CH2M Plateau Remediation, the outgoing cleanup contractor for the Central Plateau of the Hanford Site in Washington state, earned $7.8 million of a potential $9.9 million in fees for fiscal 2019, according to a recently released scorecard from the Department of Energy.
The fee award of almost 79% for the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, 2019, could be the last full-year review for the Jacobs subsidiary. In December, the Energy Department awarded a new contract worth up to $10 billion over a decade to a joint venture comprised of Amentum, Fluor, and Atkins.
That award, however, has been protested by a Bechtel-led team to the Government Accountability Office.
The current CH2M Central Plateau agreement, which dates to October 2008, is worth $6.4 billion and is set to expire in September.
During the latest review period, CH2M won $6.2 million of a potential $7.4 million for its objective performance, and almost $1.6 million of about $2.5 million in the subjective assessment.
The Energy Department said the vendor’s significant achievements included the April 2019 completion of stabilization of the second tunnel used to hold contaminated equipment from the Plutonium Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant. About two years before that, Hanford workers discovered a partial collapse at PUREX Tunnel 1. CH2M filled both tunnels with grout for stabilization.
Another achievement was completing transfer of K Basin sludge away from the Columbia River. In June 2018, workers started removing the first batch of highly radioactive sludge from underwater storage in the K West Reactor basin. All 35 cubic yards of the material was moved by September 2019 to more secure storage at the Hanford T Plant.
One area for improvement is failure to control contamination inside the 324 Building, which led to work stoppages during ongoing remediation of the highly radioactive waste site, DOE said.
This 79% fee scorecard is on par with the 80% fee scorecard the vendor received for its fiscal 2018 performance.
