Evaluate Plastic Residues in Animal Foods from Human Food By-Product Processing
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- FDA-22-RFQ-1251882
- Agency
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Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Place of performance
- Maryland 20855, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This solicitation from the Food and Drug Administration seeks evaluation services for plastic residues in animal foods processed from human food by-products. The contractor will design and operate a small-scale processing system mimicking industry equipment to process 30 batches of 2kg food by-product samples, using quantum dot-embedded plastics to enable nano plastic residue analysis. The contractor must collect and ship processed samples to FDA for analysis, and provide system design documents, a methods document, and draft and final summary reports. Proposals are due April 19, 2022.
There is no set-aside designation for this opportunity. Performance will take place in Rockville, Maryland. The contractor must consider scaling the small-scale system and food waste to accommodate quantum dot films limited to 65mm widths. Deliverables are due within one base year and one option year.
Notice text
Evaluate Plastic Residues in Animal Foods from Human Food By-Product Processing
Proposals should include that this contract specifies using a small-scale human food by-product processing system (hereafter referred to as the ‘system’) that mimics the type of equipment used in industry. In order to make quantification of Nano plastics possible, input food waste packaging will be replaced by plastics embedded with a known concentration of quantum dots. The system should run approximately 2 kg batches of human food by-products to minimize the use of quantum dot plastics (quantum dot plastics may be diluted up to 10:1 with standard plastic to allow for larger batches if this quantity is too small to be representative). The contractor shall be responsible for running approximately 30 batches through the system and properly cleaning the system between each batch to avoid contamination. The quantum dot films provided are limited to 65mm in width, so the contractor should consider how to scale food waste, packaging, and the system to accommodate this size constraint. Following each batch, the contractor will collect samples and send the samples to the FDA for analysis.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Sol doc - FDA-22-RFQ-1251882 4522.pdf |
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