Regents Of The University Of Minnesota

Regents of the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Division, doing business as Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, is a U.S. state government entity and educational institution that operates as a prime contractor providing specialized animal disease diagnostic testing and surveillance services to the federal government on a full-and-open basis, with no set-aside participation.

The laboratory delivers highly specialized veterinary diagnostic testing services, grounded almost entirely in delivery orders placed under a single $20 million indefinite delivery contract awarded by USDA APHIS in September 2021 through August 2026. Core capabilities center on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) testing, classical swine fever (CSF) and African swine fever (ASF) testing, influenza A virus subtyping (IAV-S), antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial susceptibility (AMR-AST and AMR-WGS) analysis, and foreign animal disease (FAD) testing. Representative delivery orders include a $1 million HPAI testing award in June 2025 for emerging cattle disease surveillance, a $750,000 HPAI testing order in February 2023, a $400,000 HPAI testing delivery order in March 2025, and a $300,000 HPAI testing award in January 2026. Work is performed across the laboratory's facilities in St. Paul and Ames, Iowa. Individual task orders under the master IDC have ranged from $3,600 to $1 million, with firm fixed-price structures applied uniformly across the portfolio.

Customer concentration is extreme and agency-specific. The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) accounts for 100% of the combined potential value of recent awards — 127 awards across three APHIS sub-offices (Veterinary Services, Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services, and Headquarters) totaling $55.4 million in combined potential value. APHIS Veterinary Services alone holds 94 awards ($34.2 million combined potential value), followed by APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services with 33 awards ($21 million combined potential value). Ancillary work includes two small ($10 thousand combined) Forest Service regional orders for water sample analysis. This narrow customer base — a single agency — underpins the entire federal footprint.

The vendor operates as a prime on 99% of recent awards and sits on no named government-wide vehicles, GWACs, BPAs, or multiagency contract platforms. Task order work flows exclusively through APHIS-owned or APHIS-administered vehicles: the parent $20 million single-award IDC (43 task orders, $4.7 million combined potential value), a prior APHIS Animal Lab Testing contract running 2016–2021 (48 task orders, $1.1 million combined potential value), and three agency-specific blanket purchase agreements (Blanket Purchase Agreement AG6395B130084 with 22 task orders valued at $8.3 million, BPA AG6395B090017 with 18 task orders at $1.2 million, and BPA AG6395B070039 with 4 task orders). Award activity has remained steady — averaging 9 awards annually over the past five years (2022–2026 range: 6 to 14 awards per year) — with 10 awards ($479 thousand combined potential value) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore exposing the vendor to recompete risk on a modest scale.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures minimal SCI-reportable invoicing. FY2023 shows $3,000 in invoiced federal service revenue across 0.1 FTEs; FY2024 carried no SCI-reportable activity. The SCI population (two records) is too sparse to characterize workforce scale, rate posture, or subcontractor engagement reliably; SCI's $150,000 reporting floor excludes most of the laboratory's delivery-order work, which centers on diagnostic services goods and specialized testing capacity rather than service contracts in the SCI-reportable sense. The source carries no evidence of meaningful subcontracting; the prime-vs-sub split and grant sub-award record indicate the laboratory operates as a provider of direct services rather than as a prime coordinator of subcontractor networks.

Federal grant presence is minimal: two sub-awards to the laboratory appear in the source — a March 2026 sub-award modification under George Mason University and a December 2023 participation in a Temple University study involving telephone-administered dietary recalls with mothers of preschool-aged children. These grants appear tangential to the core animal diagnostic mission and suggest occasional research participation rather than a material grant revenue stream.