Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management Report 2 (2022) / Chapter Skim
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in light of information gathered during the virtual site visits described in Chapter 1. These recommendations are presented in Annex 2.A and summarized below.
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. The committee also recommended that DOE-EM structure task orders on a scale appropriate for defining intermediate outcomes, award fewer individual tasks, and apply to these task orders the same management oversight as currently required for major systems projects exceeding $750 million in total cost (Recommendation 6-2)
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6 M.J. Lilly, III, 2021, "X-333 Process Building Deactivation at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, DOE Order 413 Appendix D," slide 22, presentation to the committee, March 19, available from the National Academies Public Access Records Office.
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The decision to not proceed concurrently will delay final cleanup of Paducah, but it will also allow DOE-EM to apply any lessons learned from the Portsmouth cleanup to Paducah. The committee observed in its virtual site visits to the Nevada and Hanford sites that operations funds were being used to conduct cleanup efforts that should have been managed as projects.
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2019. Nuclear Cleanup: Actions Needed to Improve Cleanup Efforts at DOE's Three Former Gaseous Diffusion Plants.
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confirm, clarify, and expand DOE Order 413.3B to establish its applicability to all capital asset projects (not just construction and major instruments and equipment and certain cleanup projects) and all Office of Environmental Management projects, whether major systems projects or work carried out by a management and operating (M&O)
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Recommendation 5-3: The Department of Energy's Office of Envi ronmental Management should explicitly include the percentage of cost overrun or underrun in the project success metrics dashboard, rather than the current "green/yellow/red" metric, to bring more transparency to cost performance. Contract Structures Recommendation 6-1: The Department of Energy's Office of Envi ronmental Management (DOE-EM)
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DOE-EM should apply to such task orders the same management oversight as currently required for major systems projects exceeding $750 million in total cost. Contract Management Metrics Recommendation 7-1: To increase transparency in contractor per formance evaluation, the committee recommends that the Depart ment of Energy's Office of Environmental Management should ensure that the contracts it issues for cleanup work (1)
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The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) states a preference for IDIQ contracts to be awarded to multiple contractors, enabling individual task orders within the IDIQ to be competed among the qualified IDIQ awardees.
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Program Management Improvement Accountability Act (PMIAA) : Public Law 114-264, enacted in 2016, to establish standards, policies, and guidelines for program and project management in executive agencies of the federal government.
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