Solicitation
Bassie Spring Improvement Project
Department of the Interior · Bureau of Land Management
AI summaryThe Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada State Office wants a small business to remove an old spring box and trough, install a new spring box, pipeline and trough, and build a 650-foot pipe rail fence at Bassie Spring in Churchill County, Nevada. Only small businesses can bid. Amendment 0001 moved the response due date from October 26, 2026 (passed) to November 9, 2026, 11:00 AM Pacific, and the Davis-Bacon Act (federal minimum pay rates for construction workers) applies. More in the summary
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This summary may miss requirements: 1 of 10 attachments weren't read (B03_UPDATED_Davis-Bacon_Act_WD___NNV20260060_dated_7_30_2026_0001.pdf). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada State Office wants a small business to remove an old spring box and trough, install a new spring box, pipeline and trough, and build a 650-foot pipe rail fence at Bassie Spring in Churchill County, Nevada. Only small businesses can bid. Amendment 0001 moved the response due date from October 26, 2026 (passed) to November 9, 2026, 11:00 AM Pacific, and the Davis-Bacon Act (federal minimum pay rates for construction workers) applies.
Who can bid (4)
- Small business (total small business set-aside; NAICS 238990 with a $19M size standard); represent your size status through SAM.gov
- A valid contractor license (not limited to Nevada) to perform the work
- Complete registration in the System for Award Management (SAM); the Government takes your representations and certifications from SAM
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- Be found responsible under Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 9 (the rules on whether a firm is able to perform)
How to submit: Email to carey_grund@ios.doi.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (11)
From the version posted Oct 23, 2026.
- Serious: Small business only. Only small businesses can send quotes; the size standard is $19M for NAICS 238990.
- Serious: Contractor license required. A valid contractor license is needed to do the work, and the answer does not name the license type.
- Serious: All work must be quoted together. BLM will not split the buy, so a fence-only firm has to team up with a prime that quotes the whole project.
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- Worth checking: Subcontractor details required. If subcontractors will work on the project, leaving out their details can make the quote non-responsive and ineligible for award.
- Worth checking: Remote site with rough access. The site is about 2 hours from Fallon, on a moderately steep, moderately rocky slope that needs 4X4 trucks and trailers, and the area is not staked.
- Worth checking: Schedule terms are hard to line up. The PWS gives 60 days from the notice to proceed, the order form gives January 1, 2027 to October 30, 2027, and the PWS also sets a mobilization plan and invoice no later than September 15, 2027; ask how these fit.
- Worth checking: Site inspection is urged and expected. No formal site visit is scheduled, but quoters are urged and expected to inspect the site, and failing to inspect is no ground for a claim after award.
- Minor: Two clause numbers for the removed bond clause. Amendment 0001 says clauses 52.228-11 and 52.223-14 were removed, while the questions and answers say 52.228-11 and 52.228-14 were removed; ask the contracting officer which governs.
- Minor: Weather and fire suspensions give no extra pay. Contract time keeps running during suspensions for normal weather and fire danger, with no added money for any suspension.
- Minor: Davis-Bacon wage rates apply. Amendment 0001 swapped the wage determination for Davis-Bacon Act WD # NV20260060; its rates are in a scanned file that was not read.
- Minor: Questions were due Oct 14, 2026. Check the amendments for the agency's answers.
Read from the notice and 9 attachments. 1 of 10 not read. Show which files.
- Sol_140L3926Q0049_Amd_0001.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L3926Q0049.pdf (read)
- A04_UPDATED__PWS_Bassie_Spring_Enclosure_and_Development_10_22_26_0001.docx (read)
- A04_PWS_Bassie_Spring_Enclosure_and_Development.docx (read)
- UPDATED_Bid_Schedule_L3926Q0049_0001.docx (read)
- UPDATED_Provision_Packet___L3926Q0049_0001.docx (read)
- Bid_Schedule_L3926Q0049.docx (read)
- Questions_and_Answers_0001.pdf (read)
- B03_Davis-Bacon_Act_WD___NV20260070_dated_7_30_2026.pdf (read)
- B03_UPDATED_Davis-Bacon_Act_WD___NNV20260060_dated_7_30_2026_0001.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Remove and dispose of the defunct spring diversion structure, pipeline and trough
- Buy and install a spring diversion box dug in just below the spring head, with a 2 cubic yard pea gravel pack
- Buy and install about 175 feet of 1-inch PVC pipe (buried at least 18 inches), a float shut-off valve and a round poly stock trough about 8 feet across (about 625 gallons)
- Buy and build 650 feet of steel pipe rail fence around the spring, with no gates or walk-through, using black carbon steel pipe
- Furnish all tools, materials, equipment and labor and haul the materials to the remote site
- Provide a mobilization plan (how equipment and people reach the site) and a work progress plan at the pre-work conference after award
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) single-award construction contract
- Period of performance
- January 1, 2027 to October 30, 2027 on the order form; the performance work statement (PWS) gives 60 days from the notice to proceed, to be finished before October 30, 2027, and the questions and answers say the notice to proceed would be issued no later than April 30
- Place of performance
- Bassie Spring, Desatoya Mountains, Churchill County, Nevada, on BLM-managed land; the nearest full support community is Fallon, Nevada, about 2 hours away
- Estimated value
- Project magnitude between $25,000 and $100,000
- How they'll choose
- Best-value trade-off: price and non-price factors are compared, and the Government may pick other than the lowest price or the highest technical rating
- Offers due
- November 9, 2026, 11:00 AM Pacific
- How to submit
- Email to carey_grund@ios.doi.gov
What they'll judge offers on
- Technical
- Past Performance (a small business with none may ask for a neutral rating)
- Price
What to include when you submit
- Send a short cover letter with the company name, address, SAM UEI (unique entity identifier), CAGE Code (a government ID for a business site) and phone number, plus a point of contact.
- In the cover letter state that the quote is valid for the minimum 60 days.
- In the cover letter answer these questions: pending or outstanding judgments, claims or lawsuits (with details on a separate sheet if yes); suspension, debarment or termination on past projects; whether you hold federal contracts and grants worth more than $10,000,000 (FAR 52.209-7(b)); and whether you will provide covered telecommunications equipment or services (FAR 52.204-24(d)).
- Sign Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442) and insert the total price; a person with authority to bind the company must sign.
- Acknowledge Amendment 0001 by signing and returning its Standard Form 30 (SF 30) with the SF 1442.
- Complete and submit the bid schedule (UPDATED_Bid_Schedule_L3926Q0049_0001.docx), which has three priced lines: removal of the old spring box and trough; spring box, gravel pack, PVC pipeline, float valve and trough; and the 650-foot fence line.
- If subcontractors will perform, give each one's company name, supervisor name, contact information, email address and telephone number, or the quote can be treated as non-responsive.
- Quote all work: the contract will not be a split acquisition, so a firm that only builds the fence needs to be a subcontractor to a prime.
- A small business prime may submit its own past performance and its subcontractor's separately; a business with none may ask for a neutral past performance rating.
- The Technical, Past Performance and Price information to send is on page 28 of the solicitation, which was not in the text read.
Not in the notice text
- Parts of the solicitation were not read: Sol_140L3926Q0049.pdf (52,648 of 117,142 characters read) and UPDATED_Provision_Packet___L3926Q0049_0001.docx (26,325 of 102,002 characters read) each had the middle left out, including the page 28 Technical, Past Performance and Price instructions and the liability insurance amounts.
- B03_UPDATED_Davis-Bacon_Act_WD___NNV20260060_dated_7_30_2026_0001.pdf is attached but not read (scanned, no text), so the current wage rates are not known; the earlier wage determination NV20260070 is garbled in the text.
- How much weight Technical, Past Performance and Price each carry is not stated in the text read.
- Whether BLM will install a wildlife escape ramp: the questions and answers say BLM provides and installs it, while the updated PWS lists no Government-furnished items.
- The fence drawing (Exhibit A, updated to 1-3/4 inch outer diameter rails per the questions and answers) is a figure that was not read.
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 238990
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to carey_grund@ios.doi.gov. 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 23, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- Nevada State Office, Reno, NV
- Product/service code
- Y1PZ · Construction of Other Non-Building Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 238990)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 23, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 9, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 25, 2026 · SolicitationDue Oct 26, 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
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
BASSIE SPRING IMPROVEMENT PROJECT PER PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT - AMENDMENT TO SOLICITATION
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