Solicitation
Lower Brule North Shoreline Stabilization and Ecosystem Restoration, Element 2
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe Army's Omaha Engineer District (W071 ENDIST OMAHA) plans a 100% small business construction contract for Element 2 of the Lower Brule North shoreline stabilization and ecosystem restoration in Lower Brule, South Dakota. This is a presolicitation: the invitation for bid (IFB: a sealed-bid solicitation) is expected on or about October 23, 2026 (passed) and is to close on or about December 3, 2026. The Government's estimate is $10,000,000 to $25,000,000. More in the summary
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The Army's Omaha Engineer District (W071 ENDIST OMAHA) plans a 100% small business construction contract for Element 2 of the Lower Brule North shoreline stabilization and ecosystem restoration in Lower Brule, South Dakota. This is a presolicitation: the invitation for bid (IFB: a sealed-bid solicitation) is expected on or about October 23, 2026 (passed) and is to close on or about December 3, 2026. The Government's estimate is $10,000,000 to $25,000,000.
Who can bid
- Small business: the job is set aside 100% for small businesses (size standard $45M)
- Active and verified registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) to receive an award, with the NAICS code in your profile before you submit an offer
- Performance and payment bonds (surety guarantees that the work will be finished and bills paid)
How to submit: Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module; bids will no longer be accepted by email. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (6)
- Serious: Small business only. Only businesses that qualify as small (size standard $45M) can bid.
- Serious: Performance and payment bonds required. You need a surety to provide bonds on a job estimated at $10 million to $25 million.
- Worth checking: Large job: $10 million to $25 million. The estimated construction cost is large for a small business and includes in-water island building.
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- Worth checking: Site visit on November 3, 2026. A site visit is scheduled; the notice does not say attendance is required, and details will be in Section 00 21 00 of the solicitation.
- Worth checking: Bids go in through PIEE, one hour early. Bids must be in the PIEE Solicitation Module no later than 1 hour before the due time on the form, and email is no longer accepted.
- Minor: Liquidated damages for late completion. The contract will charge damages if the work is not finished in the time allowed.
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Full summary
What they want
- Build a 100-foot-wide riparian planting bench (planted streambank strip) and a gravel maintenance path along the whole reach
- Create a 200-by-1,500-foot island in Reach 4 of the lake, in water up to three feet deep
- Plant the island with cottonwood trees and other culturally significant vegetation
- Install a riprap revetment (rock armor) on the lakeward side of the island against wind, waves and ice
- Result: about 5.17 acres of emergent wetland and roughly 32 acres of riparian habitat
- Start work on contract award and finish 550 days after receipt of the Notice to Proceed (subject to change after the IFB is issued)
- Contract type
- Construction under an invitation for bid (IFB: sealed bidding); Part 15 of the FAR does not apply
- Period of performance
- 550 days after receipt of Notice to Proceed; subject to change after IFB issuance
- Place of performance
- Big Bend, Lower Brule, South Dakota 57548
- Estimated value
- Estimated construction cost between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000 (the Government's estimate)
- How they'll choose
- Sealed bidding through an invitation for bid (IFB); details will be in the IFB
- Offers due
- On or about December 3, 2026 (expected IFB closing; time not given) (from the version posted Oct 16, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module; bids will no longer be accepted by email
What to include when you submit
- Submit the bid in the PIEE Solicitation Module no later than 1 hour before the date and time in Block 13 of Standard Form (SF) 1442 (or Block 14 of the latest SF 30)
- Register for a PIEE Solicitation Module account early, because access may take time
- Make sure the bid is virus-free and allow time for the upload; teammates' and subcontractors' own submissions must also arrive by the bid due date and time
- Include the NAICS code in your SAM profile before you submit an offer
- Send questions on ProjNet only; access comes when the IFB is issued
Not in the notice text
- The IFB, drawings and specifications are not yet issued; they will be posted in the PIEE Solicitation Module, with a link on SAM.gov.
- Whether the site visit is required is not stated.
- The wage rule that applies (such as a Davis-Bacon wage determination) is not stated.
- The bid due date and time in Block 13 of SF 1442 come with the IFB.
- The bond amounts are not stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 237990
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module; bids will no longer be accepted by email. 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
- Solicitation
- Office
- W071 ENDIST Omaha, NE
- Product/service code
- Y1PZ · Construction of Other Non-Building Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237990)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 26, 2026 · Solicitation (this version)Due Dec 3, 2026
- Oct 16, 2026 · Amendment 0001No date on SAM.gov
- Sep 22, 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
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The project is located along the left descending bank of Lake Sharpe near the Lower Brule, SD town site. Lower Brule North Element 2 includes a 100-foot-wide riparian planting bench, a gravel maintenance path along the entire reach, a riprap revetment to protect the shoreline and island from erosion, and the creation of a 200-by-1,500-foot island constructed in water up to three feet deep. The sheltered open water area between the island and the shoreline will develop into approximately 5.17 acres of emergent wetland, and this will also create approximately 32 acres of riparian habitat. Related tasks include earth moving, grading, bank shaping, rock installation, water management, fill, and topsoil placement.
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