The Savannah River Site’s security contractor earned $5.66 million out of a possible $5.92 million, or 95.5 percent, of its performance award fee for fiscal 2016. The Department of Energy highlighted Centerra-Savannah River Site’s efforts in keeping employees safe and cutting costs in the 12-month period ending Sept. 30.
Contractors earn award fees each year by completing a task on time, or for implicit performance in areas of cost, schedule/timeliness, quality and business relations, according to DOE. In its latest scorecard, Centerra-SRS was judged in four areas: protective force operations and training; protective force management and support; environment, safety, health, and quality assurance; and cost control.
The company received praise for operating at a “high level of effectiveness and competency,” including conducting 47,627 random vehicle inspections and discovering 102 prohibited and controlled articles (PACA). The contractor also completed 274 incident reports of site entry/exit violations at the SRS perimeter points and issued 644 traffic citations.
DOE lauded Centerra for briefing employees on safety procedures prior to conducting work and keeping employees out of harm’s way while executing operations. For example, Centerra-SRS employees have worked more 2.1 million hours without a lost-time injury, dating to April 13, 2015. In fiscal 2016, the contractor incurred four recordable injuries, which breaks down to a total recordable case rate of 1.08. The rate is significantly lower than the Department of Energy average of 2.3.
Finally, Centerra was credited for completing the fiscal 2016 performance at $2.1 million under its budget of $105.2 million. Examples of cost-cutting measures include filling shift vacancies with on-duty personnel, which reduced the need to cover those vacancies with overtime. Reducing overtime resulted in $30,000 in cost savings.
The department noted minor deficiencies, such as performance failures by individual workers who did not follow company procedures. No further details on the deficiencies were provided, but DOE did state that management assessed each one and “administered discipline as warranted.”
Centerra’s current three-year, $316. million contract runs through September 2017.
Mark Bolton, Centerra’s general manager, wrote in a prepared statement that he appreciates the confidence DOE has placed in the company. He added: “We are proud of our achievements during the rating period, but our goal is continuous improvement. We will identify opportunities for improvement and strive to enhance performance in those areas to meet future challenges in support of ongoing missions at SRS.”
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the management and operations contractor for the DOE facility, received $39.2 million in award fees for fiscal 2016, 87 percent of the total possible $44.9 million, as reported last week in Weapons Complex Monitor. That amount covered both its Environmental Management (EM) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) missions. The company — a partnership of Fluor, Honeywell, and Stoller Newport News Nuclear — holds a $9.5 billion contract due to expire on July 31, 2018.
The Department of Energy as of Friday had not yet posted the award-fee scorecard for Savannah River Remediation, the site’s liquid waste management contractor. The roughly $4 billion contract for the AECOM-led partnership, which also features Bechtel, BWX Technologies, and CH2M, expires on June 30, 2017.
