RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) recently rated the Hanford tank farms contractor’s fiscal year (FY) 2016 performance as “very good” in an award fee determination scorecard.
December 29, 2016
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WRPS personnel often wear multiple layers of protective clothing and use respiratory protection while working. Here they prepare to remove waste from one of Hanford’s oldest single-shell radioactive waste storage tanks, C-104, and transfer the waste to a newer, safer double-shell tank.
RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) recently rated the Hanford tank farms contractor’s fiscal year (FY) 2016 performance as “very good” in an award fee determination scorecard. Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) earned about $9.6 million, or 77 percent, of the nearly $12.5 million total fee available for the evaluation period.
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.
ORP recognized WRPS for meeting or exceeding most award-fee performance criteria. The contractor met overall cost, schedule and technical performance requirements.
Notable achievements included processing more than 4 million gallons of wastewater at the Effluent Treatment Facility; retrieving waste from the double-shell tank AY-102 to the limits of standard sluicing technology; and preparing AY-102 with the new sluicer systems to support the next stage of retrieval.
The scorecard lists eight special-emphasis areas, and WRPS received “excellent” ratings for two of them: supporting nuclear safety and the Direct Feed Low Activity Waste and Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) commissioning.
ORP rated the contractor “very good” for conduct of operations; cost and management performance; quality assurance; environmental regulatory management; and safety program implementation. WRPS received a “good” rating for managing single- and double-shell tank systems.
WRPS is responsible for safely managing Hanford’s 56 million gallons of nuclear and chemical waste in 177 underground tanks, and preparing the systems to feed waste to WTP for vitrification.
View the scorecard here.