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Army Plans $485M Contract Vehicles for CBRNE Support

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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

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The Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has issued two Requests for Proposals (RFP) for two five-year 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 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, acquisition, analysis, experimentation,…

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