Presolicitation
Design-Build Repair Storm Sewer Lines at U.S. Coast Guard Base San Juan, Puerto Rico Project Number: PN 15852459
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Coast Guard
AI summaryThe U.S. Coast Guard plans an invitation for bid (IFB, a sealed price bid) set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) to repair storm sewer lines at Base San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is a firm-fixed-price design-build job with a 290 calendar day period and an estimated magnitude between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. SAM.gov lists November 9, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern as the response date, but the notice takes no bids until the IFB is posted. More in the summary
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The U.S. Coast Guard plans an invitation for bid (IFB, a sealed price bid) set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) to repair storm sewer lines at Base San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is a firm-fixed-price design-build job with a 290 calendar day period and an estimated magnitude between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. SAM.gov lists November 9, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern as the response date, but the notice takes no bids until the IFB is posted.
Who can bid
- Be a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and a small business under NAICS 237110 ($45 million average annual receipts), at bid submission and at award
- Be registered in SAM at bid submission and throughout contract performance
- Bid bond, payment bond and performance bond
How to submit: Not stated; the IFB will give bid-submission instructions. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 26, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside. Only SDVOSB firms that are also small under the size standard can bid.
- Serious: Three bonds required. You need a surety to provide bid, payment and performance bonds on a job of $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.
- Worth checking: Design plus construction in 290 days. The contractor must produce an accepted design before repairs start, and all of it fits in the 290-day period.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Review the Storm Water Master Plan for Coast Guard Sector San Juan, prepared in December 2013 by URS Infrastructure and Environmental
- Verify the horizontal and vertical locations of affected utilities and field-check existing conditions
- Find out whether the work creates hazardous waste and collect material samples as needed
- Prepare design drawings, specifications, a construction schedule and a phasing plan for Government review
- After the design is accepted, repair storm sewer lines and remove sediment from inlets, catch basins, culverts and pipes
- Do the demolition, disposal, restoration, testing and closeout needed for a complete, working system
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price design-build construction contract, to be bid as an invitation for bids (IFB)
- Period of performance
- 290 calendar days, including design and construction
- Place of performance
- U.S. Coast Guard Base San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Estimated value
- Estimated magnitude between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000
- How they'll choose
- Lowest-priced responsive bid from an SDVOSB bidder, subject to a responsibility determination
- How to submit
- Not stated; the IFB will give bid-submission instructions
What they'll judge offers on
- Price (lowest-priced bid that conforms to the solicitation)
What to include when you submit
- Do not send bids until the IFB is posted on SAM.gov
- Have an active SAM registration and a current SDVOSB status in SBA and SAM systems at bid submission and at award
- Provide a bid bond, a payment bond and a performance bond
- Put the project name and PN 15852459 on all correspondence
Not in the notice text
- The IFB with the bid opening date and time, bid schedule, specifications and drawings has not been posted
- Whether there is a site visit is not stated; the notice says site-visit information will be in the IFB
- Which wage rule applies (a Davis-Bacon wage determination) is not stated
- The anticipated schedule lists solicitation issuance in October 2026, bid opening in November 2026 and contract completion in September 2027, all estimates
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 237110
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Not stated; the IFB will give bid-submission instructions. 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 26, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- Ceu Miami, FL
- Product/service code
- Y1ND · Construction of Sewage and Waste Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237110)
- 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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