1.  Purpose:  This PWS details the tasks required for language and translation support services to the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies to enhance stability in the Near East and in South Asia by providing an academic environment where strategic issues can be addressed, understanding deepened, partnerships fostered, defense-related decision-making improved, and cooperation strengthened among military and civilian leaders from the region and the United States. 

Background:  The Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA), an element of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, is responsible for developing civilian and military specialists from the region of the Near East and in South Asia by providing professional seminars designed to meet the needs of mid-to-upper level military and civilian officials in the national security policy and strategy planning divisions of regional governments, to include but not limited to the Ministry of Interior; General Headquarters; Ministry of Defense; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Police Force.

Strategic Planning Seminar:  To assist NESA in fulfilling its responsibilities, contractors will provide interpretation/translation services & equipment to support a 5-day professional seminar to be hosted in the metropolitan Washington, DC and Virginia areas.

2. Scope:  The contract requires expert language interpretation, interpretation equipment, on-site support and translation service into and from the following languages:  Arabic, French and Russian.  The contractor will also provide an experienced project manager based on paragraph 5.

3.  Approach: 

Contractor shall provide interpretation and on-site support in accordance with PWS at the National Defense University (NDU).  The contractor shall provide support according to the below setup configurations.