Presolicitation
146 DFAC Janitorial Service
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryPresolicitation: the California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing (146th AW) plans to buy dining facility (DFAC) cleaning at Port Hueneme, California, as one firm-fixed-price contract (one set price, whatever the work ends up costing). It expects a 100% small business set-aside and a start around January 9, 2027. Firms that want the request for quotation (RFQ) must email interest by 6:00 PM PDT on November 6, 2026. More in the summary
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Presolicitation: the California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing (146th AW) plans to buy dining facility (DFAC) cleaning at Port Hueneme, California, as one firm-fixed-price contract (one set price, whatever the work ends up costing). It expects a 100% small business set-aside and a start around January 9, 2027. Firms that want the request for quotation (RFQ) must email interest by 6:00 PM PDT on November 6, 2026.
Who can bid
- Expected 100% small business set-aside, after approvals are completed
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) before award
How to submit: Email to ricardo.macias.3@us.af.mil and william.tucker.32@us.af.mil. 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 23, 2026.
- Worth checking: Funds are not available yet. The Government has no commitment to issue an RFQ or award a contract, and payment depends on funds becoming available.
- Worth checking: Interest email needed to get the RFQ. Only firms that email their interest by the deadline are promised the RFQ when it is distributed.
- Minor: Set-aside not yet final. SAM.gov shows no set-aside. The text says a small business set-aside is expected, not confirmed.
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- Minor: Work only on drill weekends. Cleaning is needed 22 days a year on set weekends, so the work comes in short bursts rather than steady hours.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Clean the dining facility (DFAC) at Building 1401 of the 146th AW during the wing's monthly drill weekends
- Provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and quality control
- Work 22 operational days per year between 0800 and 1500 on the scheduled drill dates
- Keep an adequate workforce so all tasks in the performance work statement (PWS) are done without interruption
- Contract type
- One firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract, expected
- Period of performance
- One 12-month base period and four 12-month option periods, about 5 years in all; expected contract start date of approximately 09 January 2027
- Place of performance
- Port Hueneme, CA, USA; the DFAC in Building 1401 of the 146th AW
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- 6:00 PM PDT, November 6, 2026 (email your interest to receive the RFQ)
- How to submit
- Email to ricardo.macias.3@us.af.mil and william.tucker.32@us.af.mil
What to include when you submit
- Email your interest and your firm's contact information with your SAM Unique Entity ID (UEI) to both contacts
- This is not a quote; quotes come after the RFQ is issued and will be due no less than 10 days after the RFQ is issued
Not in the notice text
- How the award will be decided is not in the notice text; the RFQ will give it
- The RFQ's due date and time are not set; quotes will be due no less than 10 days after it is issued
- Contract value is not stated; the $22,000,000 figure is the small business size standard for the NAICS code, not the contract's value
- The PWS itself and the drill dates after 2027 are not in the notice text
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: Email to ricardo.macias.3@us.af.mil and william.tucker.32@us.af.mil. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 23, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- W7MX Uspfo Activity Caang 146, Port Hueneme, CA
- Product/service code
- S201 · Housekeeping – Custodial Janitorial
- Business type
- Facilities, janitorial & grounds (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 561720)
- 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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