Scientific Research Services in Colombia
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- VIR260016_N3239825PA048U00001
- Agency
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Naval Supply Systems Command
Department of the Navy, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- 8(a) Sole Source
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- PSC
- R499 Support- Professional: Other
- Place of performance
- Zaragocilla Colombia
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command issued an 8(a) sole-source procurement notice for scientific research services in Colombia, with proposals due July 24, 2026. The notice restricts competition to a single 8(a) contractor and sets forth a justification for the sole-source award.
The Naval Supply Systems Command is procuring continued research support for "Characterization of the infectious causes of acute febrile and exanthematous illness in Latin America," a protocol executed by NAMRU SOUTH in collaboration with regional health ministries and institutions. The work focuses on pathogen mapping in the Colombian Caribbean, a region where Colombian military contingents deploy in close partnership with U.S. forces and within the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.
The procurement contemplates awarding to the Laboratory of the Doctorate in Tropical Medicine at the University of Cartagena, which has served as an active research collaborator since 2012. The University of Cartagena operates within Colombia's State University System and houses the UNIMOL research group, which has demonstrated the financial, human, technical resources, and organizational controls required to execute protocol deliverables. The justification emphasizes that the institution has built irreplaceable local trust and relationships with communities essential to study continuation; changing the collaborating institution would undermine study viability. Work is performed in Colombia under NAICS 541715 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences).
Notice text
The Protocol entitled “Characterization of the infectious causes of acute febrile and exanthematous illness in Latin America” is being performed by NAMRU SOUTH in collaboration with a number of Ministries of Health and institutions in the Americas.
Colombia is a key country in South America having access to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and has a strategic location in the USSOUTHCOM region as the transition between South and Central America.
In Colombia, the Laboratory of the Doctorate in Tropical Medicine from the University of Cartagena, belonging to the network of the State University System (SUE in Spanish) of the Colombian Caribbean and the research group UNIMOL (Unidad de Investigación Molecular). This research group has participated as an active collaborator since 2012 and demonstrated over these last 13 years to have the appropriate financial, human, and technical resources, experience, and organizational controls needed to accomplish all deliverables set forth in this protocol.
The mapping of important pathogens in the Colombian Caribbean region, where Colombian military contingents often deploy in close cooperation with the United States, makes this collaboration between NAMRU SOUTH and Cartagena University essential.
During the years of collaboration, Universidad de Cartagena has built an infrastructure of medical doctors and other field personnel, who have earned the trust and confidence of the local people and made the study possible. It is vital for the study that this network of trust be maintained, and it will not be possible if the collaborating institution were changed.
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