BD21 Surveillance & Detection Technologies

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office seeks to acquire a Biological Detection for the 21st Century (BD21) system of systems (SoS). BD21 is intended to replace the currently fielded BioWatch system with a capability that is more cost effective, significantly timelier, and less duplicative of other agency mission spaces. The BD21 program has been approved to enter the Analyze / Select phase of the DHS acquisition lifecycle. The Analyze / Select phase aims to demonstrate technologies' performance in the context of program requirements. To support this objective, the BD21 program management office (PMO) is requesting additional information from the industry on their ability to provide technologies that would satisfy BD21 notional requirements, as listed below. The BD21 PMO will use the information acquired from this Request for Information (RFI) to support the BD21 acquisition strategy. Information and data gathered from RFI responses will also support an independent Alternative Analysis (AA) effort.

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