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, graded UCOR on a three-part project management incentive and a single cost and schedule incentive for the period covering April 1 to Sept. 30, 2017.
The venture took home more than $1.68 million (99 percent of $1.7 million) for its cost and schedule incentive fee, for a “high confidence” rating.
UCOR was issued a project management incentive (PMI) fee of roughly $1.6 million, representing 77 percent of more than $2 million available and a rating of “very good.” Within the project management category, UCOR scored 63 percent for the subcategory composed of work planning control and worker safety, and quality management — which accounted for half (50 percent) of its total PMI performance weight. The 63 percent work planning and safety performance score represented a “good” rating.
UCOR did much better on environmental protection, scoring a 91 percent or “excellent” rating. The contractor scored the same ranking on project management and business systems. Environmental protection and project management/business systems each accounted for 25 percent of the total PMI weight.
“UCOR has continued to execute the scope under the East Tennessee Technology Park contract very well,” DOE noted in the scorecard. The contractor 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.
The contractor did, however, continue have problems with crane operations: A 110-ton crane had “unexplained damage” and its cable had to be replaced, DOE said. Likewise, UCOR 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, a partnership of URS owner AECOM and CH2M, is tasked with Oak Ridge Reservation cleanup including remediation of what is now the East Tennessee Technology Park. The 2,200-acre ETTP was home for decades to facilities that enriched uranium for decades for both the defense industry and nuclear power plants.
UCOR holds a $2.7 billion contract 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.
Officials at UCOR could not immediately be reached for comment.
