Paul Joseph Watson
January 21, 2014
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is looking for
contractors to supply 40-yard size dumpsters along with experts who can
dispose of contaminated bio-medical waste during a national emergency.
Image: FEMA Meeting (Wikimedia Commons).
The Request for Information (RFI) appears on the FedBizOpps website
and asks for, “feedback from waste removal industry vendors that can
potentially provide either dumpster service and/or bio-medical waste
collection and removal services during emergency response events within
the Continental United States (CONUS) area of responsibility.”
FEMA is intending to have one or more contractors
provide them with the service as part of an indefinite contract that
will initially have a base length of one year with four additional 12
month options.
The RFI states that contractors “must pick up regulated
(infectious) waste daily” and an attached question page asks contractors
if they can supply dumpsters of different sizes and how quickly they
can be supplied.
FEMA will undoubtedly claim that this is merely part of
routine preparations for national health emergencies which may or may
not happen, although that hasn’t stopped some from expressing concerns
that the federal agency is gearing up for a major pandemic such as the
H7N9 bird flu virus to hit the United States.
One website linked
the dumpster order to a previous FEMA solicitation seeking 100,000
“Doctor Scrubs” pants and shirts to be delivered within 48 hours to
1,000 tent hospitals nationwide. Contractors responded to the unusual
request by stating that they were unable to fulfil such an “armageddon
scenario.”
China is currently experiencing a surge in the H7N9
virus which has left dozens of people in critical condition, with
several deaths.
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