A new notice seeks genomic consulting on resistant bacteria in animal intestines, adding an animal health strand to a wider effort on emerging infectious diseases.
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A new prior information notice from the Hainan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs seeks consulting services for genomic sequencing and analysis of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in animal intestines, adding an animal health strand to a World Bank-funded programme on emerging infectious diseases in Hainan Province.
Published on 11th December 2025, the prior information notice for genomic sequencing consulting services outlines plans to commission specialist support for work on antimicrobial-resistant bacterial communities in animal intestines. The notice sits under the China Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention, Preparedness and Response Project, which is supported by the World Bank across Hainan Province.
The scope described is compact but precise. The selected consultant will be expected to organise sample logistics and then deliver both metagenomic sequencing and whole-genome resequencing of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial communities. The buyer describes this as consulting services rather than a simple testing contract, indicating that advisory and analytical work are part of the requirement alongside laboratory sequencing.
By concentrating on intestinal samples from animals rather than human subjects, the notice ties agricultural practice directly into the wider emerging infectious diseases agenda in Hainan. Metagenomic sequencing and whole-genome resequencing are both referenced, showing that the authority wants information on antimicrobial resistance from more than one genomic angle within the same set of samples.
The sequencing plan does not stand alone. In June 2025, the Hainan Provincial Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control issued a contract notice for laboratory equipment procurement for the Hainan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, seeking proposals for a range of specialised instruments under the same World Bank project.
Laboratory capacity has since been broadened beyond the provincial centre. On 9th July 2025, the Hainan Provincial Market Supervision Administration launched an equipment procurement for laboratories serving branches of the Hainan Academy of Inspection and Testing, as part of a World Bank-funded project addressing emerging infectious diseases. A day later, on 10th July 2025, the Hainan Provincial Administration for Market Regulation issued a contract notice to buy further laboratory instruments, including an Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography system and a Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry system, again linked to the same initiative.
Facilities are being upgraded as well as re-equipped. On 8th August 2025, the Hainan Provincial Bureau of Disease Control published a prior information notice for laboratory renovation consulting services at the Hainan Boao Research Hospital, seeking supervision of renovation and upgrades to specific floors under the World Bank-funded infectious disease prevention and response project. In November 2025, the Hainan Provincial Disease Control Bureau followed with a notice for epidemic disease risk consulting services, covering on-site sampling, pathogen detection and data analysis to strengthen epidemic and tropical disease risk monitoring systems in the province.
The new animal intestinal sequencing consultancy, arriving in December 2025, therefore lands in a landscape where both instruments and surveillance systems are being reinforced, and where genomics can be connected to existing clinical and field observation capacities.
A recurring feature of the Hainan programme is the explicit use of the One Health concept, which appears across several notices. On 11th August 2025, the Hainan Provincial Bureau for Disease Prevention and Control issued a prior information notice for health sector talent training services, asking consultants to assess health sector talents and design a training programme based on the One Health concept in Hainan Province.
Border agencies are being drawn into the same framework. On 11th October 2025, Haikou Customs released a prior information notice for biosafety hub capacity enhancement, seeking consultants to develop and organise a training programme for the Haikou Customs Biosafety Hub, with a focus on One Health concepts and customs operations.
Environmental monitoring of antimicrobial resistance is progressing alongside the animal intestinal work. On 4th December 2025, the Hainan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment issued a notice for the Hainan infectious diseases project, seeking consulting services to prepare an implementation plan for a monitoring system that tracks antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in Hainan’s aquatic environment, aligned with the One Health framework.
Wildlife and avian disease are another part of this cross-sector picture. In July 2025, the Hainan Provincial Forestry Department sought wildlife disease surveillance consulting to support the design of a terrestrial wildlife disease monitoring system in China. That was followed on 9th October 2025 by a prior information notice from the Hainan Provincial Forestry Bureau commissioning environmental management plan consulting for the wildlife disease monitoring project, ensuring compliance with World Bank standards and addressing potential environmental and social impacts.
On 15th October 2025, CITIC International Tendering Co., Ltd. added a more targeted strand with its prior information notice on an avian influenza risk intervention project, seeking consulting services to establish integrated avian influenza risk intervention demonstration sites in Hainan Province under the World Bank project. These wildlife, avian, aquatic and animal-production activities, when set alongside the new intestinal sequencing procurement, show how the One Health label is being translated into a diverse set of consulting and infrastructure contracts.
Strengthening governance and skills is a parallel priority within the same programme. On 3rd September 2025, EID Hainan PMO published a prior information notice seeking an individual financial management consultant for the World Bank's Hainan project focused on emerging infectious diseases, with responsibilities for a range of financial tasks and compliance. On 9th October 2025, the Hainan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a similar prior information notice, inviting qualified individual consultants to provide financial management services as part of a World Bank project aimed at addressing emerging infectious diseases.
The skills agenda extends beyond finance. On 3rd September 2025, the Hainan Provincial Development and Reform Commission released a prior information notice for infectious diseases consulting services, covering the compilation of key technologies and products for infectious disease prevention, the establishment of a talent pool and the organisation of an exchange meeting under the World Bank-funded project. This sits alongside the One Health-based training programme for health sector staff and the customs biosafety hub capacity-building work described in other notices.
Public communication around antimicrobial drug use is also being directly procured. On 28th July 2025, the Hainan Provincial Drug Administration published a contract notice for public awareness campaign services, commissioning non-consulting services for public outreach on antimicrobial drug management, including the design and printing of promotional materials and the production of educational content. Against this backdrop, the animal intestinal genomic sequencing consultancy becomes one of several tools for addressing antimicrobial resistance within the wider emerging infectious diseases programme.
The new prior information notice on genomic sequencing and analysis of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial communities in animal intestines marks a shift towards more specialised analytic work within the Hainan project. Earlier notices from June 2025 onwards have focused on equipping and renovating laboratories, training staff, mapping technologies, building financial systems and designing monitoring frameworks; the December 2025 notice points to a more narrowly defined package of genomic consulting services.
As a prior information notice, it signals upcoming procurement activity rather than setting out full tender conditions. The detail still to come will show how this animal-focused sequencing work is expected to connect with aquatic antimicrobial resistance monitoring, epidemic and tropical disease risk surveillance, wildlife disease tracking and public outreach on antimicrobial drugs. For observers of public-sector procurement around emerging infectious diseases, Hainan’s 2025 notices offer an example of how laboratory services, consulting and communications can be assembled into a single, multi-agency programme.
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