A Department of Energy Richland Operations Office review team has completed its evaluation of Fluor Daniel Hanford's performance in the first year of the Project Hanford Management Contract and identified several important areas for improvement.
Cost effectiveness remains an open issue.
However, the Fluor team's performance has not met the department's expectations for this innovative contract to cleanup the Hanford Site. The department and Fluor are in agreement on the need for improvement in some key areas including safety. The Department of Energy's review included an evaluation of Fluor's self-assessment as well as an independent assessment of the contractor's performance. The report rated Fluor's overall management and integration performance and its progress in meeting the contract goals and criteria rather than specific outputs, milestones, and performance-based incentive tasks. Performance-based incentive fees are being evaluated as part of the contractually prescribed review focused on specific tasks.