State Dept's Panic Ebola emergency medical evacuation contract

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Emergency Aeromedical Evacuation Services ------------------------------------- Solicitation Number: SAQMMA14C0155 Agency: Department of State Office: Office of Acquisitions Location: INL Support Copy the URL [above] for a direct link to this page. Notice Details Packages Original Synopsis 3 Sep 2014 2:13 pm Solicitation Number: SAQMMA14C0155 Notice Type: Justification and Approval (J&A) J&A Statutory Authority: FAR 6.302-2 - Unusual and compelling urgency Contract Award Date: 18 Aug 2014 Contract Award Number: SAQMMA14C0155 Synopsis: Added: 3 Sep 2014 2:13 pm This requirement is in response to the Department of State's diplomatic mission overseas to provide movement of emergency response personnel into and out of hazardous/non-permissive environments and medical evacuation of critically ill/injured patients, including those infected with unique and highly contagious pathogens. This is an immediate response to the Ebola virus crisis. [This USD 4.9 million dollar contract covers 3 evacuations per month for 6 months. According to details in the Sole Source (Rush) Justification (which is well worth reading), the 2 jets available were equipped with biosafety level 4 isolation units under a CDC contract years ago and mothballed in 2011 when the CDC could no longer afford to keep them on standby. But they are not permitted to over-fly or land in most [mainland] European Union countries or refuel there and are only authorized to refuel at a US base in the Azores islands (which belong to Portugal, in the Atlantic Ocean, 900 miles west of it and 2000 miles east of the USA) and, therefore, can only be used to evacuate people to military bases in the USA. Mexico, Japan, UK, Canada, UAE, UN and WHO had already tried to get exclusive contracts with the provider. However, an EVD-infected British nurse was evacuated from Sierra Leone in a similarly equipped Royal Air Force jet to a military air base in the UK and transferred to an isolation suite in a UK hospital. He recovered. See ProMED-mail post "Ebola virus disease - West Africa (152): region, UN, Nigeria, tests 20140906.2753389." - Mod.JW]





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