Solicitation
Copy of FY27Q1-CON 668-24-106 Renovate CLC East Wing and Courtyard
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryOnly service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) can bid, according to the solicitation, though SAM.gov states no set-aside. The Department of Veterans Affairs wants a contractor to renovate the Community Living Center (CLC) east wing and courtyard at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, for one firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) contract. Work runs 389 calendar days after the notice to proceed, and the response due date is November 23, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific, by email. More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 21, 2026. See the latest version.
AI summary Beta
Summary of the version posted Oct 13, 2026. The notice was amended Oct 21, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 3 of 8 attachments weren't read (Attachment 2 Technical Specifications.pdf, Attachment 6 Division Cost Breakout.xls and 1 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) can bid, according to the solicitation, though SAM.gov states no set-aside. The Department of Veterans Affairs wants a contractor to renovate the Community Living Center (CLC) east wing and courtyard at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, for one firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) contract. Work runs 389 calendar days after the notice to proceed, and the response due date is November 23, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific, by email.
Who can bid (5)
- Service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB): the solicitation is a 100 percent SDVOSB set-aside. SDVOSB means designated in SAM as certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA).
- Small business under the $45,000,000 size standard for NAICS 236220.
- Bid guarantee (SF 24) with the proposal: at least 20 percent of the bid price, up to $3 million.
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- Signed limitations on subcontracting certificate (Attachment 4). For general construction, no more than 85 percent of the amount the Government pays you may go to firms that are not certified SDVOSBs; materials cost is excluded.
- Experience as the prime contractor on 2 to 5 similar projects completed in the past five years, with past performance references.
How to submit: Email to michael.conway5@va.gov and dennis.einarson@va.gov. No hard copy or facsimile proposals.. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (10)
- Serious: SDVOSB-only set-aside; SAM.gov shows none. Only SDVOSBs designated in SAM as SBA-certified can bid. SAM.gov states no set-aside, but the solicitation says it is a 100 percent SDVOSB set-aside. Check with the Contracting Officer if unsure.
- Serious: Bid guarantee required with the proposal. A bid guarantee of at least 20 percent of the bid price, up to $3 million, is required. A missing or wrong guarantee may require rejection of the proposal.
- Serious: Offers without the subcontracting certificate are ineligible. You must sign and return Attachment 4 with the offer, promising that no more than 85 percent of the amount paid goes to firms that are not certified SDVOSBs (materials excluded). Offers without it are not considered.
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- Serious: Weak experience or past performance ends the evaluation. An Unacceptable rating on technical experience, or Limited Confidence or No Confidence on past performance, stops the evaluation, and the Government no longer considers the offer for award.
- Serious: Performance and payment bonds may be required. The bonds clause is in the contract and the offer form refers to any required bonds. The bond amount and due date were not in the text read, and the form's checkboxes couldn't be read; check the form on SAM.gov.
- Worth checking: Only prime-contractor projects count. You need 2 to 5 projects completed in the last five years in which you were the prime. Subcontractor experience does not count toward Volume 1.
- Worth checking: The site visit was Oct 19, 2026. Check the notice and its amendments for whether attendance was required, and whether another visit is offered.
- Worth checking: Questions were due Oct 26, 2026. Check the amendments for the agency's answers.
- Worth checking: Construction wage determination applies. A wage determination (WA20260114) is attached, and the construction wage rate clause (52.222-6) applies; this is the Davis-Bacon wage rule, which sets minimum pay for construction trades. The attachment's text could not be read; check it on SAM.gov.
- Minor: Email-only submission. Proposals go by email to two addresses. Any other method is not accepted.
Read from the notice and 5 attachments. 3 of 8 not read. Show which files.
- 36C26027R0020.docx (read)
- Attachment 1 SOW.docx (read)
- Attachment 4 Limitations on Subcontracting-Construction.pdf (read)
- Attachment 5 Past Performance Questionnaire.docx (read)
- Attachment 7 Wage Determination WA20260114 5.18.2026.pdf (read)
- Attachment 2 Technical Specifications.pdf: not read (it couldn't be opened): open it on SAM.gov
- Attachment 6 Division Cost Breakout.xls: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- Attachment 3 Drawings.pdf: not read (it couldn't be opened): open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Renovate about 7730 sf (square feet) of the first-floor east wing of the CLC, Building 12, to current VA standards.
- Connect heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and other building systems in the adjacent north wing.
- Renovate the courtyard created by a recent addition of a treatment wing.
- Fix facility condition deficiencies in the renovated areas.
- Provide all supervision, labor, tools, materials, installation, training, commissioning documentation and operations and maintenance (O&M) documentation.
- Check all equipment, parts, materials and existing conditions in the field before work.
- Provide inspection, testing and warranty documents and manuals as the specifications require.
- Give a one-year warranty on materials and installation.
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP); one lump-sum line item (0001, quantity 1.00, unit JB)
- Period of performance
- Base period only: 389 calendar days after the notice to proceed
- Place of performance
- Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center, 4815 N Assembly St, Spokane, WA 99205 (Building 12); SAM.gov leaves the place of performance blank
- Estimated value
- Government's estimate: the estimated price ranges from over $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 (per the VA Acquisition Procedures Manual, VAPM M836.101)
- How they'll choose
- Best value tradeoff under Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Part 15. Technical experience and past performance are about equally important; together they are significantly more important than price. The Government may award without negotiations.
- Offers due
- November 23, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific (from the version posted Oct 13, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- Email to michael.conway5@va.gov and dennis.einarson@va.gov. No hard copy or facsimile proposals.
- Page limits
- Volume 1 Technical Experience: 20 pages. Volume 2 Past Performance: no limit. Volume 3 Price: no limit.
What they'll judge offers on
- Factor 1, Technical Experience: 2 to 5 recent, relevant renovation projects, rated for logic, detail showing you understand the work, and a history of successful performance
- Factor 2, Past Performance: how well and how recently you did the same projects, from questionnaires, CPARS and other sources; VA Veterans Health Administration (VHA) work may rate higher
- Factor 3, Price: reasonableness check; the grand total must match the divisional price breakout (Attachment 6)
What to include when you submit
- Send three separate volumes: Volume 1 Technical Experience, Volume 2 Past Performance, Volume 3 Price.
- Name each file '[Solicitation Number] [Company Name] Volume 1 Technical Experience' (and Volume 2 Past Performance, Volume 3 Price).
- Format: 8.5 x 11 inch pages, single-spaced, Times New Roman 11-point or larger, consecutive page numbers with the RFP number, and a table of contents in each volume.
- Volume 1: a minimum of two and a maximum of five projects completed within the past five years, as of the issue date of the solicitation. Projects must be similar in scope, complexity, size and cost or price. You must have been the prime contractor on each.
- Volume 1, for each project: title and location; original contract award amount; original completion date; original versus actual start, completion and cost with reasons for differences; challenges and fixes; one reference and one alternate (name, title, address, phone, email) who know the project and are not affiliated with you.
- Volume 2: a Past Performance Questionnaire (Attachment 5) for each Volume 1 project, which you collect from references. A CPARS report may replace a questionnaire. Do not add past performance for projects not in Volume 1.
- Volume 2: if you have no recent or relevant past performance, say so in a statement; you will be rated Neutral.
- Volume 3: Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442, the form you sign and return as your offer), completed and signed by a person who can bind the company.
- Volume 3: acknowledge all amendments, either in block 19 of the SF 1442 or by returning each signed amendment.
- Volume 3: Standard Form 24 (SF 24) bid guarantee of at least 20 percent of the bid price, not more than $3 million.
- Volume 3: completed representations and certifications for every provision that asks for them.
- Volume 3: Attachment 4, the VA limitations on subcontracting certificate, with the company name inserted twice and the five lines below the certification filled in and signed.
- Volume 3: Attachment 6, Divisional Price Breakout, completed in full.
- Submit questions by 12:00 PM PDT on October 26, 2026 to the same two email addresses; only answers given in an RFP amendment count.
After award, you must have
- Performance and payment bonds: the contract includes the construction bonds clause (52.228-15), and the offer form says the offeror agrees to furnish any required bonds. The bond amount and due date were not in the text read. From 36C26027R0020.docx:
The offeror agrees to furnish any required performance and payment bonds.
- Background investigations for on-site contractor staff; the table lists all on-site construction positions as Tier 1 / low risk. VA issues identification cards to staff who need building access. From 36C26027R0020.docx:
All Construction Services Contractor Positions Physically On-Site…
Current contractor
No incumbent or earlier contract is named.
Not in the notice text
- Part of the solicitation (the middle of 36C26027R0020.docx), the technical specifications (Attachment 2), the drawings (Attachment 3) and the Division Cost Breakout spreadsheet (Attachment 6) were attached but not read.
- The wage determination (Attachment 7) text could not be read; check it on SAM.gov.
- Whether performance and payment bonds are required, and their amounts, are not in the text read; the form's checkboxes couldn't be read.
- Liquidated damages (daily charges for late work) and insurance amounts are not in the text read.
- No incumbent or earlier contract is named.
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 michael.conway5@va.gov and dennis.einarson@va.gov. No hard copy or facsimile proposals. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Construction contracts over $2,000 pay at least the local Davis-Bacon wage rates, from the wage determination in the solicitation. Price your labor from it: How to price a government contract, and how Davis-Bacon differs from the Service Contract Act.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- 260-Network Contract Office 20 (36C260), Vancouver, WA
- Product/service code
- Z2DA · Repair or Alteration of Hospitals and Infirmaries
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
4 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 21, 2026 · Amendment 0002Due Nov 23, 2026
- Oct 13, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 23, 2026
- Oct 13, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 23, 2026
- Oct 13, 2026 · PresolicitationNo date on SAM.gov
- 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
PRICE SCHEDULE ITEM NUMBER DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT 0001 1.00 JB _________ __________________ Project 668-24-106 Renovate Community Living Center (CLC) East Wing and Courtyard Contract Period: Base POP Begin: Issuance of Notice To Proceed POP End: 389 Calendar Days after Notice to Proceed PRINCIPAL NAICS CODE: 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction PRODUCT/SERVICE CODE: Z2DA - Repair or Alteration of Hospitals and Infirmaries GRAND TOTAL __________________
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