Solicitation
Project 629-25-104 ED Suicide Risk Mitigation Fence
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryOnly SBA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) can bid on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) solicitation 36C25626R0117. VA Network Contracting Office 16, for the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, wants suicide-prevention fencing built at the Emergency Department ramp and second-level parking deck at 2400 Canal Street, New Orleans. The response due date is November 23, 2026, 2:00 PM Central. Work must finish within 145 calendar days after the notice to proceed, and Davis-Bacon wage rates apply. An optional site visit is November 9, 2026. More in the summary
AI summary Beta
The notice looks incomplete: The RFP document (36C25626R0117.docx), the specifications PDF and the drawings PDF were attached but only partly read, so Section A.6 (how proposals are evaluated and the proposal volumes), the bid guarantee percentage, and the full clause text are on SAM.gov. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Only SBA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) can bid on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) solicitation 36C25626R0117. VA Network Contracting Office 16, for the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, wants suicide-prevention fencing built at the Emergency Department ramp and second-level parking deck at 2400 Canal Street, New Orleans. The response due date is November 23, 2026, 2:00 PM Central. Work must finish within 145 calendar days after the notice to proceed, and Davis-Bacon wage rates apply. An optional site visit is November 9, 2026.
Who can bid (6)
- Be a certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) in the SBA Veteran Small Business Certification site. Joint ventures must be verified SDVOSBs and registered in SAM at the time of response and at award.
- Complete and return VAAR clause 852.219-75 (limitations on subcontracting certificate of compliance) with the proposal
- Provide a bid bond with the proposal; the surety (bonding company) must complete the Exhibit E Surety Form
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- Show a safety record of no more than three serious, or one repeat or one willful OSHA violation in the past three years (or attach an explanation), and report your EMR
- Provide a competent 30-hour OSHA-certified superintendent from your own staff, assigned full time and only to this project while work is on site
- File the annual VETS-4212 veterans employment report; for awards over $150,000 it must be completed and accepted before award
How to submit: Email, with all proposal volumes and a copy of the bid bond, following the solicitation instructions. The email address for proposals is in the instructions section that was not fully read.. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (14)
From the version posted Oct 22, 2026.
- Serious: Total SDVOSB set-aside: only certified SDVOSBs can bid. A business that is not certified as an SDVOSB on the SBA site will not be considered, and this includes joint ventures; the certification verification must be in the proposal.
- Serious: Bid bond and surety information required with the proposal. A bonding company must back you, the bid bond must be wet signed and notarized with no white out, and a missing surety form lowers your rating.
- Serious: Proposal ineligible without VAAR 852.219-75. The signed limitations on subcontracting certificate must be returned with the proposal, or VA will not evaluate it.
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- Worth checking: Set-aside shown differently on SAM.gov and in the solicitation. SAM.gov lists no set-aside, but the solicitation says it is a total SDVOSB set-aside; follow the solicitation and ask the contracting officer if unsure.
- Worth checking: Dedicated full-time superintendent. One 30-hour OSHA-certified superintendent from your own staff must work only on this project while work is on site, which adds cost for a small firm.
- Worth checking: Safety record and surety forms are rated. Exhibit D (safety record and EMR) and Exhibit E (surety form) must be in the proposal, and offerors that leave them out are rated lower.
- Worth checking: VETS-4212 report must be accepted before award. For awards over $150,000, the Department of Labor veterans employment report must be completed and accepted before award, so file early.
- Worth checking: Work inside a hospital that never closes. The medical center runs 24 hours a day, so you must plan dust and life-safety protection and get written approval to interrupt utilities, with 7 days' notice (15 calendar days for major interruptions).
- Worth checking: Past performance questionnaires from your references. You must chase your references to return their questionnaires before the solicitation closes, and you may list no more than 5 projects.
- Minor: Site visit on November 9, 2026, 9:00 AM Central. Attendance is optional but strongly encouraged; the group meets at the main entrance of the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, 2400 Canal Street, and nothing said there changes the solicitation.
- Minor: Questions due November 13, 2026, 12:00 PM Central. Requests for information must use Exhibit F and go by email to the contract specialist; late questions may not be considered, and answers come in a written amendment.
- Minor: Start date is worded two ways. The solicitation says to begin within 10 calendar days after receiving the notice to proceed, while the statement of work says within 10 calendar days after notice of award; ask which governs.
- Minor: Davis-Bacon wage determination applies. Workers must be paid at least the rates in wage determination LA20260041 for Orleans Parish, which sets minimum pay and fringe benefits by trade.
- Minor: Award depends on funding. VA can award only if appropriated funds are available, and it does not pay for proposal preparation.
Read from the notice and 11 attachments. Show which files.
- 36C25626R0117.docx (read)
- 2515 VA New Orleans ED Fence - SPECIFICATIONS - BD revised 13 July 2026.pdf (read)
- 629-25-104 Emergency Dept Suicide Risk Mitigation Fence SOW.pdf (read)
- TMM 2515_Architecture_BID DOCUMENTS.pdf (read)
- 36C25626R0117 EXHIBIT F Request for Information.docx (read)
- 36C25626R0117 EXHIBIT C Subcontractor Information Consent.docx (read)
- 36C25626R0117 EXHIBIT A Past Performance Relevancy.docx (read)
- 36C25626R0117 EXHIBIT E Surety Form.docx (read)
- 36C25626R0117 EXHIBIT D Safety Form.docx (read)
- DOL Wage Determination LA20260041.pdf (read)
- Wage Determination.txt (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Install new coated non-climb fencing with stainless-steel cable mesh infill along both outboard sides of the emergency ramp driveway and around the whole second-level parking deck perimeter, including the oval opening in the middle
- Raise the barriers at the ramp and central opening to meet VA's 96-inch-above-finish-level standard for fall protection
- Build to the supplied drawings and specifications (high security fences and gates, concrete, metal fabrications, painting, grounding), anchored to existing structures without harming them
- Keep the medical center running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with interim life safety and dust protection, and written approval for any utility interruption
- Verify existing conditions, review submittals, keep red-line drawings for as-built documents, and provide a schedule of values and a timeline
- Provide a dedicated, full-time, 30-hour OSHA-certified superintendent from your own staff
- Follow VA security rules on site: badges, sign in with VA Police each workday, no photography of VA premises without written permission, off-site parking at the contractor's cost
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP): one set price, whatever the work ends up costing. One priced line: item 0001, QTY 1.00, unit JB.
- Period of performance
- Begin work within 10 calendar days after the notice to proceed and finish all work, including punch list items, within 145 calendar days after the notice to proceed is issued
- Place of performance
- Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, 2400 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119 (Emergency Department entrance ramp and second-level parking deck)
- Estimated value
- Magnitude of construction between $500,000.00 and $1,000,000.00, as stated by VA under VAAR 836.204
- Offers due
- November 23, 2026, 2:00 PM Central
- How to submit
- Email, with all proposal volumes and a copy of the bid bond, following the solicitation instructions. The email address for proposals is in the instructions section that was not fully read.
What to include when you submit
- Complete VAAR (VA Acquisition Regulation) clause 852.219-75, the limitations on subcontracting certificate, and return it with the proposal.
- Include proof of your SBA Veteran Small Business Certification (verification showing the seal). Joint ventures must also include the joint venture agreement.
- Send a copy of the bid bond with the proposal. Signatures must be wet signed, with no white out, and notary impressions must be clearly visible.
- Fill in the A.3 price schedule (item 0001, QTY 1.00, unit JB) and the A.4 divisional breakdown by material, labor, equipment and total for each division, plus subtotal, general liability insurance, overhead and profit, bond and project total.
- Include Exhibit D (Contractor Evaluation Form, Construction Safety) with the price proposal: OSHA 300 and 300A forms, days-away-restricted-transferred rate, serious, willful or repeat OSHA violations in the last 3 years, and the experience modification rate (EMR, the insurer's workplace-injury rating) on the insurance carrier's letterhead.
- Include Exhibit E (Surety Form), completed by your surety, with the technical proposal package.
- Past performance: Exhibit A for no more than 5 projects completed within 5 years before the solicitation issue date, with the reference contact for each. You must follow up so your references return their questionnaires before the solicitation closes.
- Have major subcontractors and teaming partners sign Exhibit C (consent to release past performance information) and include it with the past performance volume.
- Send questions only on Exhibit F by email to gregory.gunn3@va.gov with Julius.Jones@va.gov copied, using the subject line '[Company Name], RFI [number], Solicitation 36C25626R0117, Project 629-25-104'.
After award, you must have
- Contractor employees who need physical access to VA facilities must meet VA personal identity verification rules From 36C25626R0117.docx:
(a) The Contractor shall comply with current Department of Veterans Affairs policy for personal identity verification…
Not in the notice text
- The RFP document (36C25626R0117.docx), the specifications PDF and the drawings PDF were attached but only partly read, so Section A.6 (how proposals are evaluated and the proposal volumes), the bid guarantee percentage, and the full clause text are on SAM.gov.
- The evaluation method and factors, and their order of importance, were in the part that was not read.
- The email address for sending proposals was not in the part that was read.
- SF 1442 blocks 12 and 13 (whether performance and payment bonds are required, and the bid guarantee) could not be read as checkboxes; check the form on SAM.gov.
- SAM.gov's place of performance field is blank; the documents give 2400 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119.
- Dates for award and notice to proceed are not stated.
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, with all proposal volumes and a copy of the bid bond, following the solicitation instructions. The email address for proposals is in the instructions section that was not fully read. 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 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- 256-Network Contract Office 16 (36C256), Ridgeland, MS
- Product/service code
- Y1PZ · Construction of Other Non-Building Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 22, 2026 · Solicitation (this version)Due Nov 23, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 16, 2026 · PresolicitationDate Oct 29, 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
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
36C25626R0117 RFP
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