Presolicitation
EUR/Athens - Furniture refinishing services for residential and/or office furniture.
Department of State
AI summaryThe U.S. Embassy in Athens plans to buy furniture refinishing services for residential and office furniture under presolicitation 19GR1027Q0001. This is only advance notice: the request for quotations (RFQ) is not ready to be issued. The awardee should be an established business with all required licenses and permits and a permanent address in Athens, Greece. The anticipated performance period is two years. More in the summary
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The notice looks incomplete: The RFQ is not issued yet. Its scope of work, quantities, response due date, evaluation terms and contract type will come when the embassy posts it on SAM.gov. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The U.S. Embassy in Athens plans to buy furniture refinishing services for residential and office furniture under presolicitation 19GR1027Q0001. This is only advance notice: the request for quotations (RFQ) is not ready to be issued. The awardee should be an established business with all required licenses and permits and a permanent address in Athens, Greece. The anticipated performance period is two years.
Who can bid
- Established business in Athens, Greece with all required licenses and permits and a permanent address in Athens
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM), required before submitting an offer
How to submit: Email to athprocurement@state.gov; the whole email must be under 25 MB and contain only .zip and .pdf files. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 22, 2026.
- Serious: Permanent address in Athens, Greece required. A U.S. small business without a permanent Athens address and Greek licenses and permits may not be able to be the awardee.
- Worth checking: Solicitation not yet issued. No scope details, quantities or evaluation terms are posted yet; the embassy will post the RFQ on SAM.gov when it is available.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- PreSolicitation_SAM Notice.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Refinish residential and/or office furniture for U.S. Embassy Athens
- Work at U.S. Embassy Athens, 91 Vas. Sophias Avenue, 10160, Athens, Greece
- Period of performance
- Anticipated performance period is two years
- Place of performance
- U.S. Embassy Athens, 91 Vas. Sophias Avenue, 10160, Athens, Greece
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How to submit
- Email to athprocurement@state.gov; the whole email must be under 25 MB and contain only .zip and .pdf files
What to include when you submit
- Register in the System for Award Management (SAM) before sending a quotation; the notice encourages registering before quotations are due
- Email size limit is 25 MB, with only .zip and .pdf attachments; links to cloud storage such as DropBox or Google Drive may be blocked
- If files exceed 25 MB, split them across separate emails of under 25 MB each
Not in the notice text
- The RFQ is not issued yet. Its scope of work, quantities, response due date, evaluation terms and contract type will come when the embassy posts it on SAM.gov.
- The notice names no set-aside; the notice file lists the set-aside as N/A.
- The notice does not say what the RFQ will require about quotation currency, host-country taxes such as value-added tax (VAT), or Greek labor law.
- The notice does not say which licenses and permits are required or how they will be checked.
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 athprocurement@state.gov; the whole email must be under 25 MB and contain only .zip and .pdf files. 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 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- American Embassy Athens
- Product/service code
- J071 · Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment – Furniture
- Business type
- Equipment repair & maintenance (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 81142)
- 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
Terms on this notice: Solicitation