Enhancing Laboratory and Surveillance Capacity Services

RFP Issue Date: March 9th, 2026

Questions Due: March 12th, 2026 at 12:00 PM

Proposals Due: March 20th, 2026 at 11:00 AM

Proposed projects must be completed on or before June 30th, 2026

All materials associated with proposed projects must be received by June 30th, 2026

All services associated with proposed projects must be rendered by June 30th, 2026

Contract Term ends: June 30th, 2026

The government authority in West Chester, Pennsylvania seeks a vendor to enhance laboratory and surveillance capacity services. The selected contractor will be responsible for improving laboratory workforce capabilities, specifically addressing laboratory safety, accessioning, testing, and reporting. The scope also includes building expertise to support healthcare and community outbreak response, community resilience, and infection prevention and control.

Key tasks involve training and hiring staff to strengthen the epidemiology and informatics workforce, enhancing infrastructure for response to respiratory and other public health conditions, and supporting emergency operations management related to respiratory illnesses. The vendor will need to increase the organization’s capacity for timely data management and reporting, establish or enhance community-based surveillance (with a focus on vulnerable populations and high-risk exposures), and monitor daily incidence rates at detailed geographic levels to inform mitigation strategies.

Additional responsibilities include developing efficient systems for specimen submission to laboratories, rapidly scaling testing to meet demand during surges, assessing and monitoring infections among healthcare personnel, and monitoring cases and exposures to implement effective targeted mitigation in high-risk healthcare facilities. The anticipated contract period is three years.