Veolia earned about 89% of its potential fee from the Department of Energy during its last seven months of analytic work at the Department of Energy’s 222 S Laboratory at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
That is according to a fee scorecard published by DOE earlier this month. A Veolia unit took home $148,707 of an available $167,275 or 88.9% of the available award fee for testing done on highly-radioactive samples of tank waste at Hanford between Sept. 21, 2020 and April 14 of this year.
In its previous review, the company won about 93% of its total potential fee, $232,000 out of $250,000, for its testing and analytic analysis between Sept. 21, 2019 and Sept. 20, 2020.
Veolia, which obtained the contract by virtue of its purchase of Wastren Advantage in 2018, wound down its final months at the 70,000-square foot facility prior to Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration, a Navarro-led group, taking over both sample analysis and laboratory operations in April.
Veolia and its predecessor company previously handled the sample analysis under a $72 million contract that started in September 2015, while lab operation was headed by Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions as part of its tank management contract.
There are roughly 56 million gallons of radioactive waste left over from decades of plutonium production at Hanford and the 222 S Laboratory handles testing and analysis of the tank waste. DOE decided before the last procurement that it wanted to deal with one big contractor rather than two. The latest scorecard credits the outgoing contractor with an “excellent” transition.
The Navarro-led Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration last September signed a potential $389 million contract with a five-year base and two one-year options.
