The Department of Energy reiterated this week that solicitations for a new occupational healthcare contract at the Hanford Site in Washington state as well as a national small business contract for nuclear cleanup could both drop as early as February.
The DOE’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center provided its latest procurement update on Wednesday.
The notice came days after DOE posted portions of the final request for proposals (RFP) for a new Hanford Site Occupational Medical Services Contract, and about two weeks after its encouraged small businesses to team up in pursuit of set-aside awards for Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning and Removal at various DOE properties. This includes cleanup work at sites overseen by the Office of Environmental Management, Office of Science and the semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration.
The current Hanford Occupational Medical Services business has been held by Kennewick, Wash.-based HPM Corp. since 2012. It was awarded a new contract, valued at $152 million, in late 2018, and the contract’s current two-year extension is set to end at the end of 2023.
In late March, HPM agreed to pay $3 million in penalties and restitution for making false statements to the Small Business Administration on a loan application tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
