Presolicitation
Fort Yates Pharmacy USP Renovation
Department of Health and Human Services · Indian Health Service
AI summaryOnly Indian Small Business Economic Enterprises (ISBEE: small firms owned by members of federally recognized tribes) can bid, under the Buy Indian Act. The Indian Health Service plans to renovate the inpatient and outpatient pharmacies at Fort Yates Hospital in Fort Yates, ND, to meet U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) 795, 797 and 800 compounding standards, within 270 calendar days of the notice to proceed, for an estimated $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. This is a presolicitation: the request for proposals (solicitation 75H70127R00001) is expected on or about mid or late November, 2026, and SAM.gov lists November 23, 2026 as the expected date. More in the summary
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Only Indian Small Business Economic Enterprises (ISBEE: small firms owned by members of federally recognized tribes) can bid, under the Buy Indian Act. The Indian Health Service plans to renovate the inpatient and outpatient pharmacies at Fort Yates Hospital in Fort Yates, ND, to meet U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) 795, 797 and 800 compounding standards, within 270 calendar days of the notice to proceed, for an estimated $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. This is a presolicitation: the request for proposals (solicitation 75H70127R00001) is expected on or about mid or late November, 2026, and SAM.gov lists November 23, 2026 as the expected date.
Who can bid
- Must be an Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise (ISBEE) under the Buy Indian Act, small under NAICS 236220 ($45 million size standard)
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM)
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Nov 9, 2026.
- Serious: ISBEE firms only. Only Indian Small Business Economic Enterprises can bid, so other small businesses are shut out.
- Worth checking: Work in an operating hospital pharmacy. Pharmacy operations must continue during phased work, with infection control and shutdown coordination adding cost and schedule risk.
- Worth checking: Start depends on another project. Construction can begin only after the McLaughlin pharmacy project is finished, so the start date is uncertain.
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- Minor: Presolicitation only. This notice isn't a request for offers; the dates, site visit and deadlines will be set in the solicitation.
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Full summary
What they want
- Phased renovation of the inpatient and outpatient pharmacies to meet USP 795, 797 and 800 compounding standards
- Set up a temporary pharmacy and keep pharmacy operations running during the work
- Relocate equipment and convert existing spaces for pharmacy and storage use
- Replace the outpatient pharmacy air handler
- Install security systems and upgrade the facility-wide building automation interface
- Coordinate shutdowns and meet safety, infection control, permitting, tribal and waste disposal requirements
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing), single award
- Period of performance
- 270 calendar days from the notice to proceed; construction starts only after the McLaughlin pharmacy project is complete
- Place of performance
- Fort Yates Hospital, Fort Yates, ND (Sioux County)
- Estimated value
- Construction magnitude between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000
- How they'll choose
- Lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA: the cheapest offer that meets every standard wins)
- Offers due
- November 23, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern (solicitation expected)
What to include when you submit
- Watch SAM.gov for the solicitation and its amendments; no bidder list is kept and hard copies won't be available
- Don't call for more information; nothing more is available before the solicitation
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation, scope of work, plans, specifications and the construction wage determination aren't posted yet; they will be in the solicitation on SAM.gov.
- Whether there is a site visit and whether it's required; details will be in the solicitation.
- Which Davis-Bacon (construction) wage determination applies.
- The proposal due date, about 30 calendar days after the solicitation is released.
- Bonding requirements.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for Indian small business economic enterprises: only those can bid as the prime contractor. More open indian economic enterprise set-asides under NAICS 236220
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
- 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
- Nov 9, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- Div of Engineering SVCS - Seattle, WA
- 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
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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