Presolicitation
590-27-120 Replace Pneumatic Tube System
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryOnly Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) can bid. The VA's Network Contracting Office 6 plans a design-build job to replace the pneumatic tube system in Building 110 at the Hampton VA Health Care System in Hampton, VA (project 590-27-120, 36C24627R0010). This is a presolicitation: the solicitation is expected on or about November 16th, 2026, and SAM.gov lists December 16, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern. More in the summary
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Only Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) can bid. The VA's Network Contracting Office 6 plans a design-build job to replace the pneumatic tube system in Building 110 at the Hampton VA Health Care System in Hampton, VA (project 590-27-120, 36C24627R0010). This is a presolicitation: the solicitation is expected on or about November 16th, 2026, and SAM.gov lists December 16, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern.
Who can bid
- Must be a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), registered and verified with the SBA (https://veterans.certify.sba.gov/)
- Small under NAICS 236220 (size standard $45M)
- Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM)
How to submit: The solicitation will be posted only on https://sam.gov/. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 30, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside. Only SBA-verified service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses can win this award.
- Worth checking: Only one site visit. The site visit date will be in the solicitation and no other visits will be held, so plan to attend with your subcontractors.
- Worth checking: Design-build in a working hospital. The bidder carries both design and installation, including in the Emergency Department and Laboratory, which needs design staff or a design partner.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Design and engineering for a new pneumatic tube system
- Investigate and verify existing conditions
- Remove and dispose of the existing pneumatic tube system and its equipment
- Buy and install a new system in Building 110: Blood Draw area, Mechanical Room, Interstitial Room, Emergency Department and Laboratory
- Activate the new system, providing all tools, labor, materials, equipment, supervision and professional services
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (one set price, whatever the work ends up costing), design-build
- Place of performance
- Building 110, Hampton VA Health Care System, Hampton, VA
- Estimated value
- Between $500,000 and $1,000,000 (magnitude of construction)
- Offers due
- Dec 16, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- The solicitation will be posted only on https://sam.gov/
What to include when you submit
- Watch SAM.gov for the solicitation and acknowledge all amendments
- No email, fax or telephone questions will be answered about this announcement
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation hasn't been issued; scope details, dates and instructions come with it
- Whether the site visit is required
- Which Davis-Bacon wage determination applies
- Bonding requirements
- How offers will be evaluated
- The period of performance
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 to submit, from the AI summary: The solicitation will be posted only on https://sam.gov/. 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
- Oct 30, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- 246-Network Contracting Office 6 (36C246), Hampton, VA
- 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