Sources Sought
FDA Lab Renovation in Silver Spring, MD
General Services Administration · Public Buildings Service
AI summaryThe General Services Administration (GSA) is running a sources sought notice (market research, not a request for proposals) for construction to renovate 32 laboratories and equipment rooms in Building 64 of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. The designs are complete and the job is design-bid-build, estimated at 18 months. Capability statements are due November 5, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Public Buildings Service who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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The General Services Administration (GSA) is running a sources sought notice (market research, not a request for proposals) for construction to renovate 32 laboratories and equipment rooms in Building 64 of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. The designs are complete and the job is design-bid-build, estimated at 18 months. Capability statements are due November 5, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern.
Who can bid (4)
- Active SAM.gov registration (the notice asks respondents to say whether they have one)
- Two similar projects over $5,000,000 completed in the past five years as general contractor (prime); subcontract work does not count
- Bonding capability for a single project up to $10,000,000, plus aggregate bonding capacity
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- Experience with security-related construction in occupied Federal or similarly secure facilities
How to submit: Email to Shane Fawcett (GSA Contracting Officer) at william.fawcett@gsa.gov, files totaling no more than 25 megabytes, with the subject line "Silver Spring, MD FDA Lab Renovation Request For Information Response". 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 14, 2026.
- Serious: Prime experience over $5 million and bonding up to $10 million. Respondents must show two similar prime projects over $5,000,000 within five years and proof of bonding up to $10,000,000, which can rule out smaller builders.
- Worth checking: Market research only; no set-aside decided yet. This is not a request for proposals. GSA may set the later work aside for small, HUBZone, women-owned or service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses if enough of them show they are capable, so responding is how a small business gets counted.
- Worth checking: Work inside a live, occupied laboratory. Construction happens in a working research lab, so the contractor must limit disruption to lab tests and keep safety and security controls in place.
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- Worth checking: Davis-Bacon wages likely apply. Federal construction over $2,000 in the U.S. pays at least the Davis-Bacon wage rates in the wage determination attached to the solicitation. This summary doesn't name one: find it on SAM.gov and price your labor from it.
- Minor: Five-page limit on responses. Pages beyond five are not considered, so the capability statement must be short.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- Sources Sought Notice Silver Spring MD FDA Lab Renovation.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Renovate 13 laboratories and equipment rooms on the first floor and 19 on the second floor of Building 64
- Install a bulk nitrogen storage and distribution system for both floors, with a reinforced concrete pad outside the building
- Build a mass spectrometry suite, a chemical storage room and a cell culture lab on the second floor
- Install specialized heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) with strict control of pressure, humidity and air quality, including HEPA/ULPA filtration
- Install high-purity gas piping and mission-critical plumbing
- Replace or modify security doors, frames, glazing, windows, storefront systems and card readers
- Electrical work, including 120/240-volt power, low-voltage security systems and changes to an uninterruptible power supply
- Work inside an occupied, fully functioning research laboratory while limiting disruption to ongoing lab tests
- Period of performance
- Estimated 18 months (one and a half years); award anticipated in Summer 2027
- Place of performance
- Federal Research Center, Building 64, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland
- Estimated value
- Government's estimate: between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000
- Offers due
- November 5, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to Shane Fawcett (GSA Contracting Officer) at william.fawcett@gsa.gov, files totaling no more than 25 megabytes, with the subject line "Silver Spring, MD FDA Lab Renovation Request For Information Response"
- Page limits
- Letter of Interest with Capability Statement: 5 single-sided pages in PDF; additional pages will not be considered
What to include when you submit
- Send a Letter of Interest with a Capability Statement as a PDF of no more than five single-sided pages
- Give company name, Unique Entity ID (SAM), address, and point of contact with phone and email
- Say whether your company has an active registration at www.sam.gov
- State business size for NAICS 236220 and any other designations (8(a), Small Disadvantaged Business, HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Women-Owned)
- Describe two projects of similar scope, size, complexity and duration, each over $5,000,000, completed within the past five years as general contractor, with customer names and phone numbers, timeliness of performance and dollar values. Work done as a subcontractor does not count as evidence of prime capability
- Provide evidence of bonding capability for a single project up to $10,000,000, and evidence of aggregate bonding capacity
- If part of a joint venture, name the members and give each member's business size
- If responding from outside the area of the work, include a narrative on how you would perform at a fair and reasonable price
- Show experience performing security-related construction in occupied Federal or similarly secure facilities while limiting disruption to ongoing laboratory tests
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The notice does not give responses received or the number of awards planned; the Government's estimate is $5,000,000 to $10,000,000.
Not in the notice text
- The set-aside is not stated on SAM.gov; GSA will decide after market research whether to set the work aside
- No solicitation has been issued, so evaluation method, proposal due date, contract type and bid documents are not yet known
- The notice says the designs are complete but does not say where they will be posted
- Whether there's a site visit: this summary doesn't say. Check the solicitation and its amendments on SAM.gov.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
- 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 14, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- PBS Project Delivery Capital Construction - Branch Central, Washington, DC
- Product/service code
- Z2AA · Repair or Alteration of Office Buildings
- 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
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Construction Services for the Federal Research Center of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 1st and 2nd Floor Mass Spec and Multiple Labs Project in Building 64 located on the main campus, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. RESPONSES TO THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ARE DUE NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 5, 2026, AT 2:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. Electronic submission (no more than 25 megabytes) of the statement of capabilities package may be submitted to: Shane Fawcett (GSA Contracting Officer) at william.fawcett@gsa.gov. Please include the subject line: “Silver Spring, MD FDA Lab Renovation Request For Information Response”. Please see the attached Sources Sought Notice for further details.
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