Sources Sought
Sources Sought - POST TEST LITHIUM BATTERY STORAGE
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
AI summarySources sought (market research, not a request for proposals): Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (part of the Naval Sea Systems Command) has a construction need for a Post-Test Lithium Battery Storage Facility in Maryland. Interested firms, small or large, send a capability statement and a rough order of magnitude (ROM, a ballpark price) by the response due date of November 18, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern. The statement of work (SOW) attachments must be requested by email by November 3, 2026. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Department of the Navy who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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Sources sought (market research, not a request for proposals): Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (part of the Naval Sea Systems Command) has a construction need for a Post-Test Lithium Battery Storage Facility in Maryland. Interested firms, small or large, send a capability statement and a rough order of magnitude (ROM, a ballpark price) by the response due date of November 18, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern. The statement of work (SOW) attachments must be requested by email by November 3, 2026.
How to submit: Email to Heather Valiga at heather.l.valiga.civ@us.navy.mil. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 19, 2026.
- Worth checking: Statement of work only on request. The SOW attachments are not posted; you must email the contact for them by November 3, 2026, which is before the response due date.
- Minor: Rough price estimate required. You must give a rough order of magnitude price without a posted statement of work, unless you request the attachments.
- Minor: Acquisition strategy not decided. The Government will decide how to buy, including any small business set-aside, based on the responses.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Build a Post-Test Lithium Battery Storage Facility (industrial building construction)
- Send a capability statement showing you can do the work
- Send a rough order of magnitude (ROM) price estimate
- Place of performance
- MD
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 18, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern (the notice writes 1700 EST)
- How to submit
- Email to Heather Valiga at heather.l.valiga.civ@us.navy.mil
What to include when you submit
- Send (1) a capability statement and (2) a rough order of magnitude (ROM)
- To get the statement of work attachments, email Heather Valiga by November 3, 2026
Not in the notice text
- The statement of work attachments are available only by emailing the contact; the scope, size and schedule are in them
- Whether there is a site visit, and whether it would be required (construction)
- Which wage rule applies, such as a Davis-Bacon wage determination (federal pay rates for construction work)
- Contract type, length and estimated value
- Whether bonding is required
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
- 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 19, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- NSWC Carderock, Bethesda, MD
- Product/service code
- Y1HB · Construction of Government-Owned Government-Operated (GOGO) R&D Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236210)
- 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: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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