UNRESTRICTED USDA Fruit Fly Eclosion and Release Facility, Moore Air Base Edinburg, TX

This solicitation announcement is for an acquisition to construct a new Eclosion and Release module to support USDAs Preventative Release Program. Construction of the USDA Fruit Fly Eclosion and Release Facility is to support the USDA Preventive Release Program for Mexican Fruit Fly sterilization. The project is located on the Moore Air Base campus in Edinburg Texas on approximately 17 acres of property immediately west of the existing facility, and water treatment plant. The Fruit Fly Eclosion and Release Facility FFERF is a one-story structure approximately 30,000 square feet in size and is designed to work in conjunction with the existing Rearing facility on the Moore Air Base campus. The building will require a newly developed building pad, new site utilities, new roadway access, POV parking, and two new aircraft staging canopies near the taxiway apron for transferring the adult flies to the aircraft. The building will consist of drilled pier foundations concrete slab on grade floor site-cast concrete tilt-up insulated walls, and precast roof tees for the roof. The work includes reverse osmosis water treatment building exhaust and air filtration systems and redundant power supply.

17 June 2023: RSVPs for the site visit to donald.c.sumner@usace.army.mil will be accepted until 0800 Central on Tuesday 20 June. Site visit will be held at 1000 Central Wednesday 21 June. 

This solicitation announcement is for an acquisition to construct a new Eclosion and Release module to support USDAs Preventative Release Program. Construction of the USDA Fruit Fly Eclosion and Release Facility is to support the USDA Preventive Release Program for Mexican Fruit Fly sterilization. The project is located on the Moore Air Base campus in Edinburg Texas on approximately 17 acres of property immediately west of the existing facility, and water treatment plant. The Fruit Fly Eclosion and Release Facility FFERF is a one-story structure approximately 30,000 square feet in size and is designed to work in conjunction with the existing Rearing facility on the Moore Air Base campus. The building will require a newly developed building pad, new site utilities, new roadway access, POV parking, and two new aircraft staging canopies near the taxiway apron for transferring the adult flies to the aircraft. The building will consist of drilled pier foundations concrete slab on grade floor site-cast concrete tilt-up insulated walls, and precast roof tees for the roof. The work includes reverse osmosis water treatment building exhaust and air filtration systems and redundant power supply.