Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Blanket Purchase Agreement for Portable Latrine and Hand-Wash Station
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summarySolicitation W911SG27QA003 is a total small business set-aside from the Army's Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Fort Bliss (Department of Defense). It plans up to five multiple-award blanket purchase agreements (BPAs: standing agreements, with each job order, called a BPA call, competed among the holders) for portable latrine and hand-wash station services at Fort Bliss, Texas, and training areas in Texas and New Mexico. The response due date is November 13, 2026, 10:00 AM Mountain Time. The ordering period runs November 23, 2026 through November 22, 2031, with no guaranteed work. More in the summary
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The notice looks incomplete: The middle of the performance work statement (about 26,000 characters), the solicitation form, the BPA terms and the three wage determinations were only partly read (their middles were left out); check those files on SAM.gov for the missing details. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Solicitation W911SG27QA003 is a total small business set-aside from the Army's Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Fort Bliss (Department of Defense). It plans up to five multiple-award blanket purchase agreements (BPAs: standing agreements, with each job order, called a BPA call, competed among the holders) for portable latrine and hand-wash station services at Fort Bliss, Texas, and training areas in Texas and New Mexico. The response due date is November 13, 2026, 10:00 AM Mountain Time. The ordering period runs November 23, 2026 through November 22, 2031, with no guaranteed work.
Who can bid (4)
- Be a small business: this is a total small business set-aside under NAICS 562991, which has a $9 million size standard.
- Be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) before award, and confirm an active registration in your quote.
- State in your quote that you qualify as a small business under NAICS 562991 and the size standard.
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- Submit completed representations, certifications and other required solicitation provisions with your quote.
How to submit: Email to SSG Lamar Barnett (lamar.t.barnett.mil@army.mil) and SSG Susette Lujardo Lahera (susette.lujardolahera.mil@army.mil). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (13)
From the version posted Oct 23, 2026.
- Serious: Total small business set-aside. Only small businesses under NAICS 562991 (size standard $9 million) can bid, and you must represent that status in your quote.
- Worth checking: Only up to five BPAs, picked by lowest price. If more than five quotes are technically acceptable, only the five with the lowest evaluated prices get a BPA, so a higher price can leave you with nothing.
- Worth checking: No guaranteed work. A BPA holder gets work only when a BPA call is issued and won, so revenue can be zero.
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- Worth checking: Must answer every BPA call, some within 72 hours. Holders must send a quote or a written decline for each call, and failing to respond to three requests for quotation (RFQs) may end the BPA.
- Worth checking: Evaluation text is unclear on how the winner is picked. One section awards to the lowest evaluated price among acceptable quotes, but the process text picks the offeror that most clearly shows capability and says past performance is a factor without saying how it counts. Ask the contracting officer.
- Worth checking: Number of BPAs differs by document. The statement of work says no less than five BPAs, but the solicitation says up to five and allows fewer or none.
- Worth checking: Safety plan and chemical safety sheets due with the quote. The statement of work wants a draft safety plan and Safety Data Sheets for proposed chemicals at proposal time, which the proposal volume list does not mention.
- Worth checking: Relocation pricing is unclear. The price sheet has separate relocation lines, but a note says the contracting officer should decide before release whether relocations go in the unit rate or a separate line.
- Worth checking: Round-the-clock service across a wide area. Services run all hours and days, with emergency response in 24 hours and pickup in 48 hours, across Fort Bliss and training areas in two states, with all transportation in your price.
- Minor: Emergency notice hours differ. One paragraph counts 24 hours from COR notice given between 0800 and 1700, while the performance table counts 24 hours from notice at any hour.
- Minor: Installation access and anti-terrorism training. Employees need Fort Bliss vetting and must finish Antiterrorism Level I training within 5 calendar days after contract start.
- Minor: Exceptions to the BPA terms can get a quote rejected. Taking exception to the BPA Terms and Conditions risks rejection, so only list exceptions you can live without.
- Minor: Either side can end the BPA on 30 days' notice. The Government can also end the BPA at any time if the contracting officer decides it is necessary.
Read from the notice and 7 attachments. Show which files.
- Combined Synopsis Solicitation_Portable Latrine and Hand-Wash Station Services. v2.pdf (read)
- Solicitation - W911SG27QA003.pdf (read)
- BPA Performance Work Statement.pdf (read)
- BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT TERMS and CONDITIONS.pdf (read)
- Fort Bliss_ El Paso wage-determination_2015-5229_Revision No. 31.pdf (read)
- New Mexico_Wage Determination_2015-5447_Revision No. 30.pdf (read)
- New Mexico_Otero County Wage Determination_2015-5455_Revision No. 32.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Rent clean, serviceable, high-wind-resistant portable latrines and hand-wash stations for military training and exercises at Fort Bliss, TX, and associated training areas and ranges in Texas and New Mexico
- Deliver, place, set up and anchor units at the grid coordinates each BPA call gives, and jointly inspect them with the contracting officer's representative (COR: the Government's technical monitor) at delivery
- Service units on a schedule (the price sheet has twice-weekly servicing lines): clean, pump, sanitize and restock, and dispose of waste and gray water at approved facilities, with a signed service ticket for each visit
- Repair or replace unserviceable units (the statement of work says within 24 hours), reset tipped units within 24 to 48 hours after notice, and inspect units after winds over 45 MPH
- Relocate units when the Government directs; the performance table requires being on station within 24 hours of notice
- Provide emergency delivery or cleaning on weekends, holidays and after hours, within 24 hours of notice, when the COR and contracting officer authorize it
- Pick up all units within 48 hours after the training or BPA call ends
- Paperwork: quality control plan (QCP: your written method for checking your own work) within 30 days after award, final safety plan within 10 days, spill prevention procedures within 15 days, a monthly report by the 5th, and a monthly summary invoice through Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF), the Army's electronic invoicing system
- Contract type
- Multiple-award blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with firm-fixed-price unit prices; each BPA call is competed among the BPA holders
- Period of performance
- BPA ordering period November 23, 2026 through November 22, 2031 (5 years); the Government may start later and end later to keep a five-year period. Each BPA call sets its own performance period.
- Place of performance
- Fort Bliss, Texas, including Biggs Army Airfield, garrison-controlled areas, training areas, ranges and other locations named in BPA calls; may also include associated Fort Bliss training locations in Texas and New Mexico
- Estimated value
- BPA ceiling of $6,500,000 for all BPAs combined; no single BPA call may exceed $1,000,000 (ceilings, not a Government estimate)
- How they'll choose
- Lowest evaluated price among technically acceptable quotes (lowest price technically acceptable). The Government plans up to five BPAs and, if more than five are acceptable, picks the five with the lowest evaluated prices.
- Offers due
- November 13, 2026, 10:00 AM Mountain Time
- How to submit
- Email to SSG Lamar Barnett (lamar.t.barnett.mil@army.mil) and SSG Susette Lujardo Lahera (susette.lujardolahera.mil@army.mil)
- Page limits
- Technical volume: 5 pages
What they'll judge offers on
- Technical Acceptability (rated Acceptable or Unacceptable): ability to meet the main requirements, including mobilization, serviceable equipment, delivery, setup and anchoring, servicing and waste disposal, relocation, emergency response, pickup, installation access and quality control
- Price: the unit price you quote for every contract line item number (CLIN: one priced line of the order) is checked for completeness, reasonableness and balance; no total price is computed to set up the BPA
- Past Performance: recorded past performance within the last three years; how it is rated or weighed is not stated
What to include when you submit
- Administrative volume: the completed and signed quotation; legal business name, unique entity ID (UEI), CAGE code and address; point of contact with phone and email; confirmation of active System for Award Management (SAM) registration; small business representation under NAICS 562991; acknowledgment of all amendments.
- Administrative volume: say whether you want to compete as a prime contractor, and name any subcontracting, joint venture or teaming arrangement; include completed representations and certifications.
- Technical volume (5 pages): cover meeting the unit serviceability rules, equipment inventory and surge capacity (minimum and maximum units), delivery, setup and anchoring on time, and scheduled servicing, repair, relocation, emergency response and pickup.
- Technical volume: cover working in Fort Bliss training areas in Texas and New Mexico, and your approach to installation access, environmental, waste-disposal and spill-prevention rules.
- Technical volume: give two examples of recent and relevant portable sanitation service experience, and state that you will provide a quality control plan within 30 days after the BPA is established.
- Price volume: complete and submit the attached Standard Form 1449 (SF 1449: the form you sign and return as your offer) with a unit price on all seven lines, in U.S. dollars, covering all costs.
- Acknowledge the BPA Terms and Conditions or list the exceptions you propose; the Government may reject quotes whose exceptions it finds unacceptable.
- The statement of work also asks for a draft safety plan and the Safety Data Sheets (chemical safety sheets) for all proposed chemicals at the time of the proposal.
- Email questions by October 30, 2026, 10:00 AM MDT; official answers come through a written amendment.
After award, you must have
- Contractor personnel must meet Fort Bliss installation access rules, including vetting, identification and vehicle registration. From BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT TERMS and CONDITIONS.pdf:
14.2 Installation Access Requirements: Contractor personnel must comply with Fort Bliss access…
- All employees needing installation access must finish Antiterrorism (AT) Level I awareness training within 5 calendar days after contract start, then annually. From BPA Performance Work Statement.pdf:
AT Level I Training. All Contractor employees, including subcontractor…
Not in the notice text
- The middle of the performance work statement (about 26,000 characters), the solicitation form, the BPA terms and the three wage determinations were only partly read (their middles were left out); check those files on SAM.gov for the missing details.
- The Service Contract Labor Standards clause is included, and wage determinations for El Paso and Hudspeth counties (Texas) and Dona Ana and Otero-area counties (New Mexico) are attached, but which job classification applies to this work is not stated in the text read.
- How many units each BPA call will need is not stated; the price sheet shows an estimated quantity of 1 per line.
- How past performance will be rated or weighed in the award is not stated.
- The Government's estimate is not stated; the $6,500,000 figure is the ceiling for all BPAs.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 562991
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to SSG Lamar Barnett (lamar.t.barnett.mil@army.mil) and SSG Susette Lujardo Lahera (susette.lujardolahera.mil@army.mil). Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 23, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- W6QM MICC-FT Bliss, Fort Bliss, TX
- Product/service code
- W085 · Lease or Rental of Equipment – Toiletries
- Business type
- Environmental & natural resources (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 562991)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The Mission and Installation Contracting Command–Fort Bliss intends to establish five Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) with eligible small business concerns for portable latrine and hand-wash station services at Fort Bliss, Texas, and associated training areas and ranges in Texas and New Mexico. Services include the rental, delivery, placement, anchoring, scheduled servicing, cleaning, pumping, sanitization, restocking, relocation, repair, waste disposal, removal, and pickup of portable latrines and hand-wash stations in support of military training, field exercises, and other mission requirements. This acquisition is a total small business set-aside under NAICS 562991, Septic Tank and Related Services, with a $9 million size standard. The anticipated BPA ordering period is 23 November 2026 through 22 November 2031; however, the Government may establish a later commencement date and corresponding expiration date to maintain a five-year ordering period. The Government will compete individual BPA calls among BPA holders. The BPA does not guarantee a minimum quantity of services or minimum expenditure. Interested vendors shall submit quotations in accordance with the combined synopsis/solicitation and all attached documents.
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