Presolicitation
Landscaping Service
Department of State
AI summaryThis is a presolicitation: the solicitation is not ready, and SAM.gov's response date of November 4, 2026, 12:00 PM Eastern is when it is expected. U.S. Embassy Nassau (Department of State) plans a 12-month firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) purchase order for landscaping in Nassau, The Bahamas. Only local companies legally licensed to operate a business in Nassau are encouraged to respond. More in the summary
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This is a presolicitation: the solicitation is not ready, and SAM.gov's response date of November 4, 2026, 12:00 PM Eastern is when it is expected. U.S. Embassy Nassau (Department of State) plans a 12-month firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work costs) purchase order for landscaping in Nassau, The Bahamas. Only local companies legally licensed to operate a business in Nassau are encouraged to respond.
Who can bid
- A local company legally licensed as a company to operate a business in Nassau, The Bahamas.
- Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at the time of sending an offer.
How to submit: By email (the email address is not given in this notice). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (5)
From the version posted Oct 22, 2026.
- Serious: Local Bahamas business license required. The notice invites local sources legally licensed to operate a business in Nassau; a U.S. small business without that license may not be able to compete.
- Worth checking: SAM registration required when you send an offer. The contracting officer requires offerors to be registered in SAM at the time of submitting a proposal, which is stricter than the usual rule of registering by award. Check a SAM.gov registration.
- Worth checking: Joint ventures and subcontracting get less favorable consideration. The Embassy favors a company that does not rely on a joint venture or on subcontracting with another organization, so teaming may count against you.
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- Minor: Pre-quotation conference planned. A pre-quotation conference is planned, but its date will be in the solicitation, not in this notice.
- Minor: Award possible without discussion. The Government may award based on the first offer, so your first offer should be your best.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Landscaping services at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, The Bahamas (the scope of work is not in this notice)
- A 12-month period of performance
- A firm-fixed-price purchase order
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price purchase order
- Period of performance
- 12 months
- Place of performance
- U.S. Embassy Nassau, The Bahamas, 235 Shirley Street, PO Box N-8197, Nassau, The Bahamas
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- Nov 4, 2026, 12:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- By email (the email address is not given in this notice)
What to include when you submit
- Be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM, the federal contractor registry) when you send your offer.
- Keep each email with your offer under 30MB; if it is larger, send more than one email.
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation is not issued yet, so the scope of work, price schedule, evaluation criteria and offer instructions are not in this notice.
- The email address for sending offers is not given.
- Whether the pre-quotation conference is required, and its date, are in the solicitation.
- What the solicitation requires about the currency of offers, host-country taxes such as VAT, and Bahamian labor rules is not stated.
- The set-aside is not stated on SAM.gov.
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: By email (the email address is not given in this notice). 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 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- U.S. Embassy Nassau
- Product/service code
- S208 · Housekeeping – Landscaping/Groundskeeping
- Business type
- Facilities, janitorial & grounds (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 561730)
- 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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