URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR), prime cleanup contractor for the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, earned a total of $6.24 million in fee awards for the first half of 2018, according to a recent performance scorecard.
The contractor garnered 100 percent of the potential $2.59 million in objective criteria fee, along with $3.65 million, or 87 percent, of a potential $4.2 million subjective fee award. Altogether, UCOR got to 92 percent of a potential $6.8 million for the period from Oct. 1, 2017, through March 31, 2018.
Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management Manager Jay Mullis outlined the award in a recent letter to UCOR President and Project Manager Kenneth Rueter. Current indicators suggest UCOR is doing well against its cleanup cost and schedule plan and “will underrun the contract price,” Mullis wrote.
The contractor came up with a new option for disposing of a large amount of mixed low-level waste in the K-1037 building, which is at least $400,000 cheaper than the past practice of “macro-encapsulation,” Mullis said. UCOR also exceeded most of its small business subcontracting goals, hitting 80 percent against the goal of 65 percent.
Areas for improvement include the Alpha 4 West COLEX equipment removal project, where factors such as mercury vapors hurt schedule and performance, according to the DOE appraisal.
The contractor was rated as “excellent” for project management and business systems and regulatory and stakeholder activity; and “good” on worker safety, health, and quality management. Overall, it was ranked as “very good” for total project management incentive. The Energy Department said it has “high confidence” in cost and schedule issues with UCOR.
In its prior scorecard, UCOR earned an award fee of $3.28 million of a potential $3.78 million for April 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2017.
UCOR is a partnership of URS owner AECOM and CH2M. It holds a $2.7 billion contract, originally signed in 2011, which runs through July 2020. The cost-plus-fee award contract includes decontamination and demolition (D&D) and environmental remediation of the East Tennessee Technology Park, as well as cleanup and waste management at other Oak Ridge Reservation sites.
