Stakeholder involvement in DOE`s Cost Improvement Initiative for Environmental Restoration and Waste Management activities
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM) designed and executed the Benchmarking for Cost Improvement (Benchmarking) initiative to understand and control costs. The results of the nationwide survey component of the Benchmarking initiative are presented. The goal of the nationwide survey was to identify the issues that most frequently contribute to the cost growth and/or cost overruns on DOE programs and to develop a framework in which those issues may effectively be addressed. Stakeholders were asked to evaluate 26 cost issues organized in four categories (COST ESTIMATING, PROGRAMMATIC, RESOURCES, and REGULATORY) in terms of how frequently each contributes to cost growth and/or overruns. Respondents also provided written suggestions when asked to identify the single most important action that DOE could implement to reduce cost growth and/or overruns. Finally, they were asked to provide an example of a recently implemented cost-saving action that could be replicated within DOE. EM can better control programmatic costs and more effectively spend taxpayers` dollars by implementing the recommendations of the Benchmarking stakeholders and by building on its relationships with them.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 10125883
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/DIS/CP--80823; CONF-940225--35; ON: DE94006811
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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