Solicitation
Design-Build Services – STM Security Fencing - North Boundary
Department of Energy
AI summaryAlliance for Energy Innovation, LLC, a Department of Energy (DOE) contractor running the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), wants a design-build subcontractor to design and install new security fencing along the North boundary of the South Table Mountain (STM) Campus in Golden, CO. Only small businesses can bid; the response due date is November 11, 2026, 5:00 PM Mountain. The full Statement of Work (SOW) and submission instructions are in documents not included here. More in the summary
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Alliance for Energy Innovation, LLC, a Department of Energy (DOE) contractor running the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), wants a design-build subcontractor to design and install new security fencing along the North boundary of the South Table Mountain (STM) Campus in Golden, CO. Only small businesses can bid; the response due date is November 11, 2026, 5:00 PM Mountain. The full Statement of Work (SOW) and submission instructions are in documents not included here.
Who can bid
- Small business set-aside (per the SAM.gov fields): only small businesses under NAICS 238990 can bid
- Design work must meet applicable codes, NLR Design Standards and required CAD/BIM formats
Things to watch (5)
From the version posted Oct 30, 2026.
- Serious: Small business set-aside. SAM.gov lists this as a total small business set-aside, so only small businesses can bid.
- Worth checking: Requirements are in the SOW. The notice is only a summary; the SOW holds the scope, deliverables, safety and submission details.
- Worth checking: Design and construction both required. A bidder needs design capability (or a design partner) as well as fence construction crews.
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- Minor: Historic preservation coordination. Working with the State Historic Preservation Office can add review steps and schedule time.
- Minor: Procore required. All project documents must go through Procore, a construction software platform.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Design new perimeter fencing, with 50% and 90% design reviews and a 100% Issued-for-Construction package
- Install the new fencing along the STM Campus North boundary
- Remove designated sections of existing chain-link fence
- Coordinate parts of the work with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
- Use Procore for all project documents, including drawings, specifications, RFIs and submittals
- Do utility locates before excavation, plus erosion control and waste tracking
- Provide project management, on-site supervision and an approved Quality Assurance Plan
- Deliver as-built documents, testing records and turnover materials at completion
- Contract type
- Design-build subcontract
- Place of performance
- South Table Mountain (STM) Campus, Golden, CO
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 11, 2026, 5:00 PM Mountain
What to include when you submit
- Read the full SOW and its exhibits, which govern all requirements
Not in the notice text
- The full SOW, exhibits, submission instructions and evaluation method are in the solicitation documents on SAM.gov, not in this text
- How to submit (email or portal) is not stated in the notice text
- 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
- Contract value, length of fence and schedule are not stated
- What changed in the later versions of this notice is not stated
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 238990
- 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
- Oct 30, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- Alliance for Energy Innovation, LLC - DOE Contractor, Golden, CO
- Product/service code
- 5660 · Fencing, Fences, Gates and Components
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 238990)
- Versions
4 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 30, 2026 · Amendment 0003 (this version)Due Nov 11, 2026
- Oct 22, 2026 · Amendment 0002Due Nov 11, 2026
- Oct 8, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 11, 2026
- Oct 7, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 11, 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
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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