Amendment 00001, posted 9/10/2026, incorporates Q&A and four new solicitation attachments. The work supports the Livestock Arthropod Pest Research Unit’s Cattle Fever Tick Research Laboratory at USDA Moore Air Base near Edinburg, Texas, a satellite of the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory in Kerrville, Texas. The facility conducts biosecure research for the USDA Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program, using tick colonies, cattle study barns, and pastures. Modernization is required to keep pace with an expanding research program serving the U.S. livestock industry and stakeholders. The current perimeter fence around pasture 7 allows wildlife onto the facility, risking loss of quarantine zones.

The Livestock Arthropod Pest Research Unit (LAPRU) includes the Cattle Fever Tick Research Laboratory (CFTRL), a satellite facility operating under biosecurity at the USDA Moore Air Base near Edinburg, Texas. This lab supports the USDA Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program by developing technologies to keep the U.S. free of cattle fever ticks. Unique assets include tick colonies, barns for studies with artificially infested cattle, and pastures for field-like research conditions. However, modernization is needed because the current perimeter fence around pasture 7 is allowing wildlife onto the facility, risking the loss of quarantine zones. The work is performed at the Edinburg, Texas facility.