Solicitation
Apache Alert Mission Complex
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. W912ER26RA016
Due in 21 days
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Middle East District) wants a contractor to build the Apache Alert Mission Complex at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, for the Kuwait Air Force. It is a full and open, firm-fixed-price construction contract covering alert shelters, support buildings, fuel and fire-water facilities, utilities and airfield pavement, plus five priced options. The work takes place on an active airbase, and the contract length, how bids are scored and how to submit are not in the files that could be read.
Watch out for
- Solicitation instructions and evaluation rules not available. Volume 1 (instructions and contract clauses) is only a cover page here, so how proposals are scored, how to submit, bonding and contract length cannot be confirmed and must be checked on SAM.gov.
Solicitation Instructions
- Construction in Kuwait. Working on a foreign military base adds base access, security, shipping, labor and local-law hurdles that a small U.S. firm must plan and price for.
at Ali Al Salem Airbase, Kuwait
- Building next to live helicopter operations. The complex stays operational during construction and you must work around flight, ground and maintenance operations, which limits work hours and sequencing.
The Contractor will be required to work during operational
- Very large, multi-building scope. The package has 18 listed work items, a 14-volume drawing set and five priced options, which needs strong financial capacity and a deep subcontractor team.
facilities are to be constructed under Package (Pkg) #1:
- Bank-verified financial standing required. Your bank must stamp and sign a questionnaire about balances, loans and credit lines, and missing information can get the proposal dropped.
obtain a bank stamp or seal AND signature of the referenced individual on the
- Short time to respond. The solicitation was posted October 1 and proposals are due October 30, about four weeks, for a project with a large document set and many required forms.
- Some design work falls to the contractor. Fire and life safety drawings are only conceptual and the specs include design-after-award sections, so you may need to price engineering and shop design that a pure design-bid-build job would not include.
ALL FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY DRAWING ARE CONCEPTUAL IN NATURE.
- Unexploded ordnance risk. If unexploded ordnance is suspected during digging, all underground work stops and the base commander and Contracting Officer must be notified, which can delay the schedule.
In the event unexploded ordinance is discovered or suspected during
- Notice says design-bid-build, documents say Request for Proposals. The attachments use past performance, cost breakdown and financial questionnaires, which look like a proposal-style evaluation, so do not assume lowest price wins until Volume 1 is checked.
Request for Proposals
- Dual-language Arabic and English signage and Kuwait standards. Signs and some work must follow Kuwait practice, which adds cost and coordination for a U.S. small business.
2. SIGNS ARE DUAL LANGUAGE WITH PRIMARY TEXT IN ARABIC
Read from the notice and 12 attachments. 16 not read in full.
- CDC SPECIFICATIONS - VOL 2 OF 5 - DIV 01-08 - 5099974 PKG 1 APACHE FACILITIES.pdf
- CDC SPECIFICATIONS - VOL 3 OF 5 - DIV 09-23 - 5099974 PKG 1 APACHE FACILITIES.pdf
- CDC SPECIFICATIONS - VOL 4 OF 5 - DIV 26-34 - 509974 PKG 1 APACHE FACILITIES.pdf
- CID PACKAGE 1 - JULY 2026.pdf
- COVER - VOL 1 OF 5 - CONTRACTING - 509974 PKG 1 APACHE FACILITIES.pdf
- Att A Financial Standing Questionnaire.pdf
- Att B KU-509974-COST BREAKDOWN SHEET_ SEPT 15 2026.pdf
- Att BKU-509974-PROPOSAL SCHEDULE_ SEPT 15 2026.pdf
- Att C Past Performance Overview Sheet.pdf
- Att F Corporate Certificate To Bind.pdf
- Att G Performance Distribution Statement.pdf
- VOL 2 OF 14_FACILITY A_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf
- CDC SPECIFICATIONS -VOL 5 of 5 - APPENDICES - APACHE PKG 1 509974.pdf: too large
- VOL 1 OF 14_GENERAL SITE_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: too large
- VOL 3 OF 14_FACILITY C_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 4 OF 14_FACILITY D_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 5 OF 14_FACILITY E_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 6 OF 14_FACILITY F_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 7 OF 14_FACILITY G1_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 8 OF 14_FACILITY H_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 9 OF 14_FACILITY J_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 10 OF 14_FACILITY K_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 11 OF 14_FACILITY M_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 12 OF 14_FACILITY N_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 13 OF 14_FACILITY O_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- VOL 14 OF 14_FACILITY STD_DRAWINGS_CDC_JUL 2026.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- Att D Project Summary Form.pdf: over the file limit for one brief
- Att E USACE PPQ Form (2011 Sep).pdf: over the file limit for one brief
Full brief
What they want
- Build four alert shelters with aprons (hardstands for the helicopters)
- Build a Logistics Readiness Center, Maintenance Supply Warehouse with exterior storage shade, Guard House, Pilot Readiness Facility and a Petroleum Oil Lubricant (POL) shed
- Build a fire water pump house with water tank, three electrical substations, parking sunshades and bunkers
- Build the north half of a Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP)
- Install all site utilities: stormwater, domestic water, fire water, sanitary sewer with lift station and leach field, site electrical and communications
- Site development including a taxiway, vehicular pavement and parking lot
- Priced options: Alert Magazine, helipad and taxiway rehab on the west side of Diamond, demolition of Hardened Aircraft Shelters, FARP expansion (south half), and a paved access road to the practice runway
- Furniture, fixtures and equipment for several of the buildings, plus mobilization, site survey, commissioning and closeout submittals
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price, full and open competition, design-bid-build construction (per the notice). The attached documents are titled Request for Proposals.
- Place of performance
- Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait (a Kuwait Air Force installation, about 66 km west of Kuwait City)
- Offers due
- 2026-10-30T12:00:00-04:00
What to include when you submit
- Complete the Proposal Schedule (lump-sum items 0001 to 0022, base items 0001-0017 and options 0018-0022)
- Complete the Cost Breakdown sheet (Exhibit 1) showing direct labor, equipment, materials, subcontractor cost, job-site overhead, home-office overhead, bond and profit for each item
- Att A: Financial Standing Questionnaire, filled in by your bank with bank stamp or seal and signature
- Att C: Past Performance Overview Sheet (up to 10 projects), each with a Project Summary Form (Att D, not provided)
- Att E: USACE Past Performance Questionnaire form (not provided)
- Att F: Corporate Certificate or Authority to Bind Partnership
- Att G: Performance Distribution Statement showing your self-performed share and major subcontractors (20% or more of contract value)
- Proposal format, delivery method and file instructions are in Volume 1 (Solicitation Instructions), which was not provided
You must have
- Open to all businesses: no set-aside, full and open competition
Full and Open Firm Fixed-Price Contract for design-bid-build construction services
- Financial standing proof: a bank must complete and sign the questionnaire, with a bank stamp or seal
obtain a bank stamp or seal AND signature of the referenced individual on the
- Relevant past performance: list your best comparable projects and submit a project summary for each
List work which best illustrates current qualifications relevant to this award.
- Corporate certificate or partnership authority proving the signer can bind the company
If a corporation submits the proposal, the Corporate Certificate at paragraph A below
- Disclose self-performed work and every major subcontractor (20% or more of contract dollars)
defined as those performing 20% or more of the total dollar value ($) of the
- Comply with Kuwait regulations and codes in addition to U.S. standards
CONTRACTOR AWARDED THIS PROJECT IS REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH KUWAIT REGULATIONS AND ALL OTHER APPLICABLE CODES AND STANDARDS.
Not in the notice text
- Contract length (period of performance) and required completion dates
- Estimated contract value or price range
- How proposals are evaluated (price versus experience), the factors and their weights
- How and where to submit the proposal, file format and any page limits
- Bid, performance and payment bond requirements (the cost breakdown sheet has a bond column, but the rules are in Volume 1)
- Site visit, question deadline and base access or security requirements
- The four construction phases described in Appendix A (Volume 5, not provided)
- Most drawings (general site and Facilities C through O) and the Project Summary Form (Att D) and USACE PPQ form (Att E)
- Most of the technical specification text (only the start and end of Volumes 2 to 4 were provided)
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 30, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 1, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- W912ER26RA016
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army
- Office
- W076 Endist Middle Eas(Provis)
- NAICS
- 236220
- Product/service code
- Y1BZ
- Business type
- Construction & renovation
- Contracting contact
- Tracy Gusukumatracy.m.gusukuma@usace.army.mil5406653779
- Versions
- 5 (amended since first posted)
Full notice text from SAM.gov
This solicitation pertains to a Full and Open Firm Fixed-Price Contract for design-bid-build construction services in support of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Southwestern Middle East District (SWM) Apache Alert Mission Complex for the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) at Ali Al Salem Airbase, Kuwait.
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