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HDTRA1-07-R-0004

ATTACHMENT 1

BIOLOGICAL THREAT REDUCTION INTEGRATING CONTRACT (BTRIC)

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

1.0 BACKGROUND. With passage of the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar established a farsighted program that responds to the threat of proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and related expertise and knowledge. This legislation designated the Department of Defense as the executive agent for the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program. The President delegated management authority to the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary selected the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) as his executive agent. Over the past 15 years, Congress has authorized over $5.9B to the CTR Program for reducing the proliferation risk of WMD, particularly technology, expertise, and materials, through foreign assistance. Of that $5.9B, $432M has been allocated to the Biological Weapon Proliferation Prevention (BWPP) Program and its successor, the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP). The BTRP mission is to counter the threat of bioterrorism and prevent proliferation of biological weapons technology, pathogens, and expertise at the source in Eurasia.

2.0 OVERALL PROGRAM OBJECTIVES. Central to this contracting effort are the means to satisfy the following DoD strategic goals and objectives:

2.1 Prevent the theft, sale, diversion, or release of pathogens by strengthening biosafety and biosecurity measures at BW-capable facilities.

· Assist Eurasian states in meeting and maintaining biosafety measures consistent with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) and U.S. DoD biosecurity standards

· Identify and analyze biosafety and biosecurity requirements

· Counter direct action operations (outsider threats)

· Counter theft of pathogens or technology (insider threats)

· Reduce risk of accidental release of pathogens

· Develop, execute, and manage projects to consolidate pathogen collections at well-protected sites

· Promote biosafety/biosecurity awareness and education to enhance personnel security, maintenance, safety monitoring, and pathogen control.

2.2 Strengthen and enhance recipient state’s existing surveillance systems

· Deploy modern diagnostics to eliminate need for multiple reference pathogen collections

· EDPs consolidated into secure repositories at the Central Reference Laboratories (CRLs)

· Facilitate transfer of pathogens and data to U.S. DoD and other USG entities (e.g., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

· Enhance recipient state diagnostic response capability via trained epidemiological teams equipped to investigate outbreaks of human and veterinary especially dangerous infections

· Enhanced reporting, detection, and response capability for human and veterinary EDPs

· Provide dedicated transport for samples and pathogen consolidation

2.3 Prevent proliferation of dual-use biological weapons expertise to rogue states and terrorists.

· Prevent proliferation of BW expertise

· Encourage higher standards of openness, ethics, and conduct

· Integrate former BW scientists and institutes into the Western scientific community

· Transfer pathogen strains and reports to the United States

· Engage scientists in developing medical countermeasures to biological threats

3.0 CONTRACT OBJECTIVES. The two primary components that support the BTRP objectives are: (1) Biological Safety/Biological Security/Threat Agent Detection and Response (TADR) system and (2) Collaborative Biological Research (CBR). It is an objective of this program that the contract provide for the integration, planning, organizing, management, reporting, maintenance, logistics, training, construction, technical expertise, and sustainment support resources necessary to establish these components in recipient states. Specifically:

3.1 Project integration and management. Integrate and synchronize all BTRP country-level efforts to effectively and efficiently accomplish BTRP program objectives. This includes the seamless integration of other United States Government (USG) partners’ efforts, other contractor requirements, and recipient state efforts.

3.2 Application of system engineering discipline. Employ systems engineering discipline to establish the aforementioned BTRP components in recipient states, including renovation or construction of biological safety level 2 (BSL-2) and biological safety level 3 (BSL-3) capable laboratories.

3.3 Maintenance, Training, and Sustainment Plans. Establishment of the required and cost-efficient integrated logistics system that allows operational sustainment of fielded systems through the stand-up period and for approximately 3-5 years after full operational capability (FOC) is reached. All sustainment requirements associated with the country-level BTRP project must seamlessly transition to the recipient state.

4.0 Management Objectives: The management objective is to allow the offeror the maximum flexibility to innovatively and cost-effectively manage the program schedule, performance, risks, warranties, subcontracts, and data to support the program objectives. The offeror should be able to fully lead the project execution efforts to include the necessary cooperation and coordination with the recipient state governments, compliance with regulations, and consideration of established recipient state human and veterinary health procedures and organizational structure. Another objective is to maintain clear government visibility into the program schedule, performance and risk.

5.0 Constraints: Contract and program objectives must be accomplished within the schedule constraints and maximize use of cost-effective solutions.

5.1 DTRA will supply resources or services to the contractor in varying amounts including: subject matter experts, training material, procurement of supplies, construction designs, shipping of material and customs clearance, and information and technology components.

5.2 All BTRP efforts are interrelated and are implemented concurrently. New projects commence with a Project Definition period not to exceed one year. This period is used for assessments, requirements generation and any Immediate Safety and Security Upgrades.

5.3 TADR projects are planned as four-year efforts following the initial assessment and requirements generation.

5.4 Individual CBR projects are normally planned for three-year duration.

5.5 Sustainment, where necessary, is planned for five years following the date of completion.

5.6 Select Agent pathogens are consolidated within one national level repository in each country.

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