URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) earned an award fee of $3.28 million of a potential $3.78 million for the second half of fiscal 2017 under its cleanup contract for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee, according to a scorecard from DOE’s Office of Environmental Management.
The document, dated Dec. 5, 2017, said UCOR was issued a project management incentive of roughly $1.6 million (which represents 77 percent of more than $2 million available), along with more than $1.68 million (99 percent of $1.7 million) for its cost and schedule incentive. The review period covered April 1 to Sept. 30, 2017.
UCOR’s overall score of 77 percent on the three-part project management incentive qualified as “very good” on the DOE scorecard. By claiming 99 percent of its cost and schedule incentive, UCOR was issued a “high confidence” rating.
On the project management incentive, UCOR scored 63 percent on its work planning control and worker safety, quality management category that accounted for half (50 percent) of its total PMI performance weight. The 63 percent performance score represented a “good” rating.
UCOR did much better, scoring a 91 percent or “excellent” rating, on environmental protection. Likewise, it scored the same on project management and business systems. Environmental protection and project management/business systems each accounted for 25 percent of the total project management incentive weight.
“UCOR has continued to execute the scope under the East Tennessee Technology Park contract very well,” DOE noted in the scorecard. UCOR has operated 30 months without a notice of violation from an outside regulatory agency and it has gone 69 months without a reportable environmental spill.
UCOR did, however, continue have problems with crane operations. Likewise, it failed to do needed maintenance on the White Oak Dam, which resulted in the dam gates being out of service for an extended period of time.
UCOR is the AECOM-led group that hold the decontamination and decommissioning contract for the East Tennessee Technology Park, among other work at Oak Ridge. It holds a $2.7 billion contract that was signed in 2011. The company is in the final four-year option that runs through July 2020. During the first half of fiscal 2017, UCOR received 92 percent of its possible award fee for the six-month period that ended March 31, raking in roughly $3.6 million.
