Navarro Research and Engineering earned 90% of its available fee – not including any incentive fee — for its environmental work at the Energy Department’s Nevada National Nuclear Site (NNSS) over a 16-month period ended Jan. 31.
That’s the crux of a recently published fee performance scorecard from the DOE Office of Environmental Management.
Oak-Ridge, Tenn.-based Navarro earned $441,556 of the available $490,618 award fee, according to the two-page document.
The brief summary lacks figures for any incentive fee over the reporting period, along with the total fee for the contractor. Both were included in the prior report on Navarro’s performance for fiscal 2018.
That document said Navarro won 92%, or $337,294 of an available award fee of $367,624, plus $605, 113 of its potential $632,113 incentive fee. In total, Navarro took home $942,407 of a total potential $998,737 for the budget period ending Sept. 30, 2018.
The just-released scorecard rates Navarro’s work as “excellent” in four areas: business relations, management of key people and subcontracts, cost control, and health and safety. It was deemed “very good” in two other areas: schedule and quality of products or service.
The Energy Department did not identify significant deficiencies during the period, although a key area for improvement is implementation of a comprehensive electronic waste profile and approval process. The agency in July 2019 acknowledged that nine improperly characterized shipments of mixed-low-level radioactive waste were sent from the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee to the NNSS for disposal from 2013 through December 2018. The Nevada site is licensed to take both low-level and mixed-low-level wastes as part of the disposal program run by Navarro.
Earlier this month, the incumbent won a new contract potentially worth $350 million over a decade to continue providing environmental services at Nevada. The current contract, valued at almost $85 million, began in March 2015 and is set to expire July 31.
In addition to managing the site’s Radioactive Waste Acceptance Program (RWAP), Navarro’s work includes groundwater characterization and monitoring, along with decontamination and demolition.
