http://www.lamonitor.com/content/congress-eyes-lab-waiver
Last year, the lab received a one-time waiver from the NNSA fee determining official — principal deputy administrator
Congress eyes lab waiver
Neile Miller, who left the post at the end of June.
In a letter from former Los Alamos Site Office head Kevin Smith to Miller, the award term (one-year contract extension) originally was not granted. But at the bottom of the letter, the no was scratched out with a notation, “Yes. Contingent on LANS letter attached.”
Miller also granted a one-year waiver to Lawrence Livermore lab.
Miller adjusted Livermore’s fee in December, giving the lab contractor an extra $541,527 to help it meet the 80 percent mark.
The trade publication report said, House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) said the agency did itself a “tremendous disservice” by granting the award term extensions when he briefly raised the issue at a subcommittee hearing on DOE project management in March.
And Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, called the decision “unbelievable” during a panel hearing in April.
“Why would contracts be extended if people are not performing?” Feinstein asked.
Last year, the lab received a one-time waiver from the NNSA fee determining official — principal deputy administrator
Congress eyes lab waiver
Neile Miller, who left the post at the end of June.
In a letter from former Los Alamos Site Office head Kevin Smith to Miller, the award term (one-year contract extension) originally was not granted. But at the bottom of the letter, the no was scratched out with a notation, “Yes. Contingent on LANS letter attached.”
Miller also granted a one-year waiver to Lawrence Livermore lab.
Miller adjusted Livermore’s fee in December, giving the lab contractor an extra $541,527 to help it meet the 80 percent mark.
The trade publication report said, House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) said the agency did itself a “tremendous disservice” by granting the award term extensions when he briefly raised the issue at a subcommittee hearing on DOE project management in March.
And Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, called the decision “unbelievable” during a panel hearing in April.
“Why would contracts be extended if people are not performing?” Feinstein asked.
Comments
Wrong, NNSA is not broken, it is the non-management workforce at the labs that is broken and causes all the problems. It is a miracle that they can manage that bunch. One thing that could help is to have a private contractor or a LLC run NNSA.
...vs just controlled by private companies as they now are :)
I think the person above was kidding. (ie sarcasm)
The reason for extending a contract may be as simple as "it's the easy non-thinking way to do something." Which by the way is apparently how the voting public works in just marking an X on an incumbent's name on the ballot, something the Senator relies upon.
July 13, 2013 at 5:53 PM
And you're ok with that non-transparency on the part of Obama's "most transparent government in the history of the US"??
What, the real metrics need to be classified? What a joke. If the public cannot see clearly what its money is spent on, the government is a tyranny. Simple.
Both Smith and Miller are no longer in place, so it will be a new group to make the decision. It may not help the case any that PF-4 is in stand down over crit safety violations.