Prototype phage hygiene spray bottles

The Department of the Army, Materiel Command Contracting Command Orlando Contracting Center (ACC Orlando) seeks prototype phage hygiene spray bottles, with proposals due November 9, 2026. The set-aside is Total Small Business. The GovTribe AI summary of the attached PWS describes a sole-source contract with Desert in Bloom of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for DEVCOM Soldier Center, while the solicitation's structured record lists only Total Small Business.

Place of performance is Natick, MA 01760. The contractor must design, develop, test, and produce custom topical spray formulations containing the PhageShield bacteriophage cocktail, which the government furnishes at 1E10 PFU/ml cosmetic-grade purity along with testing data. Formulations must maintain phage titer above 1E8 PFU/ml after thermal stability testing at 45C for 4 weeks, meet cosmetic regulatory requirements, and exclude any component that inhibits phage activity. Deliverables are three formulation iterations of 50 ml each with component data sheets and testing (thermal stability, preservative challenge, and ingredients toxicity), followed by 100 prototype bottles (50 containing phage, 50 formulation only) in 15 ml opaque HDPE bottles with fine mist pumps and 360-degree delivery. All formulations and prototypes ship overnight on ice (2-8C) via FedEx.

The contract is a firm-fixed-price completion contract with a 10-month period of performance from award. Payments are 25% on Iteration 1 delivery with preliminary testing (weeks 4-8), 40% on Iterations 2 and 3 with completed regulatory testing, including Human Repeated Insult Patch Test results (weeks 16-28), and 35% on final delivery of the 100 bottles (weeks 36-40).

The NAICS code is 541714, Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology), and the PSC is AJ12. The notice was posted October 28, 2026.