Following a 60-day transition, Virginia-based Inomedic Health Applications took over Monday as the new occupational medical services contractor at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, an agency spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
The contractor will provide medical services to Hanford’s 10,000-person federal and contractor workforce. There are two clinics at Hanford.
In October DOE awarded the healthcare services contract, potentially worth up to $208 million over seven years, to the small, woman owned company. Inomedic Health beat out two other bidders for the follow-on contract that replaces the $152-million deal held since December 2013 by HPM Corp.
Unlike HPM, the new contractor will eventually offer around-the-clock medical services at the former plutonium production complex, although that won’t happen right away, a DOE spokesperson told Exchange Monitor by email Wednesday.
“The 24/7 occupational-medical services will be something that evolves over time, as we ramp up site operations” of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, the spokesperson said via email. The Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste part of the plant is expected to start converting some of Hanford’s less-radioactive liquid waste into solid glass in 2025, DOE has said.
