12639525Q0202.pdf

This is a Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items issued by the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for the implementation of a Mobile Biocontainment Laboratory System. The contract is for two mobile laboratory modules to support the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory's continuity of operations: Module 1 is a BSL2 mobile laboratory and Module 2 is a BSL3 mobile laboratory.

The mobile laboratory system will be deployed at the USDA National Bio and Agro-defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, initially to support transfer of mission activities and statup of the new National Center for Animal Health in Ames, Iowa. The modules must meet stringent biosafety and biosecurity requirements and be capable of being deployed separately. Each module has specific equipment requirements, with both vendor-provided and USDA-provided components, including biosafety cabinets, PCR workstations, autoclaves, extraction robots, incubators, and computer workstations. The delivery date is set for 03/15/2026, with the system designed to support diagnostic testing of high-consequence livestock pathogens.