Presolicitation
Project # 528A6-26-607 Replace Flooring for Rm. 140 B76 | Bath VAMC
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryVeterans Affairs (Network Contracting Office 2) plans to post an invitation for bids (IFB: a sealed-bid solicitation won on lowest price) on or about October 28, 2026, to replace flooring in Building 76, Rooms 140 and 140A, at the Bath, NY VA Medical Center. It is set aside 100% for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB), and bid bonding will be required. The work must finish within 60 days of the Notice to Proceed, and award is anticipated on or about November 2026. More in the summary
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The notice looks incomplete: The IFB, specifications, drawings and bid forms are not posted yet; they are to be posted on SAM.gov with the solicitation. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Veterans Affairs (Network Contracting Office 2) plans to post an invitation for bids (IFB: a sealed-bid solicitation won on lowest price) on or about October 28, 2026, to replace flooring in Building 76, Rooms 140 and 140A, at the Bath, NY VA Medical Center. It is set aside 100% for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB), and bid bonding will be required. The work must finish within 60 days of the Notice to Proceed, and award is anticipated on or about November 2026.
Who can bid
- Must be a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB); the procurement is 100% set aside for SDVOSB
- Bid bond required to respond to the IFB once it is released
- Must be small under the size standard for NAICS 236220 ($45.0M)
How to submit: Bids accepted electronically only once the solicitation is released; send questions by email only to the Contracting Officer, Idalia Algarin, Idalia.Algarin@va.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (7)
From the version posted Oct 13, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside: only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses can bid. Firms without SDVOSB status cannot send a bid on this 100% set-aside.
- Serious: Bid bond required. A bid bond (a surety's guarantee that you will sign the contract if you win) is needed with the bid; a small firm must line up a surety ahead of time.
- Worth checking: Presolicitation only: no response due date yet. SAM.gov gives no response deadline; the solicitation is expected on or about October 28, 2026, and the bid due date will be in it.
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- Worth checking: Solicitation timing is stated two ways. The notice says the solicitation will post on or about October 28, 2026, but also that materials should be available on or about June 2026.
- Worth checking: Site visit details not yet given. A site visit is scheduled, but its date and whether it is required will appear in the solicitation.
- Worth checking: Work in a working hospital with possible off-hours work. Work hours may be restricted and off-hours work may be needed, as the COR directs, which can raise labor cost.
- Minor: 60-day completion window. All work, including the X-ray electrical changes, must finish within 60 days of the Notice to Proceed.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- 36C24227B0004.docx (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Replace the existing flooring in Building 76, Rooms 140 and 140A, per the design documents
- Electrical changes for X-ray equipment: extend power conduits and cables, install new power switches, add equipment structural support
- Other related work shown in the design drawings
- Provide all supervision, labor, services, tools, equipment and materials
- Work around hospital operations, with restricted hours or off-hours work as the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) directs
- Finish all work within 60 days of receiving the Notice to Proceed
- Contract type
- Invitation for bids (IFB) for construction; single contract award planned
- Period of performance
- 60 days from receiving the Notice to Proceed
- Place of performance
- Bath VA Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, NY 14810
- Estimated value
- Magnitude of the project is between $25,000 and $100,000
- How to submit
- Bids accepted electronically only once the solicitation is released; send questions by email only to the Contracting Officer, Idalia Algarin, Idalia.Algarin@va.gov
What to include when you submit
- Get the solicitation, specifications, drawings and forms from SAM.gov, where they are posted in electronic format only
- Acknowledge every amendment by the time of bid opening
- Include a bid bond with the bid once the IFB is released
Not in the notice text
- The IFB, specifications, drawings and bid forms are not posted yet; they are to be posted on SAM.gov with the solicitation
- Bid due date and time, site visit date, and whether the site visit is required
- Wage rule (Davis-Bacon wage determination) and bonding amounts: not stated in this notice
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: Bids accepted electronically only once the solicitation is released; send questions by email only to the Contracting Officer, Idalia Algarin, Idalia.Algarin@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 13, 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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