# HEPA Filter Testing

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/12639526q0281

- Solicitation number: 12639526Q0281
- Notice type: Solicitation
- Status: Awarded to Health Systems Sciences, LLC
- Department: Department of Agriculture
- Agency: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- Contracting office: MRPBS Minneapolis MN (126395)
- NAICS: 541380 Testing Laboratories and Services
- Product or service code: J066 Maintenance, Repair and Rebuilding of Equipment: Instruments and Laboratory Equipment
- Set-aside: Total small business set-aside
- Place of performance: Beltsville, Maryland
- First posted: August 19, 2026
- Last posted: August 19, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0f07ddfed0914c2bb74cbff1c82f37c1/view

## Description

The BSL-3 Enhanced High Containment Building and Waste Sterilization Building located at the National Center for Applied Plant Protection (NCAPP) in Beltsville, Maryland is utilized for the testing and containment of Ag Select Agents and high consequence plant pathogens. There are Fifty-three (53) in-place HEPA filters located in forty-four (44) pieces of equipment these HEPA filters contribute to the containment of the plant pathogens; the HEPA filters require annual testing and certification.

See attachment one (1) to this Scope of Work (SOW) . The Base Period in-Place HEPA filter integrity testing/certification shall be conducted during the month of performance under this contract and then within a year thereafter for each of the four option periods. All work schedules will need to be reviewed and approved by the Government for access to the facility when Ag Select Agent plant material is not being tested.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Health Systems Sciences, LLC (UEI CTKTZ794WD85)
- Contract: 12639526C0051, definitive contract
- Obligated: $11,600.00
- Competition: Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources, 8 offers received
- Link: solicitation number 12639526Q0281 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office 126395 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_12639526C0051_12K3_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- August 19, 2026: Solicitation, due August 31, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT. Notice 0f07ddfed0914c2bb74cbff1c82f37c1. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0f07ddfed0914c2bb74cbff1c82f37c1/view

## Points of contact

- Latisha Hollman, latisha.a.hollman@usda.gov

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