Presolicitation
FY27 NRM - VISN CSI Base Fluoroscopy Room C216o Prep - 539-CSI-208
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryThe Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contract Office 10) plans to buy construction to prepare Fluoroscopy Room C216o for a new fluoroscopy C-arm in the Cath Lab at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center (project 539-CSI-208, solicitation 36C25027B0007). It is set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB), and all work must finish within 180 calendar days of the notice to proceed. This is a presolicitation: SAM.gov gives November 20, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern as the expected date. More in the summary
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contract Office 10) plans to buy construction to prepare Fluoroscopy Room C216o for a new fluoroscopy C-arm in the Cath Lab at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center (project 539-CSI-208, solicitation 36C25027B0007). It is set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB), and all work must finish within 180 calendar days of the notice to proceed. This is a presolicitation: SAM.gov gives November 20, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern as the expected date.
Who can bid
- Service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), per the SAM.gov set-aside
Things to watch
From the version posted Nov 8, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside. Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses can bid, per the SAM.gov set-aside.
- Worth checking: Work in an active hospital Cath Lab. Construction inside a medical center's procedure space usually means extra infection control and scheduling care.
- Worth checking: Statement of work is only an outline. Pricing depends on the drawings and specifications, and a detailed inspection of the premises is recommended.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Prepare the site, including demolition and removal of existing structures
- Architectural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing work as shown in the drawings and specifications
- Infrastructure upgrades to support installing a new fluoroscopy C-arm in the Cath Lab
- Provide all tools, equipment, material, permits, labor and supervision
- Period of performance
- All phases completed within 180 calendar days after the notice to proceed
- Place of performance
- Cincinnati VA Medical Center (VAMC), Cath Lab space
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 20, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation, drawings and specifications are not yet posted; this is a presolicitation.
- Whether there is a site visit, and whether it is required, is not stated.
- Which wage rule applies (a Davis-Bacon wage determination) is not stated.
- The contract value, contract type and bonding requirements are not stated.
- How offers will be submitted and evaluated is not stated.
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 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 8, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- 250-Network Contract Office 10 (36C250), Dayton, OH
- Product/service code
- Z2DA · Repair or Alteration 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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