WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), the cleanup contractor for EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), earned $338,205, or 75 percent of a possible $450,694 award fee for the September 2016 to March 2017 performance period, according to a.
CHBWV has a highly incentivized contract, with 80 percent of the fee tied to cost and schedule performance. The subjective award fee accounts for 20 percent of the available fee. In addition to receiving $338,205, the contractor earned over $5.9 million of provisional schedule fee for achieving the high-level waste canister relocation 13 months ahead of schedule.
For the subjective fee, CHBWV met the majority of performance goals and objectives for the period, according to the scorecard. WVDP rated the contractor “very good" for safety, health, and quality management; business administration; and project management. CHBWV exceeded many significant criteria and met the contract’s overall cost, schedule, and technical performance requirements. CHBWV received a “good" rating for environmental and regulatory compliance, outpacing significant criteria and meeting overall cost, schedule, and technical performance requirements.
Each year, EM releases information relating to contractor fee payments - earned by completing the work called for in the contracts - to further transparency in its cleanup program.
According to the WVDP scorecard:
CHBWV obtained a “very good" safety, health and quality management rating for accumulating more than 2.4 million safe work hours, receiving a DOE Voluntary Protection Program Star of Excellence award, and other factors.
The company received a “very good" business administration rating, primarily because of its continued commitment to cybersecurity and display of strong community support by organizing a food drive. The contractor also focused on improving small business goals, and implemented a new records management system. But improvements are needed in the accuracy of reporting.
The “very good" project management rating was primarily due to CHBWV’s improved project planning and coordination that went into achieving two significant milestones (read about them here and here). But the scorecard noted there was still room for improvement.
“While DOE commends CHBWV on the significance of these accomplishments and the effective project planning and coordination approaches that supported them, additional efforts are needed to ensure support organization program needs and requirements are better integrated in Facility Disposition Planning," according to the scorecard.
Several factors led to CHBWV’s “good" environmental and regulatory compliance rating. The company generally submitted “good" quality, well organized routine reports on time, and continued to foster positive relations with regulators.
Once the site of the first and only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the U.S., WVDP is now an environmental cleanup and waste management project located about 35 miles south of Buffalo. The cleanup is conducted by EM in cooperation with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
View CHBWV’s scorecard.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
