Sources Sought
Mill Springs National Cemetery Gravesite Expansion
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Cemetery Administration, is running a sources sought notice, which is market research and not a solicitation, for a gravesite expansion at Mill Springs National Cemetery in Nancy, Kentucky. Only Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) construction firms are sought, and the response due date is November 5, 2026. The notice puts the construction magnitude between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Department of Veterans Affairs who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Cemetery Administration, is running a sources sought notice, which is market research and not a solicitation, for a gravesite expansion at Mill Springs National Cemetery in Nancy, Kentucky. Only Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) construction firms are sought, and the response due date is November 5, 2026. The notice puts the construction magnitude between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000.
Who can bid
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB): the response must confirm the firm is an eligible SDVOSB concern under NAICS code 237990
- One to three completed or substantially completed projects similar in scope and magnitude
How to submit: Email to daniel.kinney@va.gov, due November 5, 2026 (no time given). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (5)
From the version posted Oct 18, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB firms only. Only Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business firms can respond or compete; other firms are shut out.
- Worth checking: Large project size. The notice puts the construction magnitude at $5,000,000 to $10,000,000, which a small firm must be able to handle in size and experience.
- Worth checking: Similar past projects required. Firms must show projects similar in scope and magnitude to this one, which may rule out firms with smaller track records.
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- Minor: Three-page response limit. The whole response, attachments included, is capped at three pages.
- Minor: Response due date only in the text. SAM.gov shows no response date, but the text sets November 5, 2026 with no time of day.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Responses from SDVOSB construction firms showing they can do the gravesite expansion, as market research
- About 834 double-depth pre-placed crypt burial sites and 657 in-ground cremation burial sites
- Site grading and earthwork, plus new roadways connecting to the existing road network
- Stormwater management, including a new storm drain system and crypt underdrains
- Irrigation system expansion, flower watering stations and other site furnishings
- Sod and tree planting, and new and replacement signage, section markers and gravesite grid monuments
- Contract type
- Not stated; this is a sources sought notice, not a solicitation
- Place of performance
- Mill Springs National Cemetery, Nancy, Kentucky
- Estimated value
- Construction magnitude between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000, as stated in the notice
- How they'll choose
- No offers are scored; responses are used to see whether enough eligible SDVOSB firms exist to compete
- Offers due
- November 5, 2026 (no time given)
- How to submit
- Email to daniel.kinney@va.gov
- Page limits
- Response: 3 pages, including attachments
What to include when you submit
- Subject line: Sources Sought Response – Mill Springs National Cemetery Gravesite Expansion – 861CM3012
- Give company name, address, unique entity ID (UEI), point of contact, telephone number and email address
- Confirm the firm is an eligible SDVOSB concern under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 237990
- Include a positive statement that the firm intends to submit a bid or proposal if a solicitation is issued
- Describe one to three completed or substantially completed projects similar in scope and magnitude
- For each project give title and general scope, contract value, completion date or current status, and customer or agency
- Do not send marketing materials, brochures or lengthy capability packages
Not in the notice text
- Whether a site visit will be held is not stated.
- The wage rule (a Davis-Bacon wage determination, the federal pay rate for construction work) is not stated.
- Bonding requirements are not stated.
- The time of day of the response due date is not given.
- Contract type, period of performance and the expected solicitation date are not stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- If it goes ahead as planned: 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 237990
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
- 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 18, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- National Cemetery Admin (36C786), Quantico, VA
- Product/service code
- Y1PZ · Construction of Other Non-Building Facilities
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237990)
- 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 answer a sources sought notice
- Open SDVOSB set-aside contracts
- SDVOSB and veteran-owned contracts
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice, SDVOSB (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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