The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) requires up to seven support canines for its Border Patrol K9 Center in El Paso, Texas. This is a 100% small business set-aside, firm-fixed-price purchase order. The evaluation is a phased best-value tradeoff, where technical factors like breed conformance and a 60-day availability are pass/fail gates, followed by a ranking based on open order status, past performance, and price. The selected contractor must deliver the canines to El Paso, Texas, for a final medical, physical, and behavioral evaluation, bearing all transportation costs. Canines that fail this final evaluation must be retrieved by the contractor at their own expense within seven days.