Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions claimed 82% of its subjective fee and 87% of its total potential fee for its tank management work at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state for the 2022 fiscal year, the agency reported Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday, DOE officials at Hanford issued the latest fee performance documents for Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, the site’s landlord contractor, and Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration, the Navarro-led contractor in charge of the 222-S lab.
With its latest marks from DOE, Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) is taking home $45.7 million in total fee out of a potential pot of $52.7 million for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, the DOE Office of Environmental Management said in its latest fee scorecard for the contractor.
That is down a bit from fiscal 2021, when WRPS took home 86% of its subjective fee and 94% of its overall fee.
This time around, DOE said it would like to see WRPS improve its “design, procurement, and construction to support increased pace of safe and efficient waste treatment” at the site. The nuclear cleanup office also wants to see better “quality assurance oversight” of subcontracts.
One of the tank management contractor’s achievements during fiscal 2022 was using the Tank-Side Cesium Removal system to pretreat 380,000 gallons of tank waste in support of the direct-feed low-activity waste program, according to DOE.
Washington River Protection Solutions began its tank operations contract, currently valued at $10 billion, in October 2008. Thanks to various extensions it is slated to run through September 2023.
Meanwhile, site services contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, won 80% of its subjective fee, $7.14 million out of $8.92 million, during the 2022 fiscal year, according to its scorecard.
Overall, the landlord contractor won almost 90% of its total potential fee for the 12-month period, $20 million out of a potential $22.3 million. That is slightly better than the Leidos-led contractor did in fiscal 2021 when it won 71% of its subjective fee and 87% of its total fee.
The DOE said Hanford Mission Integration Solutions could use better financial management and contract administration. The agency credited the contractor for coordinated site services including roads, water, power, fire protection, security, snow removal, equipment maintenance and emergency services.
Hanford Mission Integration Solutions began its $4.1-billion contract in August 2020, and is working on a five-year base period. The DOE holds options that could extend for another five years.
Finally, Navarro-led Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration won 77% of its subjective fee and 92% of its overall potential fee, roughly $2.5 million out of $2.7 million, on its fee scorecard.
A year earlier the lab manager won 75% of its overall fee and 73% of its subjectively-judged fee during its first four months on the job.
This time around, the DOE said it would like to better “corrective maintenance activities to improve operations and facility availability.” On the upside, the contractor Installed a new laboratory information management system, according to the Office of Environmental Management.
The contractor began its five-year, $512 million 222-S Laboratory Analytical Services Contract on Sept. 20, 2020. The lab manager is working on its five-year base period and DOE holds two one-year options.
