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Homeland Security

DTRA Selects Five Firms for Potential $4B under Bio-Threat Reduction Effort

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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

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The Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has selected five firms to compete for task orders for up to 10 years under the Biological Threat Reduction Integrating Contracts (BTRIC) program. So far just one company, Black & Veatch has received a task order, in this case $175.3 million for an initial five-year period to include options. The other selectees are a team comprised of URS Corp. [URS], Bechtel Corp., CH2M Hill, and AECOM Government Services. Each company is guaranteed $500,000…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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