Defense Studies Regional Center Service Support

The Near East South Asia Center was launched in October 2000, the NESA Center’s mission is to enhance stability in the Near East and in South Asia by providing an academic environment where strategic issues can be addressed, understanding deepened, partnerships fostered, defense-related de-cision-making improved and cooperation strengthened between military and civilian leaders from the region and the United States.

2 Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies and William J. Perry Center

 The Center builds on the strong bilateral relationships between the United States and countries in the NESA region by focusing on a multilateral approach to addressing regional security concerns and issues. It is designed to meet the knowledge needs of

national security professionals by providing a forum for rigorous examination of the challenges that shape the security environment of the region. The Center provides a focal point where na-tional decision makers can gather to exchange ideas and explore tools for cooperative problem solving.

 The overall objective of the bridge contract is to continue the following services with-out interruption and satisfy NESA needs in providing program management support service:

 The contractor shall provide Regional Centers technical, academic, logistics, and ad-ministrative support services for seminars, conferences, symposia, and other academic events (Track II) as well as extended and quick turnaround analytical research materi-als.

 The Contractor will perform technical, academic, logistics, and administrative support services tasks that will enable the appropriate regional center to achieve its current pro-grams and other programs that will be developed. On request but at least bi-monthly, provide the status of financial obligations approved by the Government (CORs) to sup-port all categories of programs via a contractor’s independent system.

 Provide a stand-alone mechanism to rapidly verify the accuracy of financial infor-mation to include detailed invoices with all supporting documents in accordance with USG regulations.

 Provide appropriately skilled personnel as required to meet service objectives. The Contractor will also provide bilingual (where required), technically-qualified operation and support analysts with experience in international policy to support the detailed planning, organizing, coordinating and execution of numerous research efforts, confer-ences, and seminars to include Track II programs worldwide as specified in each RCs program plan.

 The contractor must maintain the technical skills and financial means to provide support per the contract terms.

Awarded contract HQ0034-20-P-0048 to unknown vendor for unknown amount on 2020-03-27.