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GAO-09-878R 1 (2009-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanou0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im AF_ G A 0 T M WAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 24, 2009 Congressional Committees Subject: Project BioShield Act: HHS Has Supported Development, Procurement, and Emergency Use of Medical Countermeasures to Address Health Threats This report formally transmits the attached briefing in response to section 247d-6c of title 42 of the United States Code. (See the enclosure.) The statute required the Comptroller General to examine the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) support for the development and procurement of and authority for the emergency use of medical countermeasures to address chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats to public health, and provide the results to the congressional committees by July 21, 2009.' HHS determines priorities for medical countermeasure procurement based on those chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents that have been identified by the Department of Homeland Security as posing a material threat to the U.S. population that could affect national security. We provided the briefing to staff of your committees to satisfy the mandate reporting requirement on July 20, 2009, and July 21, 2009. We are sending copies of this report to the Secretary of HHS, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and other interested parties. In addition, the report will be available at no charge on the GAO Web site at http:/www.gao.gov. If you or your staff have any questions regarding this report, please contact me at (202) 512- 7114 or bascettac@gao.gov. Contact points for our Offices of Congressional Relations and Public Affairs may be found on the last page of this report. Key contributions to this report were made by Karen Doran, Assistant Director; George Bogart; Natalie Herzog; Amy C. Leone; Roseanne Price; and Rasanjali Wickrema. Cynthia A. Bascetta Director, Health Care Enclosure 'The Project BioShield Act of 2004 also required the Comptroller General to review other issues, such as how HHS has used its Project BioShield Act contracting and purchasing authorities to enhance its ability to procure medical countermeasures, and the extent to which HHS has sufficient internal controls in place to manage and ensure the appropriate use of its Project BioShield Act contracting and purchasing authorities. We address these issues in a separate report, Project Bioshield: HHS Can Improve Agency Internal Controls for Its New Contracting Authorities, GAO-09-820 (Washington, D.C.: July 21, 2009). GAO-09-878R Project BioShield Act

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