Presolicitation
FY27 EHRM | 657-21-702JC EHRM Training And Administrative Space Construction - St Louis John Cochran
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryOnly Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) can bid. The Department of Veterans Affairs is buying construction for the EHRM Training and Administrative Space project on the first floor of Building 2 at the St. Louis VA John Cochran campus (solicitation 36C77627B0001). The work covers Phases 2, 3 and 4, runs about 150 calendar days, and the response due date is December 2, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern. More in the summary
Advance notice of a coming solicitation, not a bid yet. If it asks for capability statements, sending one is free and puts you on Department of Veterans Affairs's list before the solicitation is posted. See the contact
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 28, 2026. It moves the due date from Oct 7, 2026 to Dec 2, 2026, which is the date shown on this page. See the latest version.
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Only Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) can bid. The Department of Veterans Affairs is buying construction for the EHRM Training and Administrative Space project on the first floor of Building 2 at the St. Louis VA John Cochran campus (solicitation 36C77627B0001). The work covers Phases 2, 3 and 4, runs about 150 calendar days, and the response due date is December 2, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern.
Who can bid
- Must be a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB); offers from others will not be considered
- Small under NAICS 236220 (size standard $45.0 million)
Things to watch (5)
From the version posted Oct 28, 2026.
- Serious: SAM.gov and the solicitation disagree on the set-aside. SAM.gov lists no set-aside, but the solicitation the AI read says a set-aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB). Ask the contracting officer which applies before you bid.
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside. Only businesses certified as service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses can bid; others will be rejected.
- Worth checking: Notice text is the presolicitation wording. The text still says the solicitation "will be issued" and is not a request for offers, though SAM.gov lists this version as the solicitation; the bid documents are separate.
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- Worth checking: Revised drawings change outlet locations. All power and data drops shown on the floor must now be wall-mounted, so price from revised sheets EP101 and TN101.
- Minor: Work inside an operating VA hospital campus. Construction in a health care building usually brings access, phasing and infection-control limits that affect schedule and cost.
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Full summary
What they want
- Phase 2: North Training Rooms 139-142 (about 2,000 square feet): upgraded power and data, new flooring and wall finishes
- Phase 3: South Training Rooms 126-128 (about 1,800 square feet): upgraded power and data, new flooring and wall finishes
- Phase 3: renovate a 130-square-foot breakroom with finishes, casework, a new sink and a cold-water tie-in for an ice machine
- Phase 4: renovate an approximately 1,400-square-foot corridor with new floor and wall finishes
- Phase 4: upgrade two offices (about 150 square feet each) with power, data and finishes
- Phase 4: upgrade a data closet: finishes, an additional server rack with equipment, and a replacement mini-split HVAC unit
- Mount all power and data drops on walls, per revised drawings EP101 and TN101; no floor-mounted outlets
- Contract type
- Single firm-fixed-price contract (one set price, whatever the work ends up costing), design-bid-build
- Period of performance
- Approximately 150 calendar days from the notice to proceed
- Place of performance
- St. Louis VA Health Care System, John Cochran campus, 915 North Grand BLVD, St. Louis, MO 63106 (Building 2, first floor)
- Estimated value
- Between $250,000 and $500,000 (magnitude of construction)
- How they'll choose
- Invitation for Bids (IFB) under FAR Part 14: sealed bids, evaluated by the procedures in the solicitation
- Offers due
- December 2, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern
What to include when you submit
- Send all questions in writing by email to Amanda.Webster@va.gov; telephone calls will not be accepted
Current contractor
Phase 1 was completed under a separate contract; that contractor is not named.
Not in the notice text
- The bid documents (bid form, drawings, specifications and bid instructions) are not in the notice text; they are in the solicitation documents
- How and where to submit bids
- Whether there is a site visit and whether it is required
- Which Davis-Bacon wage determination applies
- Bid, performance and payment bond requirements
- The question deadline
Eligibility and how to respond
- SAM.gov lists no set-aside, but the notice text limits who can bid:
- The notice text says this is set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs), but SAM.gov lists no set-aside. Ask the contracting officer which one applies before you bid.
- 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
- Sep 29, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- Pcac (36C776), Independence, OH
- Product/service code
- Z2DA · Repair or Alteration of Hospitals and Infirmaries
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 28, 2026 · SolicitationDue Dec 2, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 29, 2026 · Presolicitation (this version)Date Oct 7, 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
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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