The Department of Energy has picked up the first two-year option in its agreement with HPM Corp., the incumbent provider of occupational medical services to thousands of federal and contractors at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
The three-year base period of the potential seven-year, $152-million contract with Kennewick. Wash.,-based HPM Corp. (HPMC), was due to expire Dec. 31, according to a DOE Office of Environmental Management business document.
The first two-year option ensures HPMC’s work will extend through Dec. 31, 2023, and the value of the firm-fixed-price contract remains the same, a spokesperson for the agency said via email Monday. There is one more two-year option left on the seven-year contract that HPMC won at the end of 2018.
The work, which includes first aid and other occupational medical services, became more important in the past two years as HPMC is the on-site provider of COVID-19 vaccination shots at Hanford. HPMC has provided medical services at Hanford since 2012.
