Lab Renovation, National Centers for Animal Health, Ames, IA

The U.S. Department of Agricultures Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has a project to construct a building addition that will house an Animal and Zoonotic Disease Center laboratory. This biosafety level-3 lab addition on the campus of USDAs National Centers for Animal Health in Ames, Iowa, would comprise approximately 13,500 square feet. The project includes a crawl space of approximately 6,400 sf beneath the BSL-3 lab spaces, incorporating 2,200 sf of office space, and converting another building, which houses the current Mycobacteriology lab, into a storage facility. The NAICS code for this project is 236220, with a small business size standard of $45 million. Construction will be procured on an unrestricted basis. The estimated magnitude of the project is more than $10 million