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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 16,1999 PSA#2433Director, USAMRAA, 820 Chandler St, Fort Detrick, MD 21702-5014 B -- BIOLOGICAL ARMS CONTROL TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES POC Sherry
Regalado,(301)619-2376; Michael Younkins, (301)619-2503 B -- Biological
Arms Control Technical Support Services due o/a 29 October 1999. POC
Sherry Regalado, Contract Specialist,(301)619-2376; Michael Younkins,
Contracting Officer,(301) 619-2503. This is a notice of intent to
negotiate and incorporate two (2) annual cost-plus-fixed-fee option
periods into Contract DAMD17-99-C-9044 on a sole source basis to
Southern Research Institute, 2000 9th Ave South, Birmingham, AL
pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), only one responsible
source. This project is one that is currently on-going and it is not
anticipated that the text of a protocol for the Biological Weapons
Convention (BWC) will be completed prior to September 2001, despite
earlier optimistic government predictions. Contractor personnel provide
critical technical expertise in the area of BWC negotiations and serve
as current members of the U.S. delegation to the ad hoc group for
negotiation of a BWC protocol. Services include on-call support for the
development of Army biological weapons (BW) arms control negotiations
positions; coordination and development of impact assessments of
current and expected BW cooperative threat reduction program
activities; and support the development of an analysis of BACTO's
programmatic mission and support requirements. Contract deliverables,
in addition to basic services heretofore described, include monthly
status reports, BWC protocol negotiating sessions analyses; RDT&E
impact analysis results, and BACTO programmatic mission & support
requirements analysis. Personnel qualifications include providing
senior analysts, junior analysts, technical analyst support with
expertise in BW arms control negotiations and implementation, knowledge
of the Army BW arms control agreement implementation, database
management systems and operating environments. Any offeror purporting
to be able to furnish the services in accordance with the conditions
stated herein must submit a written response demonstrating such
capability. A facility clearance of TOP SECRET is required. Also,
senior personnel proposed must possess a current DoD TOP SECRET/TSI
security clearance. No solicitation document currently exists. See
Number Note 22. Posted 09/14/99 (W-SN379884). (0257) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0018 19990916\B-0005.SOL)
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