Reagents and consumables for wastewater and threat-agnostic surveillance. Required to perform wastewater sequencing and metagenomic sequencing…

Fisher Scientific Company LLC has been awarded contract HHSTX-6-0000401275 by the State of Texas, effective April 23, 2026. The contract provides reagents and consumables necessary for wastewater and threat-agnostic surveillance operations, specifically enabling wastewater sequencing and metagenomic sequencing directly from clinical and environmental samples without requiring pathogen isolation. These materials support a metagenomics sequencing protocol coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), and are essential for maintaining the State's participation in this collaborative surveillance initiative.

The procured consumables and reagents are classified under the NIGP category for laboratory chemicals and classified under multiple UNSPSC codes reflecting specialized chemical materials. Continued procurement under this contract is critical to sustaining the State's wastewater surveillance operations, particularly for Norovirus monitoring, and to maintain funding eligibility through the CDC-APHL coordinated program. Specific contract value, cumulative value, and performance period details are not provided in the available award documentation.