APHIS Animal Lab Testing 2016-2021

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services established a Master IDIQ for animal laboratory testing on August 1, 2016, with a shared ceiling of $20 million and a last date to order of November 30, 2021. Ordering under this vehicle closed over four years ago; the IDIQ is no longer active for new task orders.

Over five years of operations, the vehicle executed 658 task orders with a combined potential value of $19.9 million, of which $19.9 million (100 percent) has been obligated. Annual task-order volume peaked in 2019 at 136 orders and declined gradually thereafter, finishing at 109 orders in the final year (2021). The most recent task order award occurred on September 2, 2021.

Work contracted under this vehicle centers on animal health testing conducted by university-based laboratories, including avian influenza surveillance (Atlantic Flyway and Pacific Flyway), antimicrobial resistance (AMR) susceptibility testing, classical swine fever (CSF) and African swine fever (ASF) diagnostics, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie, and foreign animal disease (FAD) screening. Task orders range from under $1,000 to approximately $185,000, with most orders in the $5,000 to $30,000 band for diagnostic testing campaigns.

University of California, Davis led the awardee list with 55 orders valued at $4.7 million combined potential value, followed by Iowa State University of Science and Technology with 45 orders and $2.6 million, and Colorado State University with 32 orders and $2.3 million. These three universities and a smaller set of regional land-grant institutions (Regents of the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin System, Michigan State University, and others) captured the work; the top five primes held 60 percent of combined potential value. All 658 task orders were competitively awarded without set-aside designation.

Customer demand was concentrated within APHIS itself: the Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services division placed 370 orders ($10.8 million) and Veterinary Services placed 273 orders ($8.5 million), together accounting for roughly 98 percent of all task-order volume.