Solicitation
Turnout Buildings
Department of the Interior
AI summaryThe Bureau of Reclamation wants sealed bids to build seven water turnout buildings, with site work, in northwest New Mexico between Gallup and Shiprock, for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. It is a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) contract with a period of performance of December 16, 2026 to April 16, 2029. The response due date is November 10, 2026, 10:00 AM Mountain, when bids are opened; the lowest-priced responsible bidder with a bid guarantee wins, and the project size is given as $18,000,000 to $23,000,000. More in the summary
AI summary Beta
Summary of the version posted Oct 13, 2026. The notice was amended Oct 27, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 8 of 20 attachments weren't read (Turnout_Site_Tour_Sign-in_Sheet_26_AUG_2026_0001.pdf, 140R4026B0002_-_Attachment_2_1_00_00_02_-Drawings_-20261009_0002.pdf and 6 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Bureau of Reclamation wants sealed bids to build seven water turnout buildings, with site work, in northwest New Mexico between Gallup and Shiprock, for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. It is a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) contract with a period of performance of December 16, 2026 to April 16, 2029. The response due date is November 10, 2026, 10:00 AM Mountain, when bids are opened; the lowest-priced responsible bidder with a bid guarantee wins, and the project size is given as $18,000,000 to $23,000,000.
Who can bid
- Bid guarantee: proof of the appropriate bid guarantee with the bid
- Perform on the site, with the contractor's own organization, work equal to at least 30 percent of the total work (clause 52.236-1, added by Amendment 0002)
How to submit: Sealed bid. Email to Brittney Nielson (brittney_nielson@ios.doi.gov) and Amy Loveless (amy_loveless@ios.doi.gov); or mail or hand deliver to Philoma Singer, Bureau of Reclamation, Four Corners Construction Office, 1235 La Plata Highway, Farmington, NM 87401. Bonds may be sent electronically. Bids are opened at that office, or by Microsoft Teams if not in person.. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (12)
- Serious: Bid guarantee and bonds. A bid guarantee must be shown to win, and performance and payment bonds are due 21 days after award on a project of this size, so you need surety (bonding company) support before bidding.
- Worth checking: Large project, all seven sites priced together. The IFB sizes the work at $18 million to $23 million, and no offer is considered on only part of the price schedules.
- Worth checking: Contractor designs the buildings and foundations. No soil borehole reports or foundation designs exist for the sites, so the bidder must do the geotechnical investigation and foundation design and price that risk.
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- Worth checking: 30 percent self-performance on site. The contractor's own organization must do at least 30 percent of the work on the site, which limits how much can be subcontracted.
- Worth checking: Davis-Bacon wage rates by county. Pay must follow the Davis-Bacon wage determinations for San Juan and McKinley counties; the executive order minimum wage clause was removed.
- Worth checking: Strictly enforced environmental rules. Stormwater pollution prevention plan compliance is enforced closely, and fixes for missed items are at the contractor's cost.
- Worth checking: Archaeological finds can stop work. Cultural resource monitors may cause a temporary stop work order, and delays for known restrictions must be priced into the bid.
- Worth checking: Quantity surveys with every payment request. Survey notes, calculations and as-built drawings must go with each monthly progress payment request or it is not a proper invoice.
- Worth checking: New Mexico and Navajo Nation taxes. Gross receipts taxes must be estimated in the price and are repaid at actual rates with proof of payment, which adds paperwork and cash-flow risk.
- Worth checking: Outage windows and interim completion dates in the specifications. Work restrictions set outage windows and interim completion dates inside the 831-day performance period; that section was not read here.
- Minor: Bid opening date corrected to November 10, 2026. The original IFB page 97 gave November 12, 2026 for bid opening; the amended Section M and the SF 1442 give November 10, 2026, and the answer to the question about it says it was corrected.
- Minor: Subcontracting plan on request. The apparent low bidder must submit a small business subcontracting plan if the contracting officer asks; whether small firms are exempt is not stated in the text read.
Read from the notice and 12 attachments. 8 of 20 not read. Show which files.
- Sol_140R4026B0002_Amd_0003.pdf (read)
- Sol_140R4026B0002_Amd_0002.pdf (read)
- Sol_140R4026B0002_Amd_0001.pdf (read)
- Sol_140R4026B0002.pdf (read)
- IFB_140R4026B0002_NGWSP_Turnout_Buildings.pdf (read)
- 140R4026B0002_-_Attachment_1_1_00_00_01__Specifications__20261009_0002.pdf (read)
- _1_Attachment_00_00_01_NGWSP_TURNOUT_BLDGS_Specifications_20260707.pdf (read)
- Questions___Answers_0002.pdf (read)
- NGWSP_-_FCWR_Turnout_Buildings_Prebid__Site_Visit_-26_AUG_2026_0001.pdf (read)
- 140R4026B0002_-__Attachment_3_1_00_00_02A_Test_Pit_Log_TPTB-25-2_20261008_0002.pdf (read)
- _4_Attachment_Small_Business_Subcontracting_Plan.docx (read)
- Attachment__8_WD_NM20260024_Building_-_McKinley_County__NM_0002.pdf (read)
- Turnout_Site_Tour_Sign-in_Sheet_26_AUG_2026_0001.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 140R4026B0002_-_Attachment_2_1_00_00_02_-Drawings_-20261009_0002.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- Attachment__7_WD_NM20260011_Heavy_-_McKinley_County__NM_0002.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- 140R4026B0002_-_Attachment_3_1_00_00_02B_Corrosivity_Report_NGWSP_Turnout_Bldgs_20261009_0002.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- _2_Attachment_00_00_02_Drawings_Combined_34x22_20260707.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- _3_Attachment_00_00_02A_-_Geology_Drawings_04032026.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- _5_Attachment_WD_NM20260040_Heavy_-_San_Juan_County__NM.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- _6_Attachment_WD_NM20260046_Building_-_San_Juan_County__NM.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Build a precast concrete turnout building at each of seven sites: Sanostee, Newcomb, Naschitti, BBN9, Coyote Canyon, Rock Springs and Window Rock, with the contractor doing the geotechnical investigation, foundation design and building design
- Sitework at each site: buried piping, valves and thrust blocks, steel fencing with a gate, gravel surfacing and drainage; access roads at Coyote Canyon and Window Rock
- Connect new steel piping to the existing lateral (supply) pipe and the distribution (delivery) pipe, and install interior exposed piping, valves and accessories
- Building mechanical (including heating and cooling), electrical, controls, instruments and security, with controls tied into the existing San Juan Lateral SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition: remote monitoring) system, plus fiber optic cable from the lateral to each building
- Flush, test and disinfect the installed piping, supplying and disposing of the water, and complete commissioning (system start-up testing)
- Provide as-built and final drawings, and quantity surveys with each monthly payment request
- Staff the job with a full-time safety representative, a quality control representative and qualified survey personnel
- Price all seven price schedules; bids on only part of the schedules are not considered
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP) sealed bid (invitation for bid, IFB); seven price schedules, one per site, mixing lump-sum and unit-priced line items
- Period of performance
- December 16, 2026 to April 16, 2029 (as stated in the amendments and the SF 1442); the question and answer document also refers to an 831-day performance period
- Place of performance
- Seven sites in northwest New Mexico between Gallup and Shiprock: Sanostee, Newcomb and Naschitti in San Juan County; BBN9, Coyote Canyon, Rock Springs and Window Rock in McKinley County
- Estimated value
- Project magnitude between $18,000,000.00 and $23,000,000.00, as disclosed in the IFB
- How they'll choose
- Lowest price: award goes to the responsible bidder that meets the solicitation terms, shows proof of the bid guarantee and has the lowest-priced bid opened; prices are also checked for balance and fairness
- Offers due
- November 10, 2026, 10:00 AM Mountain (from the version posted Oct 13, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- Sealed bid. Email to Brittney Nielson (brittney_nielson@ios.doi.gov) and Amy Loveless (amy_loveless@ios.doi.gov); or mail or hand deliver to Philoma Singer, Bureau of Reclamation, Four Corners Construction Office, 1235 La Plata Highway, Farmington, NM 87401. Bonds may be sent electronically. Bids are opened at that office, or by Microsoft Teams if not in person.
What they'll judge offers on
- Price: total bid price (TBP) of price schedules 1 through 7, less any New Mexico or Navajo Nation gross receipts tax amounts
What to include when you submit
- Price all seven price schedules; no offer is considered on only part of the schedules
- Fill in the total bid price (TBP) page; TBP leaves out New Mexico Gross Receipts Tax and Navajo Nation tax, but include those taxes as estimates in the price proposal
- Include proof of the bid guarantee; electronic bid bonds are accepted
- Complete the offer blocks of Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442) and list the amendments you received (0001, 0002 and 0003)
- The contracting officer estimates the mobilization and preparatory work line should not exceed 5 percent of the total offered price; the payment clause covers a higher figure
- The as-built drawings and final drawings lines are pre-priced at $10,000 and $5,000 per site; a different amount may be proposed but will be reviewed
- Subcontractors may not send partial bids to the Government; they must propose to prime contractors
- Confirm that your bid is received by the response due date and time, however you send it
After award, you must have
- Performance and payment bonds, due 21 days after award (the 10-day figure elsewhere in the IFB is replaced by the SF 1442 figure) From Questions___Answers_0002.pdf:
The 21-day period specified on the SF 1442 takes priority.
- Full-time safety representative, quality control representative and qualified survey personnel From Sol_140R4026B0002.pdf:
Full time safety representative and quality…
- Survey support directed by a registered professional land surveyor licensed in the state where the work is done (New Mexico) From IFB_140R4026B0002_NGWSP_Turnout_Buildings.pdf:
…under the direction of a registered professional land surveyor licensed in the state where the work is being completed…
Not in the notice text
- Much of the invitation for bid (sections between the table of contents and the representations), most of the 894,226-character specifications, the drawings, and the wage determination files for San Juan County and McKinley County heavy construction were attached but not read; check them on SAM.gov
- SAM.gov states no set-aside and the text read does not state one
- Whether attending the August 26, 2026 pre-bid site tour was required is not stated; the attendee sign-in sheet is attached but not read
- The exact interim completion dates and outage windows are in specification 01 14 12, which was not read
- The liquidated damages rate and the amounts and forms of the bid guarantee and bonds are in sections that were not read
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: Sealed bid. Email to Brittney Nielson (brittney_nielson@ios.doi.gov) and Amy Loveless (amy_loveless@ios.doi.gov); or mail or hand deliver to Philoma Singer, Bureau of Reclamation, Four Corners Construction Office, 1235 La Plata Highway, Farmington, NM 87401. Bonds may be sent electronically. Bids are opened at that office, or by Microsoft Teams if not in person. 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 27, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- Reclamation Contracting Activity, Denver, CO
- Product/service code
- Y1NE · Construction of Water Supply Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237110)
- Versions
5 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 27, 2026 · Amendment 0004 (this version)Due Nov 10, 2026
- Oct 13, 2026 · Amendment 0003Due Nov 10, 2026
- Oct 13, 2026 · Amendment 0002Due Nov 10, 2026
- Aug 31, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 10, 2026
- Aug 13, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 10, 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
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
NGWSP Turnout Buildings