The Department of Energy on Thursday solicited bids for an Occupational Medical Services provider for the 10,000-plus federal and contract workers at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
Questions on the final request for proposals should be sent to the DOE’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center by 11:59 p.m. on March 2. Bid packages are due by April 10, according to the solicitation cover letter.
HPM Corp. is a longtime incumbent and its current $152-million contract, awarded in January 2019, is currently scheduled to end Dec. 31.
A Thursday memo to Hanford employees, viewed by Exchange Monitor, said the current HPM Corp. contract includes an option to extend services through the end of 2025. But it does not provide coverage for workers at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant supporting Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste operations.
Extending coverage to staff of the vitrification plant being built by Bechtel will be a feature of the follow-on contract, according to the employee memo.
The new contract could run up to seven years, according to DOE’s request for proposals. There would be a three-year base period, including a transition period of 60 days, and two option periods of two years each.
DOE kicked off its market research for the new contract in July 2022. In March of last year, HPM agreed to pay about $3 million in fines and restitution to the feds for submitting false information to the Small Business Administration in support of a loan under the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program.
Meanwhile, procurement watchers around the weapons complex are still waiting for the big prize to be awarded at the DOE’s former plutonium production facility near Richland, Wash. The Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract, potentially worth $45 billion over 10 years, has been rumored to be imminent since before Christmas.
