Solicitation
Con | Z1DA | Replace Or Chillers | 580-23-105 | Solicitation
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryThe Department of Veterans Affairs wants a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) to remove and replace two operating room (OR) chillers in Building 100 at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas (solicitation 36C25626R0130, project 580-23-105). It is a firm-fixed-price construction contract valued between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, with 432 calendar days from the notice to proceed. The response due date is December 2, 2026, 2:00 PM Central. More in the summary
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The Department of Veterans Affairs wants a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) to remove and replace two operating room (OR) chillers in Building 100 at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas (solicitation 36C25626R0130, project 580-23-105). It is a firm-fixed-price construction contract valued between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, with 432 calendar days from the notice to proceed. The response due date is December 2, 2026, 2:00 PM Central.
Who can bid (4)
- Service-disabled veteran-owned small business, certified in SBA VetCert with NAICS 238220 listed
- Small under NAICS 238220, size standard $19 million in average annual receipts
- Registered in SAM (www.sam.gov) with online representations and certifications completed before the solicitation due date
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- Bid bond with the proposal
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 29, 2026.
- Serious: Only certified SDVOSBs can bid. A business must be certified as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business in SBA VetCert, with NAICS 238220, by the time it bids.
- Serious: Bid bond, then performance and payment bonds. A bidder needs a surety for a bid bond on a $1 million to $2 million job, and full bonds if it wins.
- Worth checking: Notice calls itself a pre-solicitation. SAM.gov lists this as a solicitation, but the text says it is only a pre-solicitation notice and questions open after the solicitation is published; check SAM.gov for the RFP documents.
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- Worth checking: Work in an operating hospital. Replacing operating room chillers in a working medical center needs careful scheduling to keep surgery spaces running.
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Full summary
What they want
- Remove and replace two operating room chillers in Building 100
- General construction, demolition, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and HVAC work per the construction documents
- All supervision, labor, material, tools and equipment
- Work per the issued-for-construction drawings and specifications
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) construction contract
- Period of performance
- 432 calendar days from the notice to proceed
- Place of performance
- Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Building 100, Houston, Texas
- Estimated value
- Magnitude of construction between $1,000,000.00 and $2,000,000.00
- Offers due
- Dec 2, 2026, 2:00 PM Central
What to include when you submit
- Submit a bid bond with the proposal
- Keep the proposal open for acceptance for 90 days
- Get the specifications, drawings and amendments from SAM.gov; hard copies will not be mailed
After award, you must have
- Performance and payment bonds from the business that wins From the notice:
Performance and Payment bonds will be required from the contractor receiving the award.
- At least 15 percent of personnel costs spent on the firm's own employees or other eligible SDVOSBs' employees From the notice:
At least 15 percent of the cost of the contract performance incurred for personnel shall be spent on the concern's employees…
Not in the notice text
- The RFP's evaluation factors and proposal instructions aren't in the notice text; they are in the solicitation documents on SAM.gov.
- Whether there is a site visit, and whether it is required
- Which wage rule applies (a Davis-Bacon wage determination)
- How to submit proposals
- Question deadline
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 238220
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
- 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 29, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- 256-Network Contract Office 16 (36C256), Ridgeland, MS
- Product/service code
- Z1DA · Maintenance of Hospitals and Infirmaries
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 238220)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 29, 2026 · Amendment 0002 (this version)Due Dec 2, 2026
- Oct 29, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Dec 2, 2026
- Oct 29, 2026 · SolicitationDue Dec 2, 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
- Open SDVOSB set-aside 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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