The Department of Energy is gathering market data about the next Occupational Medical Services contract for the Hanford Site in Washington state, the agency announced Thursday.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced the request for information in a press release and on the government procurement website, SAM.gov. Thursday’s notice said the Office of Environmental Management lacks specific timelines at this point for any “contemplated recompete” but wants to give the process ample time.
Incumbent HPM Corp. is currently in the middle of a potential seven-year term as occupational medical provider, under a deal worth $152 million and awarded in 2018. In late December, HPM’s initial three-year base period expired and DOE picked up the first of two potential two-year option periods. As things stand now, HPM is assured of staying on at least through December 2023. It could stay on through 2025, if DOE exercises the second option.
Founded in 2001, the Kennewick, Wash.,-based HPM Corp. has been working at Hanford since 2004, initially as a small business subcontractor to the site services provider, according to the HPM website. The incumbent won its first occupational medical contract at the former plutonium production site in 2012, according to the website.
In addition to providing onsite healthcare services to Hanford’s roughly 10,000 workers, the follow-on occupational medical services provider should be capable of “24/7” operations, DOE said.
DOE’s Hanford manager, Brian Vance, has repeatedly said Hanford is evolving toward round-the-clock operation with the commissioning of the Waste Treatment Plant anticipated by the end of 2023.
Responses from interested parties should be emailed no later than Thursday, Aug. 4, to [email protected].
HPM Corp. provides onsite medical services, which over the past couple of years has included vaccinations against COVID-19.
But HPM got into legal hot water after making false statements to secure a COVID pandemic-related loan from the Small U.S. Business Administration. In late March, HPM agreed to pay nearly $3 million in fines and restitution to the federal government.
The HPM payments resolved criminal and civil liability in connection with a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loan in April 2020, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Eastern Washington.
HPM owners and executives Holly and Grover Cleveland Mooers, who agreed to pay $250,000 penalty from their own funds as part of the settlement, did not appear to be listed Friday on the HPM “leadership” webpage, though references to Ms. Mooers appeared elsewhere on the site.
