The acquisition plan should be provided to the contract administration organization to facilitate resource allocation and planning for the evaluation, identification, and management of contractor performance risk. (a) Acquisition background and objectives.
Antibiotics are chemicals that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria and are used to treat bacterial infections. They are produced in nature by soil bacteria and fungi. This gives the microbe an advantage when competing for food and water and other limited resources in a particular habitat, as the antibiotic kills off their competition.
Most antibiotics in clinical usage are directed against bacterial cell wall synthesis, bacterial protein synthesis, or bacterial nucleic acid synthesis, which are unique in some ways to bacteria. For example, the beta lactam antibiotics (penicillin and its relatives) inhibit peptidoglycan synthesis in the cell wall.