Presolicitation
NRM-CONST | 528A4-27-202 Salt Barn Batavia | FY27 NRM
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryPresolicitation 36C24227B0008: the Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contract Office 02) plans to buy a new salt barn at the Batavia VA Medical Center in Batavia, NY. It is set aside 100% for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) and will be firm-fixed-price (FFP): one set price, whatever the work costs. The solicitation is expected on or about November 6, 2026, and the cost range given is $500,000 and $1,000,000. More in the summary
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Presolicitation 36C24227B0008: the Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contract Office 02) plans to buy a new salt barn at the Batavia VA Medical Center in Batavia, NY. It is set aside 100% for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) and will be firm-fixed-price (FFP): one set price, whatever the work costs. The solicitation is expected on or about November 6, 2026, and the cost range given is $500,000 and $1,000,000.
Who can bid
- Must be a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB); the procurement is 100% set aside for these businesses
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 22, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB-only set-aside. Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses can bid; other firms are shut out unless they hold that status.
- Worth checking: One site visit, details in the solicitation. The notice says there is one and only site visit and gives no date; whether it is required is not stated, so check the solicitation.
- Minor: Solicitation not yet posted. This is a presolicitation, so the solicitation and its response due date come later; the notice says it will be posted on or about November 6, 2026.
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- Minor: Scope is described as not limited to the listed items. The work list says it is not limited to the items named, so the full scope is only clear once the solicitation is posted.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- 36C24227B0008.docx (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Build a new salt barn on the north side of the Batavia VA Medical Center campus
- Demolish the existing salt barn
- Demolish asphalt and concrete
- Reconfigure electrical service
- Do earthwork and concrete forming
- Place new asphalt
- Install the manufactured roof
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price
- Place of performance
- Batavia VA Medical Center, 222 Richmond Avenue, Batavia, NY 14020
- Estimated value
- Cost range of $500,000 and $1,000,000, as the notice states it
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation itself, with the response due date, drawings, specifications and evaluation method, has not been posted yet
- Site visit date and whether attendance is required
- Whether a Davis-Bacon wage determination (federal minimum pay rates for construction workers) applies; the notice does not say
- Bonding requirements
- Performance period or completion time
Eligibility and how to respond
- 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
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
- 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 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- 242-Network Contract Office 02 (36C242), Albany, NY
- Product/service code
- Y1DA · Construction 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 read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Open SDVOSB set-aside contracts
- SDVOSB and veteran-owned contracts
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, SDVOSB (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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