The Department of Energy will release a draft request for proposals for the Hanford Occupational Medical Services Contract between Dec. 6 and Jan. 6, the agency announced Wednesday ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
The contract is a follow-on to the six-year contract awarded to HMP Corp., located near Hanford in Kennewick, Wash., in June 2012. It was then valued at about $99 million.
The winning contractor should be prepared to provide services to more than 9,000 Hanford workers, according to the latest announcement. Workers may be employed by DOE, by its prime contractors, its small business contractors or by subcontractors. Services may include medical monitoring, worker qualification exams, first aid, following ongoing site-related health issues, employee counseling and health promotion, vaccine services, travel medicine and hearing protection. DOE said in when it released a request for information from interested companies in 2016 that the new contract could cover about $15 million of work annually.
