An Amentum-Jacobs team won about $27.5 million or 85% out of a potential $32 million from the Department of Energy for its remediation of the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee during the final seven months on the job.
The DOE released the URS CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) award Oct. 3 for the period spanning Nov. 1, 2021 through May 22, 2022. The outgoing contractor also won 95% of its subjective fee, $11.1 million out of $11.6 million during the period.
The UCOR team was deemed “excellent” on three of the four areas that comprise the project management incentive total, allowing the contractor to take home roughly 92% or almost $5.9 million out of a potential $6.4 million there.
UCOR’s lowest score was 75% or “good” for operations management, with the contractor making $1.4 million in fees out of a potential $1.9 million in that category, according to the scorecard.
The contractor pocketed its entire $5.2 million of its cost and schedule incentive.
In a statement announcing the fee scorecard Tuesday, DOE lauded the cleanup contractor for recovering 1.7 tons of mercury from Alpha-4, bringing the total amount of mercury recovered at the 500,000 square feet building to about 7 tons. The agency also said UCOR awarded 73% of its subcontracts to small businesses, beating its goal of 65%.
The old UCOR, URS CH2M Oak Ridge, pocketed 98% of its fee during the prior review period at Oak Ridge. Amentum led the old team with CH2M, which was eventually acquired by Jacobs.
The newly-constituted United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR), made up of Amentum, Jacobs and Honeywell International, won the 10-year potential $8.3 billion contract almost a year ago.
“It was important for UCOR to keep our brand recognition,” UCOR chief of staff Samantha Dolynchuk said of the decision to preserve the incumbent contractor acronym at Oak Ridge. Dolynchuk made the remark during a panel discussion on cleanup at the Energy Technology & Environmental Business Association conference Wednesday in Knoxville, Tenn.
Honeywell International was added as a partner in part because of its experience cleaning up the Onondaga Lake Superfund Site in New York state, Dolynchuk said.
Editor’s Note: The story was modified Oct. 11 to reflect that the scorecard covered the former UCOR and to correct certain figures.
