UCOR, prime cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge site, took home about 92 perdent of its possible award fee for the six-month period that ended March 31, raking in roughly $3.6 million.
The company, an AECOM-led consortium now working under the first and final option of a nine-year contract set to expire July 31, 2020, earned more than 86 percent of its available project management incentive fee, and 99 percent of its cost and schedule initiative fee. The former category measures harder-to-quantify management acumen, while the latter grades the company against easily measurable financial and schedule milestones.
UCOR took a ding from DOE in the work planning and control; and worker safety, health and quality management segment — a project-management subcategory in which the company nabbed 75 percent of its available award fee and a “good” rating
During the award period, UCOR “experienced an event” at the site’s Molten Salt Reactor Experiment “that involved violations of … radiological control requirements,” DOE said. Last year, Oak Ridge workers discovered a 5-gallon container of low-level solid waste with a partially torn lid at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment.
However, the company drew praise for demolishing the K-731 building ahead of time and under budget and for providing “excellent support to ongoing reindustrialization efforts for the ETTP [East Tennessee Technology Park] site.”
