Solicitation
D.C. Metro Area Multiple Award Indefinite Quantity Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) Contract for Construction Services
General Services Administration · Public Buildings Service · Sol. 47PH5226R0003
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GSA's Public Buildings Service plans to award about 18 multiple-award IDIQ contracts for general construction, repair and modernization work at federal buildings in the Washington, DC metro area. It is a small business set-aside with reserved slots for 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB and SDVOSB firms. The contract has a 1-year base plus four 1-year options (5 years), with a $500M total ordering ceiling.
Watch out for
- $10M bonding capacity per project (Go/No Go). If your surety cannot support $10M per project you are knocked out before technical scoring.
Evidence of Bonding Capacity: Go/No Go. (Minimum- $10M per project)
- Many awardees competing for each task order. About 18 contract holders will compete for every task order, and a contract does not guarantee any work.
The government intends to award approximately eighteen (18) contracts
- Large, complex and secure-facility work. Task orders run up to $10M and can include SCIFs, data centers and high-security buildings, which may need clearances or special experience.
work in technically sensitive environments like laboratories, SCIF’s etc., work in high-security data centers and critical infrastructure control systems
- Pre-proposal conference registration deadline is days away. You must register by Oct 5 to get the meeting link for the Oct 6 conference.
Registration is required by Monday, October 5, 2026 at 3:00PM EST.
- Must acknowledge every amendment. Three amendments have been issued; failing to acknowledge them with your proposal can be a basis for rejection.
OFFERORS MUST ACKNOWLEDGE ALL AMENDMENTS WITH THEIR PROPOSAL.
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Full brief
What they want
- General construction, repair, alteration and modernization of existing federal facilities
- Office construction and renovations, MEP (mechanical/electrical/plumbing) and fire sprinkler work
- Sitework, exterior repairs (facades, roofs), demolition including hazardous material abatement
- Elevator modernizations
- Work in sensitive spaces such as laboratories, SCIFs, high-security data centers and secure buildings
- Design-build as well as design-bid-build projects
- Act as single point of responsibility for each task order project
- Contract type
- Multiple-award IDIQ; task orders competed among awardees (fair opportunity)
- Period of performance
- 1 base year + 4 one-year option periods (5 years total)
- Place of performance
- Washington, DC, plus Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun Counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church in Virginia, and Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland; the Government may expand the area
- Estimated value
- Maximum ordering limit of $500,000,000 across all awardees over 5 years; typical task orders $350,000 to $10,000,000
- How they'll choose
- Highest technically rated with a fair and reasonable price; non-price factors combined are significantly more important than price; award possible without negotiations
- Offers due
- Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 4:00PM Eastern Time
What they'll judge offers on
- Prior Experience (more important than Past Performance)
- Past Performance
- Evidence of Bonding Capacity (Go/No Go, minimum $10M per project)
What to include when you submit
- Offerors must acknowledge all amendments (001, 002, 003) with their proposal
- Download the solicitation from SAM.gov and monitor for amendments; no paper copies
- Register for the virtual pre-proposal conference (Google Meet) by Monday, October 5, 2026 at 3:00PM EST; the conference is Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at 10:00AM Eastern Time
- Questions go to Jay Oxenberg at jay.oxenberg@gsa.gov
You must have
- Small business total set-aside, with reserved awards for 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB and SDVOSB firms (three each, target of twelve reserves)
The Procurement will be a Total Small Business Set-Aside with Reserves.
- Must be small under the $45M size standard for NAICS 236220
Small Business Size Standard: $45M
- Evidence of bonding capacity of at least $10M per project (pass/fail)
Evidence of Bonding Capacity: Go/No Go. (Minimum- $10M per project)
- Active SAM.gov registration
Potential offerors must be registered in SAM.gov.
Not in the notice text
- Exact proposal submission method and page limits (in the solicitation document)
- Detailed technical factor requirements and how Prior Experience and Past Performance are scored
- Details of how the 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB and SDVOSB reserves work
- Answers to pre-proposal questions (Amendment 003 attachment)
- Whether any clearances are required for secure-facility task orders
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 29, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 1, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- 47PH5226R0003
- Agency
- General Services Administration · Public Buildings Service
- Office
- PBS Centralized Acquisition Services Idv - East
- Set-aside
- Small Business Set Aside - Total
- NAICS
- 236220
- Product/service code
- Z2AA
- Business type
- Construction & renovation
- Place of performance
- Washington, DC
- Contracting contact
- Jay Oxenbergjay.oxenberg@gsa.gov
- Versions
- 5 (amended since first posted)
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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