Past, present and future Helping the UK clean up

摘要

The US Department of Energy (DoE) environmental management (EM) nuclear site cleanup programme has evolved over more than 15 years from a fairly expensive, slow moving effort to predominantly commercially driven, cost effective delivery of work scopes at the several sites comprising the former Weapons Complex. The sometimes painful contracting options which developed from the contract reform activities of the DoE led to the cost plus incentive fee (CPIF) contracts of today, with the Rocky Flats and Fernald contracts being two of the best examples. The tremendous schedule acceleration and lifecycle cost reductions delivered at these two former Weapons Complex sites have been nothing short of miraculous, with results similar to those hoped for in the United Kingdom.