EM Awards Fees for Contractors’ Performance Across DOE Complex

Cleanup program recently awarded performance-based fee payments to 12 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently awarded performance-based fee payments to 12 of its contractors at sites across the cleanup complex, including Hanford, Savannah River, Paducah, Portsmouth, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Idaho, Nevada, Los Alamos, and Savannah River National Laboratory.

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

Following are the fee payments for the contractors over varying performance evaluation periods within fiscal year 2025, which ended Sept. 30:

• Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure LLC, the Hanford Field Office (HFO) tank operations contractor, was awarded nearly $26.3 million, or 94% of the available fee of about $29.1 million for the period of Feb. 24, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2025.
• HFO cleanup contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company LLC was awarded close to $18.6 million, or 96% of the available fee of almost $19.3 million for fiscal year 2025.
• HFO 222-S Laboratory contractor Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration LLC received nearly $5.1 million, or 95% of the available fee of $5.3 million for fiscal year 2025.
• Hanford Mission Integration Solutions LLC, HFO mission support contractor, was awarded close to $21.9 million, or 96% of the available fee of nearly $22.9 million for fiscal year 2025.
• Savannah River Mission Completion LLC, the liquid waste contractor at Savannah River Site, received about $966,100, or all of the available fee for Task Orders 10, 11 and 12 for fiscal year 2025.
• At Savannah River National Laboratory, management and operations (M&O) contractor Battelle Savannah River Alliance LLC was awarded about $5.7 million, or 94% of the available fee of nearly $6.1 million for fiscal year 2025.
• Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership LLC, the Paducah Site deactivation and remediation contractor, received close to $15.7 million, or 98% of the available fee of almost $16.1 million for fiscal year 2025.
• Mid-America Conversion Services LLC earned nearly $4.9 million, or 88% of the available fee of more than $5.5 million for the period of Oct, 1, 2024, to May 31, 2025, for its operation and maintenance of the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites.
• Salado Isolation Mining Contractors LLC, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant M&O contractor, received close to $15.4 million, or 97% of the available fee of about $15.8 million for fiscal year 2025.
• Idaho Environmental Coalition LLC, the Idaho Cleanup Project cleanup contractor, received over $27.6 million, or 96% of the available fee of more than $28.7 million for fiscal year 2025.
• Navarro Research and Engineering Inc., the EM Nevada Program cleanup contractor at the Nevada National Security Site, was awarded more than $1.7 million, or 95% of the available fee of nearly $1.8 million for fiscal year 2025.

Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos LLC, the EM Los Alamos Field Office legacy cleanup contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, earned over $15.8 million, or 95% of the available fee of more than $16.7 million during fiscal year 2025.