Presolicitation
512A5-22-700 | EHRM Infra Upgrades | Perry Point, MD CO: Samantha Mihaila CS: Ric Sochor
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryOnly service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) can bid on this Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) construction project to upgrade infrastructure for the electronic health record program (EHRM) at the Perry Point, MD medical center. SAM.gov shows a response date of November 5, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern, and the solicitation is expected to be issued in mid-November 2026. It will be a single firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) contract, about 689 calendar days of work. More in the summary
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AI summary Beta
Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) can bid on this Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) construction project to upgrade infrastructure for the electronic health record program (EHRM) at the Perry Point, MD medical center. SAM.gov shows a response date of November 5, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern, and the solicitation is expected to be issued in mid-November 2026. It will be a single firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) contract, about 689 calendar days of work.
Who can bid
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB); offers from other firms will not be considered
- Small under NAICS 236220 (size standard $45.0 million)
How to submit: Questions in writing by email to ric.sochor@va.gov; the request for proposals (RFP) is not yet issued. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 21, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside: only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses can bid. Firms without SDVOSB status cannot win this award on their own.
- Serious: Large project. The magnitude of construction is $20 million to $50 million, so the bonding and past project size needed may be high; the notice does not list bonding.
- Minor: Long performance period. The work runs about 689 calendar days from the notice to proceed.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Install facility fiber to every telecommunications room (TR), with a redundant fiber run, and redundant fiber mains to the demarcation room
- Install about 100 data drops and about 75 new electrical outlets
- Add power in each TR and upgrade facility power distribution and heating and cooling (HVAC) as required
- Do a physical security assessment and provide upgrades
- Reconfigure, expand and renovate existing space, including demolition, new construction, finishes and cable
- Upgrade data center work and the campus-wide fiber backbone, and provide a diversified path for the wide area network (WAN)
- Hazardous material abatement, and site preparation including demolition of existing structures
- Work across the many buildings listed in the notice (4H, 4R, 5H and others) and the campus site
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP), design-bid-build (the VA supplies the plans and the contractor builds), single award
- Period of performance
- Approximately 689 calendar days from the issuance of the notice to proceed
- Place of performance
- VA Medical Center, 361 Boiler House Road, Building 361, Perry Point, MD 21902-1103
- Estimated value
- VA magnitude of construction range: between $20,000,000 and $50,000,000 (VAAR 836.204)
- How they'll choose
- Lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA): the lowest-priced offer that meets the technical requirements wins
- Offers due
- November 5, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Questions in writing by email to ric.sochor@va.gov; the request for proposals (RFP) is not yet issued
What to include when you submit
- Send questions in writing by email to ric.sochor@va.gov; telephone calls are not accepted
Not in the notice text
- Whether there is a site visit and whether it is required
- Which wage rule applies; no Davis-Bacon wage determination is mentioned
- Bonding requirements
- Evaluation details and submission method, which come with the solicitation
Eligibility and how to respond
- Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) certified through SBA's VetCert can bid as the prime contractor. Not certified through VetCert yet? Apply on VetCert (SBA), or start with the SDVOSB guide. More open service-disabled veteran-owned set-asides under NAICS 236220
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Questions in writing by email to ric.sochor@va.gov; the request for proposals (RFP) is not yet issued. 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 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- Pcac (36C776), Independence, OH
- Product/service code
- Y1DA · Construction of Hospitals and Infirmaries
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- 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 read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Open SDVOSB set-aside contracts
- SDVOSB and veteran-owned contracts
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, SDVOSB (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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