Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Hickman Wildlife Water Catchment and Pipe Fence
Department of the Interior · Bureau of Land Management
AI summaryThe Bureau of Land Management's New Mexico State Office (Department of the Interior), for its Socorro Field Office, wants a small business to build a wildlife water catchment and a steel pipe fence in Socorro County. The response due date is November 9, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern, and work is listed for November 17, 2026 to January 25, 2027. It is a firm-fixed-price contract (one set price, whatever the work ends up costing), and the Government supplies two 16'x8'x24' BOSS storage tanks and the gutters. More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 27, 2026. It moves the due date from Oct 22, 2026 to Nov 9, 2026, which is the date shown on this page. See the latest version.
AI summary Beta
Summary of the version posted Oct 20, 2026. The notice was amended Oct 27, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 8 of 20 attachments weren't read (A04_-_Revised_SOW_Hickman_Water_Catchment_and_Fence_10_19_2026_0007.pdf, A04_-_SOW_Hickman_Water_Catchment_and_Fence.pdf and 6 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Bureau of Land Management's New Mexico State Office (Department of the Interior), for its Socorro Field Office, wants a small business to build a wildlife water catchment and a steel pipe fence in Socorro County. The response due date is November 9, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern, and work is listed for November 17, 2026 to January 25, 2027. It is a firm-fixed-price contract (one set price, whatever the work ends up costing), and the Government supplies two 16'x8'x24' BOSS storage tanks and the gutters.
Who can bid
- Small business under the Total Small Business Set-Aside, NAICS 238910 (size standard $19.0 million). The set-aside was Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise (ISBEE) until Amendment 05 changed it.
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) when the quote is submitted
How to submit: Email to Deronda_Chevannes@ios.doi.gov, with the solicitation number 140L1726Q0054 in the quote. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (12)
- Serious: Small businesses only. Only small businesses can bid; the size limit for this work code is $19.0 million.
- Serious: Payment bond or letter of credit within 10 days of award. You must post payment protection for the full contract price after award, so line up a surety or bank before you bid.
- Worth checking: All-or-none award. Award goes to one firm for the whole job, so you must price every part of the work.
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- Worth checking: Pricing needs two bid-schedule lines plus a five-element breakdown. The solicitation lists more pricing elements than the bid schedule has lines, and the Q&A says to do both.
- Worth checking: Fence crossing and tank support costs go in the base price. The arroyo crossing length is left to bidders, and extras such as a tank support frame or access ramp must be priced into the total.
- Worth checking: Contractor hauls Government-furnished materials. BLM loads the tanks and gutters, but the contractor must truck them to the site, then unload, set and backfill them.
- Worth checking: Experience request names the wrong kind of work. Section L asks for vault toilet projects; the Government calls that an error and wants projects related to the statement of work.
- Worth checking: Past terminations for default must be explained. Leaving a past default termination unexplained may get your quote disqualified.
- Worth checking: Revised statement of work is binding in full. Amendment 07 revised the statement of work and says all of it counts, highlighted or not, so read the whole revised file.
- Minor: Response due date moved to November 9, 2026. Amendment 07 extended the date from October 22, 2026, 1:00 PM ET, so confirm you are using the latest amendment.
- Minor: Site visit on October 29, 2026, 8:00 AM MT. Moved due to weather; first added as an optional visit at the Socorro Field Office, in a remote area reached by vehicle.
- Minor: Federal construction wage rates apply. Davis-Bacon rules (minimum pay for construction workers) apply, using the Socorro County wage determination, so price labor at those rates.
Read from the notice and 12 attachments. 8 of 20 not read. Show which files.
- Sol_140L1726Q0054_Amd_0008.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L1726Q0054_Amd_0007.pdf (read)
- B011_-_140L1726Q0054_Question_and_Answers_10_19_2026_0007.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L1726Q0054_Amd_0006.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L1726Q0054_Amd_0005.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L1726Q0054_Amd_0004.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L1726Q0054_Amd_0003.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L1726Q0054_Amd_0002.pdf (read)
- B011_-_140L1726Q0054_Question_and_Answers_9_3_2026_0002.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L1726Q0054_Amd_0001.pdf (read)
- Sol_140L1726Q0054.pdf (read)
- B09_-_Amendment_03_Attachment_-_Extend_Solicitation_and_add_Add_Site_Visit_0003.pdf (read)
- A04_-_Revised_SOW_Hickman_Water_Catchment_and_Fence_10_19_2026_0007.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- A04_-_SOW_Hickman_Water_Catchment_and_Fence.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- A04_-_Bid_Schedule_Hickman_Wildlife_Water_Catchment_and_Pipe_Fence.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- A06_-_MAPS_Hickman_Wildlife_Water_and_Catchment_Project.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- A06_-Similar_Project__BLM_Catchment_Photos_NOT_THE_CURRENT_PROJECT_0007.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- A06_-_Water_Catchment_Drawings.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- A06_-_SFO_PIPE_FENCE_ARROYO_CROSSING_DRAWINGS.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- B03_-_Wage_Determinations_WD__NM20260029.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Build a wildlife water catchment (not a reservoir) that includes setting and backfilling two Government-furnished 16'x8'x24' BOSS storage tanks. The Government also furnishes the gutters.
- Install a pipe fence, including arroyo (dry creek bed) crossings. The Government says the length of crossings is for the contractor to determine and to include in the base price.
- Tear down and remove the existing catchment and fence, listed as its own pricing element in the instructions.
- Pick up Government-furnished materials at the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Yard in Socorro, where BLM loads them, then haul, unload and install them.
- Include a 10-foot minimum vehicle drive-through gate; gussets are 6 inches long by 1/4 inch thick.
- Handle site prep, material delivery and reclamation, and send a detailed work schedule showing the critical path and material lead times.
- Excess material longer than ten feet can be hauled out by vehicle, not flown out, per the Government's answer to a bidder question.
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price; request for quote (RFQ); award is all or none
- Period of performance
- November 17, 2026 to January 25, 2027 (Amendments 07 and 08). Earlier amendments listed other dates, such as November 13, 2026 to January 19, 2027.
- Place of performance
- Socorro County, New Mexico (SAM.gov lists NM); the Q&A gives coordinates 33.75244, -107.14047
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Best value on price and other factors. Technical and past performance combined are significantly less important than price.
- Offers due
- November 9, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern (from the version posted Oct 20, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- Email to Deronda_Chevannes@ios.doi.gov, with the solicitation number 140L1726Q0054 in the quote
- Page limits
- Approach to accomplishing the work: no more than 5 pages
What they'll judge offers on
- Price: offered price including all transportation to the destination, judged fair and reasonable
- Technical: (a) approach to accomplishing the work, (b) experience on non-government projects, (c) proposed work schedule (critical path)
- Past performance: SAM.gov and Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) records; no history is rated neutral
What to include when you submit
- Send two separate volumes: Volume 1 Pricing and Volume 2 Non-pricing (the evaluation factors).
- Complete and sign Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442), the construction solicitation and offer form, and respond to Sections L and M (the instructions and evaluation parts of the solicitation).
- Volume 1: complete the bid schedule with two line items (Pipe Fence Installation and Catchment Installation) plus a price breakdown of five price elements.
- Volume 1 pricing is FOB Destination (priced delivered to the site), excludes taxes, and covers catchment, fence, teardown and removal, mobilization and demobilization, other costs, and the total.
- Volume 2 experience: list at least three and no more than ten projects, completed or ongoing in the past three years, as a prime or subcontractor. Send projects related to this statement of work.
- For each project give the name, start and end dates, a brief description and location, the owner, the owner's contact information and the total dollar value.
- Volume 2 schedule: a detailed work breakdown schedule showing the critical path, lead times for material ordering and delivery, site prep and reclamation.
- Explain any past termination for default: cause, corrective action and efforts to prevent a repeat. Not doing so may disqualify you.
- Acknowledge each amendment before the response due date, and keep your quote valid for 60 calendar days from that date.
After award, you must have
- Payment bond or irrevocable letter of credit (a bank guarantee of payment) for 100 percent of the contract price, due within 10 days of award From Sol_140L1726Q0054.pdf:
The submission of the payment protection is required within 10 days of contract award.
- Liability insurance with the Contractor and the United States as named insureds; the clause lists amounts of $100,000, to be set by the contracting officer From Sol_140L1726Q0054.pdf:
$100,000 each person*…
Not in the notice text
- The revised statement of work (dated October 19, 2026), the original statement of work, the bid schedule, the maps and drawings, and wage determination NM20260029 are attached but not read. The main solicitation was only partly read.
- Fence length, catchment layout and size, and the exact bid schedule lines are in those unread files.
- The Davis-Bacon wage rates are in wage determination NM20260029, which was not read.
- The Government's estimate or price range is not stated in the text read.
- The daily liquidated damages amount (a late-completion charge) is not stated in the text read.
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 238910
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to Deronda_Chevannes@ios.doi.gov, with the solicitation number 140L1726Q0054 in the quote. 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
- Sep 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe, NM
- Product/service code
- Y1FB · Construction of Recreational Buildings
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 238910)
- Versions
10 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 27, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 9, 2026
- Oct 20, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 9, 2026
- Oct 20, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 9, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 23, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 22, 2026
- Sep 22, 2026 · Amendment 0008 (this version)Due Oct 22, 2026
- Sep 9, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 22, 2026
- Sep 9, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 22, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 3, 2026 · AmendmentDue Sep 9, 2026
- Aug 31, 2026 · AmendmentDue Sep 9, 2026
- Aug 28, 2026 · Combined Synopsis/SolicitationDue Sep 9, 2026
- 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
Hickman Wildlife Water Catchment and Pipe Fence Socorro Field Office (SFO) New Mexico Amendment 08 - 10/19/2026 - Due to Weather Site Visit has been changed to Thursday October 29, 2026 at 8:00 AM MT, at the Socorro Field Office, 901 Old US Hwy 85, Socorro, NM 87801. Amendment 07 - 10/19/2026 - The SOW has been updated as of October 19, 2026; Responses to outstanding vendor questions. The deadline for submitting questions is hereby extended to November 4, 2026 at 3:00PM ET. The solicitation closing date is extended to November 9, 2026 at 1500PM ET.
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