Demolition, site work and addition to a laboratory facility in Ames, Iowa. Conceptual plans call for the addition of a 13,500-square-foot laboratory facility; for the demolition of a laboratory facility; and for site work for a laboratory facility.

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. The Method of Contractor Selection has not been determined at this Time.