Solicitation
Solicitation: Construct Combat Rescue Helicopter Flight Simulator Facility at Moffett ANGB
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe U.S. Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO) for California wants a contractor to build a Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) flight simulator facility at Moffett Air National Guard Base, Mountain View, California (solicitation W50S8X26BA011). It is one firm-fixed-price construction contract for an approximately 8,202 gross square foot building, set aside for small businesses, with 570 calendar days in Block 11 per Amendment 0002. All solicitation documents, plans and amendments are in the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE). More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Nov 2, 2026. See the latest version.
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Summary of the version posted Oct 28, 2026. The notice was amended Nov 2, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. Some details are in the notice's attachments, which this summary didn't read. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The U.S. Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO) for California wants a contractor to build a Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) flight simulator facility at Moffett Air National Guard Base, Mountain View, California (solicitation W50S8X26BA011). It is one firm-fixed-price construction contract for an approximately 8,202 gross square foot building, set aside for small businesses, with 570 calendar days in Block 11 per Amendment 0002. All solicitation documents, plans and amendments are in the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE).
Who can bid
- Small business set-aside: only small businesses under NAICS 236220 can bid (per SAM.gov)
How to submit: As set out in the solicitation on PIEE (Standard Form 1442, Block 13). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
- Serious: Small businesses only. SAM.gov lists a total small business set-aside under NAICS 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction.
- Worth checking: All documents are on PIEE. Plans, specifications, amendments and answers are only in PIEE, so a PIEE account is needed to bid.
- Worth checking: Many amendments and Q&A rounds. Three amendments and four Q&A rounds changed the duration, attachments and deadlines, and each must be read and acknowledged.
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- Minor: Secure telecom rooms. The building includes secure telecommunication rooms, which usually carry special construction standards; check the specifications.
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Full summary
What they want
- Construct an approximately 8,202 gross square foot CRH Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) simulator facility
- Multi-story high bay area to house the CRH-OFT simulator
- Single-story area with mission planning, briefing and debriefing rooms and admin areas
- OFT maintenance and parts storage rooms, secure and non-secure telecommunication rooms
- Latrines and mechanical, electrical and utility support rooms
- All plant, labor, transportation, materials, tools, equipment and supervision
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing), single award, construction
- Period of performance
- 570 calendar days (Standard Form 1442 Block 11, revised by Amendment 0002)
- Place of performance
- Moffett Air National Guard Base, Mountain View, California
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 27, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific (from the version posted Oct 28, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- As set out in the solicitation on PIEE (Standard Form 1442, Block 13)
What to include when you submit
- Get the solicitation, plans and specifications from the PIEE Solicitation Module link for W50S8X26BA011
- Use the conformed Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442: the government's construction bid form) and acknowledge each SF 30 amendment
- Review Amendments 0001, 0002 and 0003 and the Questions & Answers (Round 4) in PIEE's Update/Notice section
- Review the Geotech Report, added as Attachment 10 by Amendment 0002
- Send pre-bid inquiries by the deadline in Section 00 21 00, paragraph 4.3, as changed by Amendment 0003
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation, plans, specifications, amendments and Q&A are on PIEE, not in the notice text.
- The site visit date, time and location are in Amendment 0001 on PIEE, and whether attendance is required isn't stated.
- Which Davis-Bacon wage determination applies isn't stated in the text.
- The pre-bid inquiry deadline set by Amendment 0003 isn't given in the text.
- Bid bond and performance and payment bond requirements and the magnitude of construction aren't stated.
- How bids are evaluated isn't 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 236220
- How to submit, from the AI summary: As set out in the solicitation on PIEE (Standard Form 1442, Block 13). 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 28, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- W7MX Uspfo Activity Caang 129, Moffett Field, CA
- Product/service code
- Y1AZ · Construction of Other Administrative Facilities and Service Buildings
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
13 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 27, 2026
- Oct 28, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 27, 2026
- Oct 28, 2026 · Amendment 0003 (this version)Due Nov 27, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 22, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 13, 2026
- Oct 22, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 13, 2026
- Oct 15, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 13, 2026
- Oct 15, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 13, 2026
- Oct 8, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 13, 2026
- Oct 8, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 13, 2026
- Oct 5, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 13, 2026
- Oct 5, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 13, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 29, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 11, 2026
- Sep 29, 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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