The contractor that manages the Transuranic Waste Processing Center at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee earned 97 percent of its potential award fee for a 12-month period ending in late October 2018.
The Energy Department released the fee scorecard for North Wind Solutions this week. The company took home $382,749 of a potential $394,587 for the period from Oct. 27, 2017 through Oct. 26, 2018. North Wind earned $224,914 for its technical performance, 95 percent of its potential total; and 100 percent of the possible $157,835 for its performance on cost and schedule.
The affiliate of Idaho-based North Wind Group received the high marks for the third year of its transuranic waste work at Oak Ridge. North Wind Solutions’ contract is worth $163 million over five years, through October 2020, with all options. The operation was previously run by Wastren Advantage.
North Wind’s chief task is to process, package, and ship transuranic waste to the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico for disposal.
North Wind sent 44 shipments of transuranic waste to WIPP during the review period and fared well during a recertification audit by the Energy Department’s Carlsbad Field Office.
The contractor processed 28.89 cubic meters of contact-handled transuranic waste, surpassing its goal of 27.31 cubic meters by almost 6 percent, the company noted in a news release. North Wind and its subcontractors processed 57.16 cubic meters of the more radioactive remote-handed TRU waste, missing the goal by about 3 percent, during the review period.
The fee scorecard notes the Energy Department has not yet authorized shipments of remote-handled waste from Oak Ridge to WIPP.
