The Hanford Site’s occupational medicine services provider earned 91.75 percent of the fee available for fiscal 2017, the Department of Energy announced last week. Kennewick, Wash.-based HPM Corp., a small, woman-owned business founded in 2001, earned $311,950 of the available $340,000.
The contractor’s performance was rated about the same as in fiscal 2016. Then it earned 91.7 percent of the available fee, or $302,610 of $330,000 available.
The Energy Department listed no significant deficiencies for fiscal 2017 on its one-page scorecard. But it said there was room for continued improvement in communication with the Hanford workforce.
Significant achievements for the budget year ended Sept. 30, 2017, included “superior health and well-being support for the Hanford Site,” the scorecard says. Customer and patient satisfaction trended upward, DOE said. HPM Corp. also was proactive in its coordination with other site contractors to set schedules for occupational health appointments and activities that minimized lost work time.
HPM Corp. is on a final year of its six-year Hanford contract, awarded in June 2012 with a value of $99 million. A draft request for proposals was issued in December and updated in January for the next occupational medicine contract. Registration for the community day held in January drew representatives from 13 companies or organizations, including HPMC.
The new contract is not reserved for small businesses, as was the last contract award in 2012. The proposed contract, with a base period of three years and two possible extensions to seven years, has an estimated value of about $120 million. Services are expected to include providing first aid and medical exams.