Presolicitation
528A8-22-814 Consolidate Primary Care Reception
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryPresolicitation 36C24227B0006: the Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contracting Office 02) plans to post a construction solicitation, expected on or about November 6, 2026, for a new primary care reception area at the Albany VA Medical Center in Albany, NY. Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs: firms owned and run by veterans with service-connected disabilities) can bid. The estimated construction value is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00, and a bid bond will be required. More in the summary
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Presolicitation 36C24227B0006: the Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contracting Office 02) plans to post a construction solicitation, expected on or about November 6, 2026, for a new primary care reception area at the Albany VA Medical Center in Albany, NY. Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs: firms owned and run by veterans with service-connected disabilities) can bid. The estimated construction value is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00, and a bid bond will be required.
Who can bid
- Must be a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB); the buy is 100% set aside for these firms
- Small under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 236220, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, which has a size standard of $45M
- Bid bond (a guarantee from a surety company backing your bid)
How to submit: Email only to the Contracting Officer, Michael.Spivack@va.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 23, 2026.
- Serious: Only SDVOSBs can bid. The buy is set aside 100% for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, so other firms cannot bid as the prime contractor.
- Serious: Bid bond required. You will need a surety company to issue a bid bond before you can submit a bid, which can take time to arrange.
- Worth checking: Site visit details not yet given. The notice mentions a scheduled site visit but gives no date or whether it is required; those details come in the solicitation.
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- Minor: Email-only bids and no mailing list. Bids and correspondence go by email only, and the contracting specialist will not send amendments or keep a list of interested firms, so you must watch SAM.gov yourself.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- 36C24227B0006.docx (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Build a new reception area with six (6) Medical Support Assistant (MSA) desks and a waiting lobby at the Albany VA Medical Center
- Supply all labor, materials, tools, equipment and supervision for the Consolidate Primary Care Reception project (528A8-22-814)
- Help combine the primary care units now on the 1st, 4th and 8th floors of Building 1 (blue, red and silver teams) into the first-floor core
- Relocate the Agent Cashiers office in the existing space
- Contract type
- Construction project to be bid as an invitation for bids (IFB: a sealed-bid style solicitation); contract pricing type not stated
- Place of performance
- Albany VA Medical Center, 113 Holland Avenue, Albany NY 12208
- Estimated value
- Between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00 (estimated construction value stated in the notice)
- How to submit
- Email only to the Contracting Officer, Michael.Spivack@va.gov
What to include when you submit
- Solicitation materials (Information for Proposal Details, Specifications, Drawings and Contract Forms) will be on SAM.gov in electronic form only, expected on or about November 6, 2026
- Include a bid bond with the bid; one is required for this IFB once it is released
- Get and acknowledge every amendment, which will be posted on SAM.gov, and attach the acknowledgments to the bid
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation, specifications and drawings are not posted yet and are expected on SAM.gov on or about November 6, 2026
- The response due date for bids, the site visit date and whether the site visit is required
- The bid bond amount, the contract period and how the award will be decided
- Which wage rule applies (a Davis-Bacon wage determination) 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 to submit, from the AI summary: Email only to the Contracting Officer, Michael.Spivack@va.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- 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 23, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- 242-Network Contract Office 02 (36C242), Albany, NY
- Product/service code
- Z1DA · Maintenance 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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