Presolicitation
Remedial Action (RA) activities at the Kahuku Point Former Radio Range site
Department of Transportation · Federal Aviation Administration
AI summaryOnly small businesses that answer this presolicitation by November 5, 2026, 3:00 PM Central will get the future solicitation. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to hire a contractor to dig up 3,768 tons of soil contaminated with lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the Kahuku Point Former Radio Range site on Oahu, Hawaii, and dispose of it offsite. It also wants five groundwater monitoring wells removed. More in the summary
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Only small businesses that answer this presolicitation by November 5, 2026, 3:00 PM Central will get the future solicitation. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to hire a contractor to dig up 3,768 tons of soil contaminated with lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the Kahuku Point Former Radio Range site on Oahu, Hawaii, and dispose of it offsite. It also wants five groundwater monitoring wells removed.
Who can bid
- Be a Small Business Administration (SBA) small business concern; the set-aside is for small businesses only
- Respond to this presolicitation with the requested information to receive the future solicitation
How to submit: Email to Sonia.o.holguin@faa.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (5)
From the version posted Oct 26, 2026.
- Serious: Small business set-aside. Only small businesses can take part; a larger firm cannot be the prime contractor.
- Serious: No response now means no future solicitation. A business that does not send the requested information is shut out of receiving the later solicitation.
- Worth checking: Funds not currently available. The FAA says funding is not in place yet, so the solicitation may not go forward as planned.
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- Worth checking: Contractor handles all permits and regulatory approvals. The contractor must obtain every permit and permission, and its submittals need approval from the FAA and other local, state, and federal regulators.
- Minor: Statement of work not attached. The full statement of work and site reports are not posted yet; reports will come with the solicitation.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Excavate 3,768 tons of lead- and PCB-contaminated soil: 3.2 acres, average depth 1 foot, 0.73 tons per cubic yard
- Store, transport, and dispose of the soil and other waste from the work, including sampling needed for disposal
- Decommission and remove five (5) shallow groundwater monitoring wells; no drill rig needed
- Find all buried utilities and file locate requests before site work
- Use GIS (geographic information system) mapping to mark the dig-area perimeters in the field to 1 foot horizontal accuracy
- Obtain all permits and send all notifications, and submit project documents before and after the work
- Backfilling and confirmation sampling are not required
- Place of performance
- Kahuku Point Former Radio Range site, North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii (Kahuku, HI)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Lowest price technically acceptable (the lowest-priced offer that meets the requirements wins)
- Offers due
- November 5, 2026, 3:00 PM Central
- How to submit
- Email to Sonia.o.holguin@faa.gov
- Page limits
- Complete responses: no more than five pages
What to include when you submit
- Send your capability statement with: company name (the future prime contractor), address, point of contact name, email and telephone, and UEI (unique entity identifier) number
- Include relevant experience on similar projects within the last five years, with specific contract numbers and contact names and emails
- Mark PROPRIETARY on all documents submitted, as applicable
Not in the notice text
- The full statement of work and the site reports will be available at the time of solicitation; they are not attached to this notice.
- The solicitation date, contract type, period of performance, and estimated value are not stated.
- Whether bonding, insurance, or a hazardous waste license will be required is not stated.
- The text refers to an attached Figure 2 showing the dig areas; it was not available to read.
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 562910
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to Sonia.o.holguin@faa.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 26, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- 697DCK Regional Acquisitions SVCS, Fort Worth, TX
- Product/service code
- F108 · Environmental Systems Protection – Environmental Remediation
- Business type
- Environmental & natural resources (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 562910)
- 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
- Set-aside contracts explained
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contemplates issuing a Screening Information Request (SIR) for Remedial Action (RA) activities at the Kahuku Point Former Radio Range site (Site), located on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Activities include excavating 3,768 tons of soil contaminated with lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and disposing of the soil offsite according to applicable regulations. The purpose of this pre-solicitation is to solicit statements of interest and capabilities from Small Business Administration (SBA) small business concerns capable of performing the type of work described in this notice. The Contractor will provide all equipment, supplies, labor, transportation, and supervision necessary to perform the tasks described in the scope of work (SOW), not attached. The SOW includes, but is not limited to, the following: - The Contractor must excavate contaminated soil that was identified in reports that will be available at time of solicitation. - The Contractor must arrange for proper storage, transport, and disposal of all investigation-derived waste (IDW) generated from this RA, including necessary sampling for proper disposal. Backfilling of the excavated area will not be required. - Excavation, hauling, and disposal, quantities are as follows: Area to be excavated: 3.2 acres. Average depth of excavation: 1 foot. Average density of excavated soil excavation reports at the site): 0.73 tons per cubic yard. Total tons to be excavated: 3,768 tons. - The Contractor must decommission and remove the five (5) groundwater monitoring wells at the Site. The wells must be decommissioned according to the regulatory requirements of HDOH. The wells are very shallow and will not require the use of a drill rig for removal. - The Contractor must identify all buried utility systems where subsurface work will take place. A request for locate services with the appropriate public utility dig-line for the area must be filed within the required timeline prior to site work. - The Contractor must use GIS to generate the survey coordinates of the perimeters of the DUs to be excavated according to the attached Figure 2. The perimeters of the DUs to be excavated must be located in the field to the horizontal accuracy of 1 foot. - The Contractor is responsible for obtaining all permits and permissions and submitting all notifications required to complete this scope of work. - The Contractor is required to submit pre and post project documentation for this contract. Acceptance of Contractor submittals is subject to the approval of the FAA and other local, state, and federal regulatory agencies as applicable to the specific project. - Confirmation sampling is not required in this solicitation. Any sampling and analysis required for waste characterization purposes must be conducted according to requirements of the facility accepting the waste. In order to better understand the market for this potential requirement, the FAA requests the following information from interested small business vendors (no preference given at this time): 1. Name of Company (the resultant Prime contractor that may ultimately be awarded the subsequent contract) 2. Address 3. Point of Contact name, email address and telephone number 4. UEI Number 5. Relevant experience on similar projects within the last five years. Please provide specific contract numbers, contact names and email information to support claimed capabilities. Please submit your capability statement and the above information to Sonia.o.holguin@faa.gov no later than November 5, 2026 by 1500 Central Daylight Savings Time. Failure to respond to this pre-solicitation with the information requested above will preclude a Contractor’s ability to receive a copy of the future solicitation. Subsequent award will be made on lowest price technically acceptable basis. Limit complete responses to no more than five pages. Information will not be released; however, mark PROPRIETARY on all documents submitted, as applicable. Funds are not currently available for this requirement.