LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - The cleanup contractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) earned approximately 90 percent of the available fee for fiscal year (FY) 2016, according to a recently released award fee scorecard from the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA).
Los Alamos National Security (LANS) received $9,133,211 of an available $10,095,919 fee. In its scorecard, EM-LA noted the contractor’s strong performance in several areas, including:
* Safely managing and storing nitrate salts as part of legacy waste management;
* Preparing to treat the nitrate salts;
* Addressing chromium contamination in the regional aquifer, and associated schedule recovery;
* Cleanup of Technical Area 21, the site of Manhattan Project and Cold War work, and legacy waste sites at the Los Alamos Townsite; and
* Partnering to establish effective relationships to efficiently complete work.
Contractor award fee evaluations determine what will be paid based on performance against stated objectives in accordance with annual award fee plans. EM releases information relating to contractor fee payments to further transparency.
The LANS scorecard summarizes objective award fee and performance-based incentives earned by the contractor for the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Bridge Contract. Its FY 2016 milestones include installing an extraction well for the chromium project and modifying the Waste Characterization Remediation and Repackaging Facility, where remaining containers of remediated nitrate salts will be treated beginning in spring 2017.
Areas to improve include project controls, cost estimating, and contract management; emergency and issues management; procedural compliance; and quality assurance, according to the scorecard.
The EM-LA mission is to safely and efficiently complete the cleanup of legacy contamination and waste resulting from nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear research at LANL.
View the scorecard.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
