Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, the Jacobs-led deactivation and cleanup contractor at the Energy Department’s Paducah Site in Kentucky, earned 67% of its potential fee for work during fiscal 2019, or $6.97 million of a potential $10.38 million, according to a recent performance scorecard.
The vendor pocketed just over $1 million of a possible $2.33 million on DOE’s subjective review. It won $5.95 million of a potential $8.05 million of the more quantitative performance-based incentive fee.
The performance by Four Rivers, which consists of Jacobs, Fluor, and BWX Technologies, is slightly better than that cited in the prior scorecard a year ago. At that time it claimed 60%, or $5.7 million, of its potential $9.5 million fee for fiscal 2018.
This time around, the vendor team was judged “very good” on implementation of business systems, and “satisfactory” in five other categories: quality, schedule, cost control, management, and regulatory compliance.
“Overall, the contractor did not meet some of the contractual requirements and expectations” for quality, DOE said in the scorecard.
“Recurring issues include: failure to follow approved procedures, inadequate work planning and control, ineffective corrective actions to prevent issue recurrence, and inadequate control of equipment,” the evaluation adds. Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership has launched improvement programs, but more progress is needed, the agency said.
The vendor was credited for strong safety performance, community outreach, and effective management of nuclear material. It also designed and built two new cells at an on-site landfill.
Four Rivers is still in the five-year base period of a potential 10-year, $1.49 billion contract that started in June 2017. The work includes deactivating and tearing down old buildings at the former gaseous diffusion plant, and managing waste.
