Construction of addition to BSL-3 lab

Sources-Sought Notice for Animal and Zoonotic Disease Center, Ames, Iowa

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service anticipates advertising a project to construct a building addition that will house an Animal and Zoonotic Disease Center laboratory. This biosafety level-3 lab addition on the campus of USDA’s National Centers for Animal Health in Ames, Iowa, would comprise approximately 13,500 square feet. The project includes a crawl space of approximately 6,400 sf beneath the BSL-3 lab spaces, incorporating 2,200 sf of office space, and converting another building, which houses the current Mycobacteriology lab, into a storage facility.

The NAICS code for this project is 236220, with a small business size standard of $45 million. The estimated magnitude of the project is more than $10 million. If your firm has experience in the construction of BSL-3 or -4 labs, experience in the commissioning of major capital improvement projects, including BSL-3 lab space, and you’re interested in this project, please provide the following information:

• your detailed experience in the construction and commissioning of BSL-3 or -4 labs of a similar size and scope;


• company name, UEI, telephone number;


• physical address, email address, website;


• business size and type of ownership (woman-owned small business, 8(a), HUBZone small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business).

Submit the above information to james.g.roloff@usda.gov by 12 p.m. CT, April 14, 2025.

There is no solicitation at this time. This request for information does not constitute a request for proposals. Submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary. The government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred.

Whether a solicitation is posted on this site is dependent on the availability of funding. Should a solicitation be posted, it will specify proposal evaluation criteria that includes offerors’ demonstrated experience in the construction and commissioning of BSL-3 or -4 labs. Offerors with this experience would be rated more favorably than those without.

Based on the responses to this sources-sought notice/market research, this requirement may be set aside for small businesses or procured through full and open competition. No feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.