H--PATHOGEN TESTING, THERAPY AND FRUIT TREE DISTRIBUTIONS

The USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Plant Germplasm Quarantine Program intends to issue a sole source award using commercial and simplified acquisition procedures for the Field Testing of Pome Fruit Introductions; Therapy of Pome and Stone Fruit Introductions, the Supply of Virus-Tested Budwood and the Maintenance of Virus-Tested Fruit Trees to the NRSP-5 lab in Prosser, WA. The proposed action is to permit USDA to acquire virus-tested budwoods as well as to test pome and stone fruit importations into the United States. The proposed contract action is for supplies and services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. Numbered Note 22 applies. Any questions or inquiries must be mailed, e-mailed or faxed to the Contracting Office, to the attention of the point of contact listed in this notice. Requests by telephone will not be honored. Point of contact: Larry Nelson, Contracting Specialist, (612) 336-3225, FAX: (612) 370-2106, E-mail: [email protected]