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Title: Office of Inspector General audit report on Hanford Site contractors` use of site services

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/329536· OSTI ID:329536

The mission of the Department of Energy (DOE), Richland Operations Office (Richland) is to safely manage legacy wastes, develop and deploy science and technology, and provide stewardship of the Hanford Site (Site). To accomplish its mission, Richland employs five prime contractors: Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc. (Fluor Daniel); Bechtel Hanford, Inc. (Bechtel); Battelle-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Battelle); Hanford Environmental Health Foundation; and BNFL, Inc. Some of these contractors, in turn, have multiple subcontractors. To operate the Site, contractors need to use numerous services, such as telecommunications, copying, and photography. Richland directed certain contractors to provide these and other services, called site services, for the benefit of all contractors and assigned responsibility for optimal utilization of these services to its Site Infrastructure Division (SID). In the past, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) audited several site services, including groundwater monitoring, protective forces, personnel security clearances, railroad services, and fleet management. These audits disclosed that the services were not always efficiently and effectively coordinated. Therefore, the objective of this audit was to examine other site services, principally those provided at least in part by Fluor Daniel, to determine if contractors were acquiring services already available.

Research Organization:
Office of Inspector General, Office of Audit Services, Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Inspector General, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
329536
Report Number(s):
WR-B-99-03; ON: DE99002161; NC: NONE; TRN: AHC29912%%54
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Mar 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English