Explosive Odor Detection Canines - Personnel Screening
Past New Requirement Updated
- Agency
-
Secret Service
Department of Homeland Security
- Solicitation expected
- Estimated value
- $1,000,000 to $2,000,000
- Set-aside
- Total Small Business
Forecast facts
- Anticipated award
- Through
- NAICS code
- 115210 Support Activities for Animal Production
- Place of performance
- Washington, DC, DC
- Forecast number
- F2026074121
Forecast details come from DHS's Acquisition Planning Forecast System. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
The U.S. Secret Service is establishing a five-year IDIQ contract on a firm fixed price basis for explosive odor detection canines to perform personnel screening at protected venues, with solicitation release on July 1, 2026, and award on August 1, 2026. The requirement specifies Labrador Retrievers no older than two years of age, trained to detect explosive odors and possessing hunt drive, prey drive, social temperament, courage, independence, and intense toy possession; vendors may provide both trained and untrained canines, with all candidates subject to vendor pre-selection testing and government selection testing at the vendor's facility.
The estimated award value ranges from $1 million to $2 million, with the initial one-year term running from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2027, followed by four one-year ordering periods extending through July 31, 2031. Performance occurs in Washington, DC. The contract is set aside for total small business. Contracting Officer Jade Gaston can be reached at jade.gaston@usss.dhs.gov or (202) 503-6876, and Requirements Contact Melissa Chabot at melissa.chabot@usss.dhs.gov or (305) 240-3691.
Forecast text
The objective of this procurement is to establish a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for personnel screening canines meeting the requirements outlined in this scope of work. The IDIQ will be effective for one year from date of award, with four ordering years.
The offeror shall provide the following items, “exact match only”, to Category I – Explosive Odor Detection Canines – Personnel Screening.
1. Category I Explosive Odor Detection Canines – Personnel Screening
These canines will be trained to perform daily explosive odor detection at USSS protected venues.
2.1 Additions / Exceptions to General Requirements
• Age: Must be no older than 2 years of age
• Breed: Labrador Retriever
2.2 Requirements for Trained Detection Canines:
a. They must possess the following characteristics at a high level:
• Hunt drive
• Prey drive
• Social temperament
• Courageous temperament
• Independent temperament
• Intense Toy possession
b. Canines must be selection tested, defined as having passed initial selection testing by an employee of the vendor before being presented to the solicitor for solicitor selection testing.
c. Canines must pass selection testing by the solicitor at the vendor’s place of business. Solicitor must be allowed to take the canines off vendor property to test canines as necessary.
2.3 Requirements for Untrained Canines:
a. The canines must adhere to the foregoing requirements.
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