Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Santa Cruz Outpatient Clinic, New Procurement Lease Package
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) wants to lease a building for a new outpatient clinic in Santa Cruz, California (request for lease proposals, or RLP, 36C24W26R0077). Any business can offer an existing or new building with 13,000 to 15,500 ABOA square feet (ABOA: the floor area VA occupies) inside a set area. The response due date is November 9, 2026, 5:00 PM Pacific, and offers go by email, priced for a 15-year firm term and a 20-year firm term. More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 22, 2026. It moves the due date from Sep 30, 2026 to Nov 9, 2026, which is the date shown on this page. See the latest version.
AI summary Beta
Summary of another version of this notice: check what changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 31 of 43 attachments weren't read (PRE-BID Conference Information.pdf, 03. Offeror Compliance Matrix FEB 2026.xlsx and 29 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) wants to lease a building for a new outpatient clinic in Santa Cruz, California (request for lease proposals, or RLP, 36C24W26R0077). Any business can offer an existing or new building with 13,000 to 15,500 ABOA square feet (ABOA: the floor area VA occupies) inside a set area. The response due date is November 9, 2026, 5:00 PM Pacific, and offers go by email, priced for a 15-year firm term and a 20-year firm term.
Who can bid (9)
- The offering entity must be registered in SAM.gov under NAICS 531120 and must be the same entity named throughout the offer
- Offer space inside the delineated area, on no more than two contiguous floors, with the 13,000 to 15,500 ABOA square feet in one contiguous block
- Show ownership of the site and how the owner relates to the offering entity, or an agreement to acquire an interest in the property
Show all 9Show fewer
- The offered space, VA's parking and the entrance to the site cannot be in the FEMA 100-year floodplain
- Offer a building that meets the seismic standards, with the matching seismic form and certificate; a building that does not comply is considered only if no compliant offer is received
- Design team and general contractor must be licensed in California, with evidence of an existing teaming arrangement between the developer and each of them
- Provide a Phase I environmental site assessment (ESA) at the contracting officer's direction, and a cultural resources study with the offer for new construction or major ground disturbance
- The entity that owns or leases the space to VA may not use federal agency names or acronyms, such as VA, in its name
- Other than small businesses must send a small business subcontracting plan with the initial offer
How to submit: Email to the Lease Contracting Officer, J.P. Niega (JohnPaul.Niega@va.gov), and the broker, Caitlin Cunningham (CCunningham@isiwdc.com). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (10)
From the version posted Oct 22, 2026.
- Serious: You must offer a qualifying building. This is a lease of 13,000 to 15,500 ABOA square feet in a building inside a set area, so a business without a suitable property or site cannot compete.
- Serious: Price both lease terms. Offers must price a 15-year firm term with a 20-year full term and a 20-year firm term; fewer or different alternatives may be rejected as non-responsive.
- Worth checking: Site and seismic limits can end an offer. Sites in or next to the floodplain, bifurcated sites, structured parking under the building and buildings that fail the seismic standards face rejection or lower standing.
Show all 10Show fewer
- Worth checking: Licensed design team and contractor with signed teaming evidence. The offer must show a design team and general contractor licensed in California and an existing relationship with each, which a developer without that team cannot supply.
- Worth checking: No payment until the facility is accepted. There are no progress payments, so the lessor must finance design and construction, and the offer needs a financial plan with evidence of funding.
- Worth checking: Phase I environmental site assessment. The contracting officer can direct an offeror to provide a Phase I environmental site assessment, and the offeror must address any environmental conditions it finds.
- Worth checking: 20-year lease commitment. One priced option is a 20-year firm term, a non-cancellable lease for the full 20 years.
- Minor: Response due date extended by amendments. Amendment 04 sets the response due date at November 9, 2026, 5:00 PM PT; earlier documents in the package, including the RLP cover and pre-bid slides, show September 30 and October 26, 2026.
- Minor: Sign and return each amendment. Each amendment's acknowledgement page must be initialed or signed and sent in with the offer.
- Minor: Pricing must stay out of the technical volumes. Price goes only in its own volume; pricing shown elsewhere breaks the separation the RLP asks for.
Read from the notice and 12 attachments. 31 of 43 not read. Show which files.
- Santa Cruz - RFI Responses_100126.pdf (read)
- 01. GSA Template 3516 - Solicitation Provisions DEC 2025.pdf (read)
- AMENDMENT No. 1 RLP 36C24W26R0077- signed.pdf (read)
- 36C24W26R0077.docx (read)
- 0 - Santa Cruz - RLP - 36C24W26R0077 003.pdf (read)
- Santa Cruz - RLP Amendment No 4.pdf (read)
- Santa Cruz - RLP Amendment No 3.pdf (read)
- Santa Cruz - RLP Amendment No 2.pdf (read)
- ConceptualFloorPlanWithEPowerLocations_0930_26.pdf (read)
- AreaTable1.1_Rev1_093026.pdf (read)
- Santa Cruz - Pre-bid Conference Transcript.pdf (read)
- Santa Cruz - Pre-bid Presentation.pdf (read)
- PRE-BID Conference Information.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 03. Offeror Compliance Matrix FEB 2026.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- 04. Santa Cruz - Draft Lease.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 05. Agency Specific Requirements.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 06. Security Requirements FSL Secutity Level II.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 11. Past Performance List of References_FEB 2026.docx: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 16. Operations and Maintenance Plan Acknowledgement_FEB 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 17. Cert and Commitment of Energy Performance_FEB 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 19. Representation Regarding Certain Telecomm - FAR 52.204-24.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 20. GSA Template 3517B - General Clauses_April 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 21. VA Handbook 6500.6 - Contract Security_MAR 2010.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 04.A Lease Appendix - Broker Project MAY 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 04.B Lease Appendix - CA Tax MAY 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 04.C Lease Appendix - New Construction MAY 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 04.D Lease Appendix - Net of Utilities MAY 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 23. RLP Exhibit - Broker Project MAY 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 24. RLP Exhibit - New Construction MAY 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 25. RLP Exhibit - Net of Utilities MAY 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 15. GSA Form 12000 - Prelease FPLS Evaluation - Part A or Part B.docx: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 00. No Proposal_Market Response Form_MAR 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 02. Pre-bid Registration Form - FEB 2026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 07. GSA Form 1217 - Lessor's Annual Cost Statement.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 08. GSA Form 1364 - Attachment No. 1.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- 09. GSA Form 1364 - Proposal to Lease Space.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 10. VA Form 10091 - FSC Vendor File Request.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 12. Past Performance Questionnaire - PPQ_FEB 2026.docx: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 13. GSA Standard Form 330 - Architect Engineer Qualifications.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 14. GSA Form 527 - Contractors Qualifications.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 18. Offering Entity Acknowledgement Form.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 26. Seismic Offer Forms.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 22. DOL County Wage Determination CA20260018.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Lease 13,000 to 15,500 ABOA square feet of contiguous space in a modern building, existing or yet to be built, on no more than two contiguous floors; rentable space (RSF) must not exceed 20,000
- Space inside the delineated area around Santa Cruz, with on-site surface parking: no fewer than local code requires and no more than 55 secured, lit spaces reserved for VA
- Offer a full-service lease, net of utilities: the lessor pays for janitorial, landscaping, building operations and maintenance, real estate taxes and insurance, and VA pays its own utilities
- Design and build the tenant improvements (TIs: the fixtures, finishes and buildout that turn a shell into a finished clinic) after award, with a test fit or conceptual design of every room in the offer
- Provide Facility Security Level II security systems: intrusion detection, access control, surveillance, nurse call and public address
- Ready the space for occupancy within 12 months of the lease award date for existing space, or 18 months for new construction
- Provide a loading area for box trucks and an area for an ambulance pickup at a secondary or service entrance
- Keep the building maintained for the whole lease term with an operations and maintenance plan and a local building representative
- Contract type
- Real property lease (full service, net of utilities), awarded by best value tradeoff after discussions
- Period of performance
- Two price scenarios: 15-year firm term with a 20-year full term, or a 20-year firm term. Space ready 12 months after award (existing building) or 18 months (new construction)
- Place of performance
- Santa Cruz, CA, inside the delineated area of consideration in the RLP
- Estimated value
- Tenant improvement allowance of $10,400,000 to $12,400,000 depending on size offered ($800.00 per ABOA square foot), per VA's pre-bid slides. Total lease value is not stated
- How they'll choose
- Best value tradeoff: technical factors are significantly more important than price. Factors are listed in descending order of importance. VA expects discussions and may allow revised proposals
- Offers due
- November 9, 2026, 5:00 PM PT
- How to submit
- Email to the Lease Contracting Officer, J.P. Niega (JohnPaul.Niega@va.gov), and the broker, Caitlin Cunningham (CCunningham@isiwdc.com)
- Page limits
- Factor 3 Operations and Maintenance Plan narrative: 5 pages. Page limits for the other volumes are in the part of the RLP that was not read
What they'll judge offers on
- Factor 1, Technical Quality: (a) architectural concept and building design, (b) quality of site characteristics and development, (c) sustainable design and energy efficiency
- Factor 2, Offeror's Qualifications and Past Performance: (a) past performance, (b) offeror qualifications, (c) design team and general contractor qualifications, (d) project management plan
- Factor 3, Operations and Maintenance Plan: (a) interior and exterior maintenance of building and grounds, (b) routine and emergency calls: procedures and response times, (c) staffing plan, administrative procedures and quality control plan
- Factor 4, Socio-economic Status: service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) rated highest, then veteran-owned small business (VOSB), then other small businesses; other than small businesses are judged on their subcontracting plan
- Price: present value of the rent per ABOA square foot over the lease term, shown in a separate price volume
What to include when you submit
- Start with a standalone cover page, then the Offeror Proposal Compliance Matrix, which is the checklist VA uses to confirm the offer is complete
- Technical Volume I.A holds the compliance matrix, location, zoning, amenities and transit evidence, and the Factor 1 (architecture, floor plan, parking, fire and life safety, accessibility, energy), Factor 2 (past performance, design team and contractor, SF-330, GSA Form 527, project management plan) and Factor 3 items
- Volume I.B holds the Factor 4 socio-economic documents: SAM registration, SBA VetCert certification for SDVOSB or VOSB offers, joint venture papers if any, and a small business subcontracting plan if not a small business
- Include a test fit or conceptual design that shows every room in the Program for Design inside the offered building
- Keep all pricing out of the technical volumes; send it in Volume II: GSA Form 1217 (annual cost statement), GSA Form 1364 and its Excel attachment, VA Form 10091 vendor file request, broker commission agreement, and a financial plan with evidence that funds are available
- Send two versions of GSA Form 1364 and its Excel attachment, one for the 15-year firm term and one for the 20-year firm term
- Volume III holds the floodplain, seismic, hazardous conditions, environmental (NEPA) and historic (NHPA) items; Volume IV holds the entity acknowledgement, ownership evidence, signing authority, legal property description and the telecommunications representation
- Initial every page of the offer, sign every form that needs a signature, and use the same entity name, ABOA square feet, rentable square feet and parking count throughout
- Sign and return each amendment's acknowledgement page with the offer
Current contractor
No incumbent lessor is named. The pre-bid presentation describes the buy as a new replacing community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) in the Santa Cruz area; the parent medical center is the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
Not in the notice text
- Several key documents are attached to the notice but were not read: the 427-page Agency Specific Requirements package (Exhibit 5), the draft lease, the security requirements, the general clauses, the compliance matrix, and the price and qualification forms. Check them on SAM.gov.
- The middle of the request for lease proposals was not read, including the full offer instructions in Section 3, the detail of evaluation Factors 1 and 2, and the page limits for most volumes.
- The total lease value and the rent VA expects to pay are not stated; only the tenant improvement allowance is given.
- The number of past performance references, project sizes and recency rules for Factor 2 are not shown in the text read.
- The U.S. Department of Labor county wage determination CA20260018 is attached but not read, so which work it covers is unknown.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to the Lease Contracting Officer, J.P. Niega (JohnPaul.Niega@va.gov), and the broker, Caitlin Cunningham (CCunningham@isiwdc.com). 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
- Aug 24, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- RPO West (36C24W), McClellan, CA
- Product/service code
- X1DB · Lease/Rental of Laboratories and Clinics
- Business type
- Real estate, rentals & leasing (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 531120)
- Versions
9 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 22, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 9, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 6, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 26, 2026
- Sep 10, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 26, 2026
- Sep 2, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 26, 2026
- Aug 31, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 26, 2026
- Aug 31, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 26, 2026 (changed)
- Aug 24, 2026 · AmendmentDue Sep 30, 2026
- Aug 24, 2026 · Amendment 0004 (this version)Due Sep 30, 2026
- Aug 24, 2026 · Combined Synopsis/SolicitationDue Sep 30, 2026
- 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
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
AMENDMENT #04, RLP #36C24W26R0077 Santa Cruz, CA GSA Template R100 The RLP is hereby amended to update the following: 1. The due date for initial offers is hereby extended. The due date for receipt of Initial Offers is November 9, 2026, at 5:00 PM PDT. AMENDMENT # 03, RLP # 36C24W26R0077 Santa Cruz, CA 1. The purpose of this amendment is to (a) provide responses to Requests for Information (RFIs) and (b) revise the area table in the Agency Specific Requirements (ASR). 2. ASR Section 1.1, Conceptual Plan/Area Table, is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following attachment: Attachment: AreaTable1.1_Rev1_093026 3. The following attachment is provided in support of the response to RFI No. 6: Attachment: ConceptualFloorPlanWithEPowerLocations_093026 4. The due date for receipt of Initial Offers remains October 26, 2026, at 5:00 PM PDT. October 6, 2026 AMENDMENT #02. Acknowledgemnent, Pre-Bid conference slides and transcript upoaded to attachments. 1. VA has uploaded the slide deck and transcript of the pre-bid conference held on September 3, 2026. 2. Written Requests for Information (RFIs) from offerors shall be submitted no later than 5:00 pm Eastern Time, September 25, 2026. RFIs shall be submitted via e-mail to: JP Niega, Lease Contracting Officer (JohnPaul.Niega@va.gov) Caitlin Cunningham, Broker.ISI Professional Services (CCunningham@isiwdc.com) VA will post Responses to RFIs on SAM.gov PRE-BID CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 3RD, INFORMATION TO JOIN THE CONFERENCE. Join: https://gov.teams.microsoft.us/meet/992521645450?p=QbHCXLjM83P3icxQaL Meeting ID: 992 521 645 450 Passcode: 4oh99x5L For additional information contact : Caitlin Cunningham, Sr. Program Manager Phone: 202-263-0861 - Email: ccunningham@isiwdc.com NOTE: Amendment #01. "OFFERS DUE BY DATE" HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO CTOBER 26, 2026. Amendment #1 has been added to the attachments. PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENTS. Important Pre-bid Conference Information: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hereby issues Request for Lease Proposal (RLP) No. 36C24W26R0077. VA will be holding a Pre-Bid Conference on September 3, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Registration for the Pre-Bid Conference is required per Exhibit 2 to the RLP and must be submitted by 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 2, 2026. Questions/Requests for Information regarding the RLP must be submitted in writing no later than September 3, 2026, 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time. RLP Exhibit 5 – Agency Specific Requirements – is too large to post to SAM.gov. Offerors must contact VA’s Broker, Caitlin Cunningham, ISI Professional Services, at CCunningham@isiwdc.com in order to receive a copy. .
Similar open opportunities
- General Services Administration (GSA) seeks to lease office space in Santa Rosa, CAThe General Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service plans to lease 4,310 to 4,526 ANSI/BOMA office area (ABOA: the usable floor area) square feet of fully serviced…
- New Lease for VA Clinic (CBOC) Tarrant County, TexasThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) wants to lease space for a Community Based Outpatient Clinic for Veterans in an existing one-story building in Tarrant County, Texas.
- New Replacing Lease - Concord Vet CenterThe VA wants to lease new, built-out office space in Concord, California to replace its existing Vet Center (a counseling center for veterans).
- SOLICITATION: RLP PACKAGE: The Government is seeking to lease office and related space in FT. LEE, NEW JERSEY for a minimum of 25,939 ANSI/BOMA (ABOA) to a maximum of 27,233 ABOA square feet.Request for Lease Proposals (RLP) 4NJ0299-1: the General Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service wants to lease 25,936 to 27,233 ANSI/BOMA Occupant Area (ABOA, the…
- Lease of Office Space within Multiple Cities (Contra Costa County), California. Request for Lease Proposals (RLP) #26NAT01 - Office SpaceThe General Services Administration (GSA) wants to lease about 2,900 to 3,800 square feet of office space in the Walnut Creek area of Contra Costa County, California.