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With Recovery Funds CBP Begins Soliciting for NII Equipment

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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

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Customs and Border Protection has issued three pre-solicitation notices and one solicitation for various kinds of Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) systems to be purchased using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The solicitation for large scale, high energy X-Ray systems (Sol. No. HSBP1009R2590, Respond by Aug. 12) is for 11 mobile systems for various ports of entry in Texas, California and New Jersey. The pre-solicitation for five high-energy fixed X-Ray systems (Sol. No. HSBP1009Q2613) is available only to contractors…

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