# Cotton Analysis Request for Information

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/20140606

- Solicitation number: 20140606
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Closed. Deadline was November 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST
- Department: Department of Homeland Security
- Agency: US Customs and Border Protection
- Contracting office: Mission Support Contracting Division (70B06C)
- NAICS: 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Product or service code: B529 Scientific Data Studies
- First posted: November 14, 2024
- Last posted: November 14, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/76c665b16c904013881c17e2c4a30b0f/view

## Description

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Operations Support, Laboratories and Scientific Services (CBP/LSS) is the scientific and technical arm of CBP. CBP/LSS provides scientific services to the Office of Trade (OT) and Office of Field Operations (OFO) in support of trade priority issues such as Country of Origin (COO), Antidumping/Countervailing Duty (AD/CVD), and Intellectual Property Rights.

CBP/LSS has been collaborating with OT Trade Remedy Law Enforcement, Forced Labor Division, to address forced labor in supply chains entering the United States. CBP/LSS has chosen a light stable isotope analysis technical approach to addressing this issue and requires ongoing technical support for determining geographic origin of agricultural products. CBP/LSS is seeking services for light element stable isotopic fingerprinting of cotton for determination of geographic origin.

CBP/LSS requires a service provider who has the capability to enable CBP to isotopically fingerprint cotton, compare analytical data against a global reference database/library, and ascertain the region or country of origin, as appropriate, to assist CBP/LSS and CBP in detecting illegal goods, as well as provide technical support in this effort. CBP/LSS has built an internal capability for analyzing finished cotton goods for geographical attribution by Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) analysis.

CBP/LSS is seeking services for specialized IRMS testing methods, IRMS analytical training, access to validated statistical models, and access to a global reference database/library of known cotton to include regions subject to forced labor and other trade priority issues.

## Publications

- November 14, 2024: Special notice, due November 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST. Notice 76c665b16c904013881c17e2c4a30b0f. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/76c665b16c904013881c17e2c4a30b0f/view

## Points of contact

- Richard Kirby, richard.m.kirby@cbp.dhs.gov

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