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Source: Inside The Pentagon
March 22, 2001
Pg. 2
Defense Department Assessing Possible Vaccine Production Facility
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is reviewing a recently
completed life-cycle cost estimate report for a government-owned,
contractor-operated biological defense vaccine production
facility, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
According to a program official, the Joint Vaccine Acquisition
Program office at Ft. Detrick, MD, contracted with industry to
put together the report, which includes an assessment of facility
and operational requirements as well as life-cycle costs over 26
years. The estimate used a generic site model meeting basic
criteria because the site selection process has not begun, this
source said.
The report is intended as a starting point to prepare a GOCO
facility budget estimate and includes "estimates for the design,
construction and qualification in accordance with U.S. Food and
Drug Administration standards, and operation of a GOCO vaccine
production facility for Department of Defense biological defense
vaccines," the spokesman said.
The report will not be released due to "procurement-sensitive"
information, but some of its details will be addressed in a
forthcoming report to Congress on DOD's overall biological
warfare defense vaccine research and development programs,
required by the fiscal year 2001 Defense Authorization Act, the
spokesman said. The report will be submitted with budget
justification materials after President Bush submits his complete
budget request for FY-02.
Assuming the facility is approved and funding provided, DOD will
begin a "fair and open" site-selection process.
In a Jan. 26 letter to Rumsfeld, Senate Armed Services personnel
subcommittee Chairman Tim Hutchison (R-AR) expressed concern that
the site-selection process is already favoring a site in
Maryland. Hutchison referred to a DOD study conducted in the
early 1990s that found a site in Pine Bluff, AR, most suitable
for a GOCO facility.
"Despite a body of evidence from the early [1990s] indicating
that the Pine Bluff Arsenal in my home state of Arkansas would be
the most cost-effective location to build such a facility, I have
always supported what I believed was the department's intention
to conduct a new, fair and open site-selection process,"
Hutchison wrote. "However, I am now concerned that there are
those within the department who have sought to take advantage of
the confusion surrounding the transition between administrations,
by attempting to steer site-selection process towards facilities
in Maryland."
He asks that Rumsfeld review the site-selection process to ensure
fairness and promises to get the committee involved if the
secretary fails to do so.
The Pentagon began considering the move last summer in light of
concerns about anthrax vaccine shortages and the fact that
Lansing, MI-based BioPort, the sole manufacturer of the vaccine,
is still awaiting approval from the FDA to resume production
following the renovation of its facility (Inside the Pentagon,
July 13, p2). Last fall, Vicky Armbruster, joint program manager
for biological defense, said funding had been added to the FY-02
to FY-07 future years defense plan to examine the feasibility of
building a GOCO vaccine production facility (ITP, Nov. 2, 2000,
p7).
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