Presolicitation
Maine Air National Guard Fuel Cell Hangar (FCH), Project No. FKNN159044
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe Maine Air National Guard plans an unrestricted Invitation for Bids (IFB: sealed bids) for a new 42,374 square foot Fuel Cell Hangar at Bangor Air National Guard Base, Bangor, Maine. The solicitation has not been cleared for release and the dates have shifted. Tentative dates: questions due October 28, 2026, solicitation on or about November 20, 2026, and bid opening on or about November 6, 2026. Check the notice: its text gives October 28, 2026 as the date of a meeting or conference, not a question deadline. More in the summary
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The Maine Air National Guard plans an unrestricted Invitation for Bids (IFB: sealed bids) for a new 42,374 square foot Fuel Cell Hangar at Bangor Air National Guard Base, Bangor, Maine. The solicitation has not been cleared for release and the dates have shifted. Tentative dates: questions due October 28, 2026, solicitation on or about November 20, 2026, and bid opening on or about November 6, 2026. Check the notice: its text gives October 28, 2026 as the date of a meeting or conference, not a question deadline.
Who can bid
- Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM)
- Large businesses must submit a Small Business Subcontracting Plan
How to submit: Not stated; the solicitation and amendments are posted only on the Contract Opportunities page at SAM.gov, due November 6, 2026 (tentative bid opening, on or about). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 20, 2026.
- Worth checking: Solicitation not yet released. The notice says the solicitation has not been cleared for release, so the scope, drawings and bid forms are not available yet.
- Worth checking: Large project. A construction magnitude of $25 million to $100 million means bonding, financing and experience on large hangar-type projects will matter.
- Worth checking: Questions due October 28, 2026. Questions for the pre-bid conference go by email to 101.msg.msc.contracting@us.af.mil by this date, before the solicitation is tentatively issued. Check the notice: its text gives October 28, 2026 as the date of a meeting or conference, not a question deadline.
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- Minor: Pre-bid conference with site visit. The conference is strongly encouraged and a site visit follows; the notice does not say either is required. Location comes in the solicitation.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Build a new 42,374 square foot Fuel Cell Hangar at Bangor Air National Guard Base, Project No. FKNN159044
- Provide all plant, labor, transportation, materials, tools, equipment and supervision under a single firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) contract
- Finish within 670 calendar days after notice to proceed, including inspection and punch list
- Bid an option line item: additive bid item for satellite parking
- Use the brand-name components named for compatibility with existing systems: Sargent locks, Monaco fire alarm, Honeywell/Tridium Niagara-AX controls, Armstrong ceiling tiles, Sherwin Williams paint or approved equal
- Contract type
- Single firm-fixed-price contract for non-personal services, awarded through an Invitation for Bids, with one option line item (additive bid item for satellite parking)
- Period of performance
- 670 calendar days after notice to proceed, including inspection and punch list
- Place of performance
- Bangor Air National Guard Base, Bangor, Maine
- Estimated value
- Magnitude of construction between $25,000,000 and $100,000,000
- How they'll choose
- Invitation for Bids (sealed bids); the notice does not say how the winner is picked. The HUBZone price evaluation preference will apply
- Offers due
- November 6, 2026 (tentative bid opening, on or about)
- How to submit
- Not stated; the solicitation and amendments are posted only on the Contract Opportunities page at SAM.gov
What to include when you submit
- Large businesses must include a Small Business Subcontracting Plan, as set out in the solicitation
- To attend the pre-bid conference, follow the registration and base access requirements in the solicitation
Not in the notice text
- Which wage rule applies (for example a Davis-Bacon wage determination) is not stated
- Whether the site visit is required is not stated
- Bid submission method, bid guarantee or bonding requirements, and the pre-bid conference location are not in the notice
- Final dates: all dates are tentative until the solicitation is released
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Not stated; the solicitation and amendments are posted only on the Contract Opportunities page at SAM.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 20, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- W7NC Uspfo Activity Meang 101, Bangor, ME
- Product/service code
- Y1JZ · Construction of Miscellaneous Buildings
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 20, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)No date on SAM.gov
- Sep 21, 2026 · PresolicitationNo date on SAM.gov
- 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: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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