Sources Sought
657-24-102JC - Prepare Site for New PET/CT, Room A011D
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryThe VA's Network Contracting Office 15 is doing market research (a sources sought notice, not a request for offers) for a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) contractor to prepare Room A011D for a new PET/CT scanner at the John Cochran VA Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri (project 657-24-102JC). The base work runs 365 calendar days, with an estimated cost of $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. Capability statements are due November 10, 2026, 2:00 PM Central; the solicitation is to be issued on or before December 2, 2026. More in the summary
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The VA's Network Contracting Office 15 is doing market research (a sources sought notice, not a request for offers) for a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) contractor to prepare Room A011D for a new PET/CT scanner at the John Cochran VA Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri (project 657-24-102JC). The base work runs 365 calendar days, with an estimated cost of $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. Capability statements are due November 10, 2026, 2:00 PM Central; the solicitation is to be issued on or before December 2, 2026.
Who can bid
- Service-disabled veteran-owned small business under NAICS 236220, registered in SAM.gov
- Listed in the Small Business Administration (SBA) veteran certification registry by the response date
- Bonding capability shown by a surety letter
How to submit: Email to Matthew.Finley@va.gov and Abby.Monroe2@va.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (5)
From the version posted Nov 2, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB firms only. The VA is surveying only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses certified by SBA.
- Worth checking: Limit on subcontracting. The prime may pay no more than 85 percent of the contract amount, excluding materials, to subcontractors that are not similarly situated.
- Worth checking: Bonding letter needed. A response must include a surety letter, so a firm needs bonding capacity for a $1 to $2 million project.
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- Minor: Hospital work rules. Work in an operating hospital comes with infection-control containment and life-safety rules that add cost.
- Minor: Two solicitation numbers. SAM.gov lists 36C25527Q0050 while the text names solicitation 36C25527R0016; use both when you reference it.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Prepare existing space for a new PET/CT scanner in Room A011D
- General construction, alterations, mechanical, electrical and plumbing work
- Utility systems, fire protection systems and abatement work
- Demolition and removal of existing structures
- Follow infection control risk assessment (ICRA) containment and interim life safety measures (ILSM)
- Coordinate with the equipment vendor per the drawings and specifications
- Period of performance
- 365 calendar days for the base bid
- Place of performance
- John Cochran VAMC, 915 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63106
- Estimated value
- Between $1,000,000.00 and $2,000,000.00 (estimated cost magnitude)
- Offers due
- Nov 10, 2026, 2:00 PM Central
- How to submit
- Email to Matthew.Finley@va.gov and Abby.Monroe2@va.gov
- Page limits
- Capability statement: 10 pages
What to include when you submit
- Give your name, address, point of contact, phone, email and Unique Entity ID
- State your interest in bidding when the solicitation is issued
- Give at least 1, but no more than 3, completed construction examples from the past 5 years, with description, customer, timeliness, satisfaction and dollar value
- Provide your CVE certification as a veteran-owned business
- Give your socio-economic status under NAICS 236220 and the percentage of labor you can self-perform
- Give joint venture information if applicable, existing and potential
- Include a surety letter giving your bonding level per contract and aggregate
- Put "SOURCES SOUGHT: 657-24-102JC - Prepare Site for New PET/CT, Room A011D" in the email subject line and on the cover sheet
Not in the notice text
- Drawings and specifications will be issued with the solicitation
- Whether there will be a site visit, and whether it is required, is not stated
- Which wage rule applies (for example a Davis-Bacon wage determination) is not stated
- Contract type and evaluation method are not stated
Eligibility and how to respond
- If it goes ahead as planned: 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 236220
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
- 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
- Nov 2, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- 255-Network Contract Office 15 (36C255), Leavenworth, KS
- Product/service code
- Z2DA · Repair or Alteration of Hospitals and Infirmaries
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- 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 answer a sources sought notice
- Open SDVOSB set-aside contracts
- SDVOSB and veteran-owned contracts
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice, SDVOSB (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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