Funding-Non-Immunological
Detection of Bacterial Biothreat Agent Antigens;
December 31, 2010
Agency
Department
of Homeland Security
Description
The
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296) states that DHS S&T will
"support basic and applied homeland security research to promote
revolutionary changes in technologies; advance the development, testing and
evaluation, and deployment of critical homeland security technologies; and
accelerate the prototyping and deployment of technologies that would address
homeland security vulnerabilities." Pursuant to this mission, the Chemical
Biological Division (CBD) seeks technologies to prevent, detect, and defend
against a biological attack. The focus of this BAA is in the area of bacterial biothreat agent detection, surveillance, and identification
research.
The
threat of terrorist or criminal use of pathogenic organisms and their toxins
remains of great concern in the United States. In order to address capability
gaps in this area and support the Surveillance and Detection Pillar of the
National Biomonitoring Architecture (NBMA), the
development of rapid and specific detection methods are needed to provide
reliable analysis on a variety of bacterial biothreat
agents. As part of the effort to deter biological terrorism and strengthen the
capabilities of the biodefense and public health
laboratory response, it is important to explore both classic and alternative
methods and approaches to address the critical need to rapidly detect bacterial
biothreat agent antigens and toxins of interest.
This
solicitation is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) issued under the provisions
of Paragraph 6.102(d)(2) of the Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) to provide for the competitive selection of research
proposals. Contracts based on responses to this BAA are considered to be the
result of full and open competition and in full compliance with the provisions
of Public Law (PL) 98-369, "The Competition in Contracting Act of
1984." A formal Request for Proposals (RFP) will not be issued. Awards
under this BAA are planned in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010. No contract awards or
other instruments that obligate funds will be made until appropriated funds are
available from which payment for contract purposes can be made.
Please see attached BAA document for additional details.
Announcement
Number: BAA_10_02
Closing
Date: Dec 31, 2009 4:30
pm Eastern
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=4c86aa11b86830a5991328ea1c28688a&tab=core&_cview=0
Contact
Information
Janet
Herman
Phone:
202-254-6918
Jina Yu,
Contract
Specialist
Phone:
202.254.2274