Battelle has secured a position to bid for a $900m multiple-award contract, which is to provide logistics and services support to the US Department of Defence’s (DoD) Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD).
Under the terms of the joint enterprise contracted logistics and services support (JE-CLaSS) contract, the company will provide support to seven project managers within JPEO-CBD.
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The service include individual and collective protection, decontamination, and information systems, medical devices, drugs and vaccines, installation and force protection systems and demilitarisation programmes.
Battelle Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE) Defense business general manager Matt Shaw said: "We are very proud of the logistics support we’ve provided to JPEO for the past nine years, and pleased that we will have the opportunity to continue this important work with the strong team we’ve assembled.
"We’ll stick to our mission of providing innovative, responsive and cost-effective logistic support services to our clients."
Along with Battelle, the US DoD awarded the contract to nine other companies, including Aktarius, Allied Technical Services, AQuate II, Axseum Solutions, KD Analytical Consulting, Murtech, Omega Consultants, Camber Corporation and SAIC Corporation, reported DefenseWorld.
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