Central Public Health Laboratories

Central Public Health Laboratories, operating through its Central Public Health Laboratories Directorate Division, is a Council of Governments organization based in Amman, Jordan, that has been registered to receive federal awards since April 2019. The entity specializes in providing laboratory surveillance and diagnostic services to support international health cooperation initiatives, particularly in the Middle East region. Central Public Health Laboratories delivers critical public health monitoring and disease prevention services to the U.S. federal government, with a focus on infectious disease surveillance and laboratory diagnostic operations.

Central Public Health Laboratories has received three federal contract awards from the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, totaling $1,053,000 in contract value. These awards, issued between September 2021 and September 2025, are all firm-fixed-price purchase orders with no set-aside designations, reflecting the vendor's status as an incumbent contractor selected based on specialized expertise and past performance. The contracts support the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3's Viral and Zoonotic Disease Research Program and include laboratory diagnostic services, surveillance program sustainment, coordination of laboratory testing operations, and procurement of diagnostic kits. The services focus on monitoring severe acute respiratory illnesses, influenza, and other respiratory viruses across Jordan and neighboring countries. The most recent award, valued at $175,000 and effective from September 27, 2025 through September 26, 2026, continues this work as a sole-source procurement, while prior awards issued in September 2021 ($200,000, completed September 2022) and September 2022 ($678,000, completed September 2025) demonstrate the continuity and importance of Central Public Health Laboratories' contributions to U.S. Navy medical research and public health surveillance initiatives in the region.