IBC Drug & Alcohol Branch Newsletter - Special Edition

DOI Interior Business Center sent this bulletin at 04/15/2020 05:15 PM EDT

U.S. Department of the Interior
Interior Business Center
doi.gov/IBC

Special Edition

Drug testing services during COVID-19 pandemic

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a 40 percent decrease in use of our services by our customers in the month of March compared with last year. Other impacts on IBC’s and our contractor drug testing support services are as follows:

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UPDATES ON IBC SERVICES AND CUSTOMER SUPPORT

IBC’s Main Interior Building collection room in Washington, DC, remains closed until further notice.
To purposely allow employees to stay safe, the Department of the Interior has instituted delays in the notifications for DOI randomly chosen employees.
On-boarding guidance released by the Department’s Office of Human Capital has allowed the postponement of some DOI job applicants’ pre-employment drug testing. For DOI Bureaus, if you need a copy of the DOI on-boarding guidance, email us at IBCDrugTestingStaff@ibc.doi.gov

UPDATES ON CONTRACTOR SUPPORT

Abbott (provides collection and MRO services response)

Most Abbott staff are teleworking from Richmond, VA or Kansas City, MO. Their mailroom is still operational in Norfolk, VA.

All third-party collection sites were polled and asked if operations had changed/stopped.

Five percent of the collection sites contacted have reported back that they are either closed or not performing urine collections at this time.
That leaves approximately 5,000 collection sites that are still operational.
The five percent who aren’t testing have been removed as options in https://doi.edrugtest.com.

Please use https://doi.edrugtest.com to find a location. The addresses will be displayed once you enter the zip code of your donor.

Quest Diagnostics (provides laboratory analysis response)

All three Quest Diagnostics’ laboratories are still up and running.

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