Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma Cadaver Specimens

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) intends to award a sole source contract to Science Care to provide fresh or fresh frozen cadavers to the Joint Base Lewis McChord, Tacoma, WA for the purpose of conducting Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma training for Military Physicians and Surgeons as part of the Emergency War Surgery Course (EWSC). The contract requires the procurement of cadaver specimens to support military medical readiness, with a specific requirement for eight fresh whole-body cadavers per course. The vendor will be responsible for delivering the cadavers, maintaining refrigerated storage, providing serology testing and donor authorization documentation, and disposing of the cadavers after the training event. • The contract has a base period of 18 September 2026 – 17 September 2027. • The vendor must provide refrigerated transportation and on-site refrigerated storage capability throughout the training event. • The cadavers must be delivered in optimal condition and ready for use upon arrival at the training location. • Serology services must be performed in advance on each cadaver specimen to ensure no infectious diseases are present. • The vendor must provide donor authorization records for anatomical use and testing documents five days prior to shipment.