SRS Watch Releases DOE’s Devastating FY 2016 Assessment of CB&I AREVA MOX Services’ Construction of Troubled Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant at Savannah River Site (SRS) – “Award Fee Determination” – linked here
“Unsatisfactory” Construction Performance Should Result in Contract Termination & Investigations into Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Mismanagement & Corruption Must be Ramped Up
DOE: Claim by MOX Services that MOX Plant Construction “70% Complete” is “Patently False”
Report “A Project in Disarray: MOX” Released Today by SRS Watch, Shows $17-Billion MOX Plant Construction Not Viable and Must be Officially Terminated; “Rework Definitions” Memo Released
Washington, DC – Savannah River Site Watch has obtained and released the scathing National Nuclear Security Administration’s Fiscal Year 2016 assessment of the performance of the contractor in constructing the mismanaged plutonium fuel (MOX) construction project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
The highly critical assessment by the U.S. Department of Energy’s s NNSA rates the construction performance of CB&I AREVA MOX Services as “unsatisfactory.” This devastating rating and the justification for it merits the termination of the project-management contract, according to SRS Watch, a non-profit public interest oversight organization based in Columbia, South Carolina and near to SRS.
The “Award Fee Determination” for CB&I AREVA MOX Services, LLC, dated December 5, 2016, was obtained on February 21, 2017 through a Freedom of Information Act request. The analysis of the construction management of the $17-billion MOX plant, which has turned into a funding and schedule black hole, is uniformly harsh and reveals persistent problems with the contractor’s poor management of project.
As the government’s report card declares, activities related to construction “during the evaluation period, the contractor’s overall cost, schedule and performance was unsatisfactory.” Of the potential $2.7 million award fee for “Integrated Project Execution” (weighted at 90% of the fee), the government granted CB&I AREVA MOX Services zero dollars ($0). Such a stunningly negative performance assessment is unheard of and may well reflect that NNSA has grown weary of the chronic mismanagement of the project and is again seeking to bring the dead-end project to an end, according to SRS Watch.
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