For the second review period in a row UCOR, the Amentum-Jacobs cleanup team at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, is pocketing 98% of its potential fee from the Department of Energy.
The contractor earned 100% of its almost $7.9 million potential fee for the first half of fiscal 2021, from Oct. 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021. It also earned more than $3 million of its potential $3.2 million in its subjective fee from DOE, according to a fee scorecard and accompanying letter from DOE Oak Ridge Environmental Management field office boss Jay Mullis.
The end result was a fee award of $10.9 million out of a potential $11.1 million. UCOR also took in 98% of potential total fee during the latter half of fiscal 2020.
The contractor’s worst ranking for the half, as cited in the Aug. 25 letter from Mullis to UCOR’s president and CEO Ken Rueter, is the $397,000 or 75% of the potential $530,000 possible for operations management.
The DOE assessment package identified only three areas of potential improvement for UCOR – transportation safety, ensuring industrial hygiene field instruments are calibrated correctly and work planning and control.
By contrast, the DOE package lists a dozen “significant accomplishments” by the contractor.
After completing the tear-down of all structures at Environmental Management’s K-25 area gaseous diffusion plant property, now known as the East Tennessee Technology Park, last year UCOR started cleanup at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex, DOE said.
UCOR, formally URS/CH2M Hill Oak Ridge, started work at the complex in August 2011 and is scheduled to stay on through January 2022, under the contract currently valued at about $3.9 billion.
The Amentum-Jacobs partnership beat its 65% small business subcontracting target by hitting almost 80%, DOE said. The document also said UCOR “received approval from the Tennessee Department of Health to be a Point of Distribution for the [COVID-19] vaccine, which enhanced access and availability for the Environmental Management workforce” as medical staff offered the shots in the clinic and at work locations.
Meanwhile, DOE in December issued a request for proposals for a follow-up environmental cleanup contract at Oak Ridge, potentially worth $8.3 billion over 10 years or more.
