FY26 DME Vendor for Fox Center

The State of Illinois, through the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), is issuing an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for nucleic acid amplification assay testing services and equipment to support operations at the IDPH Carbondale Laboratory located at 1155 South Oakland Avenue, Carbondale, Illinois. The procurement seeks a fully automated NAAT platform capable of simultaneous detection of Neisseria gonorrhea and Chlamydia trachomatis from vaginal, endocervical, throat, and rectal swabs as well as urine specimens. The vendor must provide a complete reagent-rental solution where all costs—including instrumentation, preventative maintenance, calibration, software licenses, training, shipping, and consumables—are included in reagent pricing, with collection kits invoiced separately. Key deliverables include instrument installation and operational readiness within 90 calendar days of contract execution, on-site training and validation within 10 business days of installation, bi-directional LIMS integration within 30 calendar days of installation, and ongoing service support with 24-business-hour response times for repairs. The vendor must ensure FDA clearance or approval of all systems, maintain compatibility with IDPH's STARLIMS system, and guarantee a minimum throughput of 200 specimens per eight-hour workday. IDPH estimates annual test volumes of 25,000 each for NG and CT tests and 30,000 collection kits per year, and pricing must be submitted on a per-test-kit basis as firm-fixed pricing with no additional charges permitted for quantity variances. The contract due date is December 26, 2025, with a posted date of December 23, 2025.

The State of Illinois requires all vendors to comply with 33 distinct certification requirements outlined in the Standard Illinois Certifications document, covering areas including educational loan defaults, criminal history, conflicts of interest, drug-free workplace compliance, equal employment opportunity, forced labor and child labor prohibitions, and cybersecurity compliance. Vendors must maintain comprehensive general liability insurance of $1,000,000 per occurrence with $2,000,000 aggregate and workers' compensation insurance as required by law, and all services must be performed in the United States with no subcontracting permitted. The initial contract term is five years with an option to renew for up to five additional years in any combination of one-year or multi-year periods, not to exceed a maximum total term of ten years. The vendor must provide all required financial disclosures and certifications through the Illinois Procurement Gateway at bid submission, and for contracts exceeding one year, contractors must recertify by January 1 of each subsequent fiscal year. The document does not specify a set-aside designation for disadvantaged enterprises or identify incumbent vendors, and no specific award value or budget range is disclosed in the procurement materials provided, with pricing to be determined through the competitive bidding process based on firm-fixed per-test-kit rates.