NOI RML Regional Referral Hospital Care and Isolation Unit Services

POP - 10/29/2026 to 03/28/2026 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code: 622110- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND: This is a Notice of Intent notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The Division of Safety manages the emergency response protocols for potential high-risk pathogen exposures of personnel working in high and/or maximum containment laboratories at the NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. These emergency response protocols are required to have patient isolation services at a licensed medical facility by a federal lawsuit settlement agreement and to remain in compliance with the incident response requirements of the federal select agent regulations. Having these mission critical safety services in place allows RML to continue emerging disease research in support of the mission of NIH and HHS. In 2006, the NIH awarded a contract to Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana to construct a Care and Isolation Unit to provide patient isolation services for personal potentially exposed to high-risk pathogens from the RML high and/or maximum containment labs. This was required by a federal lawsuit settlement agreement to provide patient isolation services at a licensed medical facility within 75 miles of RML [Coalition for a Safe Lab v. National Institutes of Health, CV-04-158-M-DWM (D. Mont. 2004)]. These services are also required to remain in compliance with the incident response requirements of the federal select agent regulations [42 CFR Part 73, 9 CFR Part 121, and 7 CFR Part 331]. The NIH has continued to renew this contract to continue providing these critical safety services for the past 20 years to remain in compliance with both the lawsuit settlement agreement and the federal select agent regulations. Providence St. Patrick Hospital is the only medical facility within the required 75 mile radius that can provide these specialized serv