August 10, 2005

NEW CONTRACT ALLOWS BATTELLE TO PROVIDE EXPANDED HOMELAND SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENT SERVICES

Columbus,OH--The Houston Galveston Area Council's (H-GAC) Board of Directors recently awarded a contract through the H-GAC Cooperative Purchasing Program to Battelle to provide Homeland Security and Environmental Services to H-GAC end users nationwide. Currently, local governments from 18 states are members of the H-GAC program. Through this contract, Battelle has formed a project team that includes Geo-Marine Inc., P/Strada, dNOVUS RDI, and CORE6 Solutions.

The competitive award allows Battelle to contract directly with end users to provide homeland security and emergency consulting, planning and related services including: planning and preparedness; management; emergency response; and site assessment, monitoring, and restoration.

In addition, Battelle can provide environmental consulting, planning and related services including: environmental services and studies; protected species coordination; historical and archeological projects; health and quality of life studies and assessment; and additional services relating to site assessments and remediation.

Battelle is a global leader in science and technology. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, it develops and commercializes technology and manages laboratories for customers. Battelle, with the national labs it manages or co-manages, oversees 19,000 staff members and conducts $2.9 billion in annual research and development. It has hundreds of specialists in homeland security and environmental disciplines, backed by major research, laboratory, test and evaluation, modeling and simulation, training and acquisition experts.

The H-GAC Cooperative Purchasing Program is a well established program that provides government-to-government procurement services to local governments, state agencies, and qualifying non-profit corporations throughout the United States. The H-GAC Program is intended to benefit users by minimizing or eliminating the request-for-proposal requirement and accelerating service delivery via this fully competed contract mechanism.

For more information about H-GAC, visit www.HGACBuy.com, or visit www.battelle.org or contact National Media Relations Manager Katy Delaney at (410) 306-8638 or at delaneyk@battelle.org.