Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Arkabutla Lake Water Plant Rehab and Pre-fabricated Metal Building Installation
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg District) wants one firm to abandon an old well, plumb and wire a water plant, and supply and install one 30'x50' prefabricated metal building at Arkabutla Lake near Hernando, Mississippi. This is solicitation W912EE27QA002 (Arkabutla Lake Water Plant Rehab and Pre-fabricated Metal Building Installation). It is a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) request for quotes (RFQ), open to all sizes after Amendment One. The response due date is November 6, 2026, 3:00 PM Central. Work must finish within 120 days of award. More in the summary
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg District) wants one firm to abandon an old well, plumb and wire a water plant, and supply and install one 30'x50' prefabricated metal building at Arkabutla Lake near Hernando, Mississippi. This is solicitation W912EE27QA002 (Arkabutla Lake Water Plant Rehab and Pre-fabricated Metal Building Installation). It is a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) request for quotes (RFQ), open to all sizes after Amendment One. The response due date is November 6, 2026, 3:00 PM Central. Work must finish within 120 days of award.
Who can bid
- No set-aside: Amendment One changed the acquisition to unrestricted, so businesses of any size can quote.
How to submit: Email to afton.riles@usace.army.mil. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (8)
From the version posted Oct 26, 2026.
- Worth checking: Evaluation factors are in a clause not shown here. The notice says RFO 52.212-2 sets the evaluation factors and basis for award, but the clause text was not in the files read, so you cannot see how quotes are scored.
- Worth checking: Mixed trades under one price. One price covers well abandonment, plumbing, electrical, trenching, tank blasting and painting, and a metal building, so you may need several trade subcontractors.
- Worth checking: Regulated public water system. The old well and tank serve a regulated public water system overseen by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), and the tank gives potable (drinking water) service.
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- Minor: Set-aside wording differs between the notice text and SAM.gov. The notice text still says 100% small business set aside, but the same text and Amendment One say it is now unrestricted, and SAM.gov shows no set-aside; Amendment One's change controls.
- Minor: Delivery limited to Monday through Thursday. Deliveries are allowed only 0700 to 1630 Monday through Thursday, with verbal notice to the site contact at least 48 hours before.
- Minor: Security training within 30 days of award. Contract personnel must finish security training within 30 days of award and send written proof within five business days after.
- Minor: Two delivery addresses. The scope gives 5500 Arkabutla Dam Road, Hernando, MS for delivery, but the field office address in the delivery block is 3905 Arkabutla Dam Rd., Coldwater, MS; confirm which is correct with the contracting officer.
- Minor: Amendment changed the response due date. The original solicitation form shows November 4, 2026; Amendment One moves the response due date to November 6, 2026, 3:00 PM Central, which matches SAM.gov.
Read from the notice and 4 attachments. Show which files.
- Solicitation Amendment W912EE27QA0020001 SF 30.pdf (read)
- Solicitation W912EE27QA002.pdf (read)
- Updated Scope of Work .docx (read)
- Scope of Work Arkabutla Lake Water Plant Rehab and Pre-fabricated Building Installation.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Abandon the old well (no well log exists; about 265 feet deep with a 4 inch casing)
- Install new plumbing: valves, flange fittings, 2 inch pressure reducer, 2 inch flange master meter, Stenner 45MHP10 chemical pump, 3 phase air compressor
- Purchase, deliver and install one 30'x50' Red Iron open span prefabricated metal building, 12' eaves, 2:12 roof pitch, 26 gauge roof and walls, one 10 ft x 10 ft roll up door, one 3'x7' walk through door, R19 insulation and gutters, with engineer's stamped drawings and anchor bolt plans
- Sand blast and paint the 8x30 horizontal pressure tank inside and out (Tnemec zinc, series 21, L140 epoxy and 1094 urethane coats); the tank is moved off site for blasting
- Install new electrical: 200-amp outside breaker, 200-amp main panel, pump control panel with motor starter, disconnect at the well, lighting and ten 120V outlets
- Do the trenching yourself and remove demolished materials in line with industry standards
- Finish all work within 120 days of award, with a one-year limited warranty from delivery
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract, one award, from a request for quotes (RFQ)
- Period of performance
- 120 days from award
- Place of performance
- Arkabutla Lake Project, 5500 Arkabutla Dam Road, Hernando, MS 38632 (the notice lists Hernando, MS)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 6, 2026, 3:00 PM Central
- How to submit
- Email to afton.riles@usace.army.mil
What to include when you submit
- Send a quote by email with the content the solicitation specifies; quotes without it may be removed from consideration.
- Include a bidding schedule with your quote.
- Acknowledge Amendment One (SF 30) before the response due date, by completing items 8 and 15, by marking each copy of your offer, or by separate letter or email that names the solicitation and amendment numbers.
- Send technical questions through Bidder Inquiry in ProjNet (projnet.org) using the inquiry key in the notice; questions inside 72 hours of closing may not get a reply.
After award, you must have
- Use E-Verify to check employee work eligibility; an initial list of verified candidates goes to the contracting officer's representative within three business days after award. From Updated Scope of Work .docx:
Pre-screen candidates using E-Verify Program…
- Government approval is needed before any non-U.S. citizen works on the contract. From Updated Scope of Work .docx:
Government Approval MUST be obtained PRIOR to any non-U.S. Citizen being permitted to work on a government contract.
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The old well is being replaced by a newly installed well, and no previous contract is mentioned.
Not in the notice text
- The evaluation factors and basis for award are in RFO 52.212-2, whose text was not in the files read.
- The bidding schedule form and the exact quote content the solicitation requires are not shown.
- Whether a Davis-Bacon wage determination (federal construction wage rules) applies is not stated.
- Whether a site visit is required is not stated; site visits can be arranged through Billy Fowler, 662-292-1984.
- The Government's estimate or budget is not stated.
- The old well has no well log; only depth and casing size are given.
Eligibility and how to respond
- SAM.gov lists no set-aside, but the notice text limits who can bid:
- The notice text says this is set aside for small businesses, but SAM.gov lists no set-aside. Ask the contracting officer which one applies before you bid.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to afton.riles@usace.army.mil. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 26, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- W07V ENDIST Vicksburg, MS
- Product/service code
- 5410 · Prefabricated and Portable Buildings
- Business type
- Manufactured parts & equipment (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 332311)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 26, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 6, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 21, 2026 · Combined Synopsis/SolicitationDue Nov 4, 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
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