The cleanup contractor for the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee earned 94%, or $10.4 million, of a potential $11 million fee for its work during the six-month period ended March 31, the Energy Department said in a new performance scorecard.
In the process, URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) earned kudos from the DOE Office of Environmental Management for figuring out ways to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of record rainfall at the site during January and February.
The joint venture between Amentum and Jacobs earned 100% of its potential objective criteria fee of $4.1 million. It also earned 90%, or $6.3 million, of a potential $6.9 million in subjective fee criteria.
This marks another strong performance by UCOR, which in its last performance evaluation won 97% its potential fee for the last half of fiscal 2019, pocketing almost $20.4 million of a potential $21 million.
During the latest review period, DOE said the contractor exceeded its subcontracting goals for categories such as small, disadvantaged, woman-owned, and veteran-owned businesses. The agency did not provide any subcontracting figures. In addition, UCOR “worked closely with DOE to proactively develop comprehensive plans to operate in a pandemic environment,” according to the document.
The contractor was generally effective in its health and safety program, recording lower amounts of time lost due to worker injury or illness than DOE’s targets.
There are areas for improvement, according to the scorecard. The vendor experienced transportation problems, including an episode in which an employee at the East Tennessee Technology Park had an accident with a tractor trailer truck. There was also a technical safety requirements violation at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment facility when a valve failed and resulted in a two-hour power outage in the building.
UCOR has a $3.3 billion decontamination and decommissioning contract that started in August 2011 and is currently set to expire at the end of July — although DOE has said it intends to keep the contractor on beyond that point. The contractor has already taken down nearly all structures on the ETTP property.
