# Scientific Research Services in Colombia

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/vir260016n3239825pa048u00001

- Solicitation number: VIR260016_N3239825PA048U00001
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Closed. Deadline was July 24, 2026 at 1:00 AM EDT
- Department: Department of the Navy
- Agency: Department of the Navy
- Contracting office: Naval Medical Research Center (N32398)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: R499 Other Professional Services
- Set-aside: 8(a) sole source
- Place of performance: Zaragocilla, COL
- First posted: July 6, 2026
- Last posted: July 6, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3ecb39d4168a407b953e0f0604beb088/view

## Description

The Protocol entitled “Characterization of the infectious causes of acute febrile and exanthematous illness in Latin America” is being performed by NAMRU SOUTH in collaboration with a number of Ministries of Health and institutions in the Americas. Colombia is a key country in South America having access to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and has a strategic location in the USSOUTHCOM region as the transition between South and Central America.

In Colombia, the Laboratory of the Doctorate in Tropical Medicine from the University of Cartagena, belonging to the network of the State University System (SUE in Spanish) of the Colombian Caribbean and the research group UNIMOL (Unidad de Investigación Molecular).

This research group has participated as an active collaborator since 2012 and demonstrated over these last 13 years to have the appropriate financial, human, and technical resources, experience, and organizational controls needed to accomplish all deliverables set forth in this protocol.

The mapping of important pathogens in the Colombian Caribbean region, where Colombian military contingents often deploy in close cooperation with the United States, makes this collaboration between NAMRU SOUTH and Cartagena University essential. During the years of collaboration, Universidad de Cartagena has built an infrastructure of medical doctors and other field personnel, who have earned the trust and confidence of the local people and made the study possible. It is vital for the study that this network of trust be maintained, and it will not be possible if the collaborating institution were changed.

## Publications

- July 6, 2026: Special notice, due July 24, 2026 at 1:00 AM EDT. Notice 3ecb39d4168a407b953e0f0604beb088. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3ecb39d4168a407b953e0f0604beb088/view

## Points of contact

- Luciana Encinas, luciana.i.encinas.ln@health.mil, 5116144141
- SHAMAI CARTER, shamai.m.carter.civ@heatlh.mil

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