PANDHA-26-P-0000 046239 Security Support Services

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Europe Middle East (E-ME) has a continued cost share obligation for security services with the L. Sakvarelidze National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) at the Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research in the Republic of Georgia. The purpose of this contract is to provide cost share reimbursement for security support services throughout the Lugar Center.

In accordance with the Implementing Agreement between the WRAIR and NCDC, dated 15 December 2015, Paragraph 5, Responsibilities, subparagraph (a)(6) state that the WRAIR will contract with NCDC to pay 50% of the Lugar Center’s cost that can be directly attributed to the operation and maintenance of the facility. NCDC is the sole legal Georgian entity responsible for the acquisition and payment of security services for the Lugar Center.

As occupants of the Lugar Center, the WRAIR-E-ME is responsible for up to 50% of costs of these services. which will be based on the total amount invoiced and the payment amount to the service provider minus Georgia Value Added Tax. As the WRAIR, E-ME is not a legal Georgia entity and is only co-located at the facility, it cannot enter into a legally binding agreement to purchase and pay for security services outside of the services currently being provided by NCDC.