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Oak Ridge Contractor Earns 97 Percent of Fee for Yearlong Period

Kudos to »¨½·Ö±²¥ Solutions and the TWPC project team!

The project was recognized for “excellent†performance and featured in the DOE EM Update Newsletter on January 29, 2019, in the EM Update | Vol. 11, Issue 4

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – »¨½·Ö±²¥ Solutions, which operates EM Oak Ridge’s Transuranic Waste Processing Center (TWPC), earned nearly $383,000, or 97 percent of the available fee for the performance evaluation period of Oct. 27, 2017 through Oct. 26, 2018, according to a recently released fee determination letter.

DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) gave »¨½·Ö±²¥ a “high confidence†rating for its cost and schedule performance and “excellent†rating for its technical performance for waste processing operation, according to the letter to the contractor. OREM noted that »¨½·Ö±²¥ has continued to execute the scope under the TWPC contract very well.

EM releases information relating to contractor fee payments — earned by completing the work called for in their contracts — to further transparency in its cleanup program.

Among »¨½·Ö±²¥â€™s accomplishments during the evaluation period:

  • Processed 28.89 cubic meters of contact-handled transuranic waste, surpassing its goal of 27.31 cubic meters by 5.8 percent.
  • Completed 44 transuranic waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and underwent a recertification audit by EM’s Carlsbad Field Office without any major issues, demonstrating TWPC compliance with WIPP waste acceptance criteria.
  • Implemented an effective, well-managed safety and health program, with »¨½·Ö±²¥ safely receiving, treating, and packaging transuranic waste from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

»¨½·Ö±²¥ and its subcontractors processed 57.16 cubic meters of remote-handed transuranic waste, missing the goal by 2.8 percent. Still, »¨½·Ö±²¥ successfully met a regulatory milestone for processing 97 cubic meters of remote-handled transuranic waste ahead of schedule.

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