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The contract involves the maintenance, system review, testing, and backup services for the building automation control systems at the National Center for Applied Plant Protection (NCAPP) located in Laurel, Maryland. This facility houses BSL-2 and BSL-3 containment laboratories that manage complex plant diseases and pathogens, including Select Agents regulated under federal quarantine rules. The automation systems combine Distech Controls and American Auto-Matrix technologies and are critical for maintaining quarantine integrity and operational stability, as sensor fluctuations and control issues could compromise containment and disrupt critical pathogen testing activities. Issued by the Department of Agriculture's Minneapolis office, this contract is a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 811210 and requires specialized service to ensure continuous 24/7 operation of the pathogen testing program. The place of performance is in Beltsville, Maryland, and interested parties must respond by the specified deadline in early April 2026. The contract’s focus is on preventing failures through proactive maintenance, ensuring that the sensitive and mission-critical building automation systems operate reliably to uphold biosafety and containment standards.
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$177,230NAICS
Place of Performance
Beltsville, MD, 20705, USASet-Aside
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Submission Closed
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The National Center for Applied Plant Protection (NCAPP) in Laurel, Maryland, is a world reference laboratory for plant diagnostic testing and deals with many complex diseases and pathogens that threaten agricultural and native plants. The BSL-2 and BSL-3 buildings at NCAPP are some of the most complex buildings within APHIS. The building automation control systems at NCAPP are an integral part of the guaranteed quarantine integrity of the specialized buildings and the continuance of the containment of BSL-3AG agricultural plant pathogens and Select Agents required by 7 CFR 331.
The facility’s building automation system is a blend of Distech Controls and American Auto-Matrix requiring service, system review, checkout and system-wide backup. NCAPP experiences control sequence, and temperature/operational stability problems with intermittent sensor reading fluctuations and loss of control/program settings. The maintenance/testing control work is important to keeping this mission critical facility operating smoothly 24/7 to prevent or reduce failures which could greatly affect the operation of the pathogen testing program and possible breach in containment of the Ag Select Agents.
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