UCOR, the Amentum-Jacobs team in charge of remediation at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, earned 98% of its potential fee, almost $28 million, for its work for the final six months of fiscal 2020.
The joint venture earned 100% of its $20.8 million in objective fee for meeting deadlines and accomplishing set goals during the period between April 1 and Sept. 30, according to the fee scorecard documents released Dec. 22. The decontamination and decommissioning contractor also earned $7.16 million or 94% of a potential $7.59-million in subjective performance as determined by DOE Office of Environmental Management bosses at Oak Ridge.
The DOE rated UCOR “excellent” in areas such as project management and business systems; quality/safety culture as well as regulatory and stakeholder activity. It merited a “high confidence” rating for its cost and schedule; “very good” in its total project management incentive and “good” in its operations management.
Earlier this year, UCOR took home 94%, or $10.4 million, of a potential $11 million fee for six months of work ending March 31.
The contractor is reaping the rewards for completing what DOE calls the world’s first demolition of a uranium enrichment complex at the property now called the East Tennessee Technology Park, formerly K-25.
Over time, DOE and its contractors tore down 500 structures as part of the Oak Ridge project, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said during a ceremony in October.
UCOR began work on the existing $3.3 billion contract in August 2011. In July, DOE announced it was keeping the incumbent around at least through July 2021, and possibly July 2022 of two additional six-month option periods are exercised.
