Business Opportunities
FDA to issue grants to enhance state and local "food defense"
July 1st, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new grant program under which it plans to award up to $40,000 to each of six different state or local food regulatory agencies to develop innovative ways to integrate food defense strategies -- aimed at thwarting terrorist attacks on the food supply -- into more traditional food safety and inspection methodologies.
Biz Opps: DHS seeks medical kits for CBP
June 30th, 2008
Customs and Border Protection needs medical kits for its El Paso offices. The supplies requested include aspirin, neosynephrine, injectable dextrose, first aid Ibuprofen, lidocaine, bandages and other items. For more information, contact at 619-216-4097.
Biz Opps: Warning to drug users: We can see it in your eyes
June 30th, 2008
The D.C. Pretrial Services Agency, a federal agency that likes to boast that it is "widely recognized as a leader in the pretrial field," plans to begin using an innovative technique called "ocular testing" to determine if a defendant awaiting trial has been using cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, PCP or marijuana.
DHS infrastructure office plans a 20-minute high definition video
June 25th, 2008
Lights. Action. Camera. The Infrastructure Information Collection Division at DHS is going Hollywood.
The division, a unit of the department’s Office of Infrastructure Protection, under Assistant Secretary Robert Stephan, plans to produce a 20-minute high definition video that explains its overall role in collecting, protecting and sharing infrastructure data, as well of the roles of three of its key programs:
Brazil wants U.S. assistance to improve its seaport cargo monitoring
June 25th, 2008
Thanks to a $523,500 grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the Government of Brazil seeks technical assistance from a U.S. firm to help it improve its cargo monitoring capabilities at its seaports and develop what it calls an "Intelligent Cargo and Intelligent Network Port Logistics Chain."
Biz Op: DHS to create federally funded research center
June 23rd, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security seeks a contractor to help the agency sponsor a studies and analysis Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). The proposed FFRDC is to help DHS address its most critical issues by providing independent and objective analyses for strategic resource & support planning particularly in those areas that cut across multiple operating components of the Department, operational assessments including operational test & evaluation support, systems evaluations to include development of measurable performance metrics, and technology evaluations. The primary sponsor within DHS will be the Science and Technology Directorate. Corporate entities that operate the DHS National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) or receive an award to operate the proposed DHS FFRDC for system engineering and development institute (SEDI) will not be eligible to operate the studies and analysis FFRDC. Interested parties should contact in the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer. Respond by September 11.
CBP, ICE and more
Biz Opps: ICE seeks low security facility to hold illegal immigrant families
June 13th, 2008
Immigration & Customs Enforcement seeks up to three non-criminal family residential facilities to house a maximum population of 200 residents each, using minimal security to hold juveniles and their families in a safe and secure environment while in custody. Each facility is to be in a least restrictive, non-secure setting, but must meet all state welfare laws and education requirements related to operating family shelter type facilities. Actual locations of the facilities are to be determined. Interested contractors should contact , at 202-616-3185. Respond by June 27.
DHS, CBP and more...
GAO awards protest costs to Sysorex Federal
June 12th, 2008
A systems integration firm based in Herndon, VA, protested the award of a license plate reader contract to a Knoxville-based rival, and though the award by Customs and Border Protection was allowed to stand, the Government Accountability Office recently decided that the protesting company should be reimbursed for its legal expenses and other protest-related costs.
