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Army Plans $485 Million Contract Vehicles For CBRNE Support

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

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The Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has issued two Requests for Proposals (RFP) for two contract vehicles worth a potential $485 million combined that would permit various work done in the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives (CBRNE) area to transition uninterrupted through the acquisition process, the service said yesterday. The contracts, one an unrestricted full and open competition, the other a small business set-aside, will be used to support the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center's (ECBC) research, development,…

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