Solicitation
D.C. Metro Area Multiple Award Indefinite Quantity Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) Contract for Construction Services
General Services Administration · Public Buildings Service
AI summaryGSA's Public Buildings Service plans about 18 awards of a five-year construction contract for the Washington, D.C. area. It is an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract: no fixed amount, with work ordered later as separate task orders, generally $350,000 to $10,000,000 each. Twelve awards are targeted as reserves, three each for 8(a) (SBA's program for disadvantaged firms), HUBZone, women-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned firms. Offers need a bonding letter for $10 million per project, and the response due date is November 4, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern Time. More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 14, 2026. It moves the due date from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, which is the date shown on this page. See the latest version.
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Summary of another version of this notice: check what changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 7 of 19 attachments weren't read (Excel Price Offer Sheet.xlsx, ATTACHMENT C- SOCIOECONOMICS DESIGNATIONS PDF VERSION.pdf and 5 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
GSA's Public Buildings Service plans about 18 awards of a five-year construction contract for the Washington, D.C. area. It is an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract: no fixed amount, with work ordered later as separate task orders, generally $350,000 to $10,000,000 each. Twelve awards are targeted as reserves, three each for 8(a) (SBA's program for disadvantaged firms), HUBZone, women-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned firms. Offers need a bonding letter for $10 million per project, and the response due date is November 4, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern Time.
Who can bid (4)
- Small business under NAICS 236220 (the size standard shown is $45M). The notice is a total small business set-aside with reserves.
- For one of the 12 reserve awards (3 each): hold the status when you submit your offer. The programs are 8(a) (SBA program for socially and economically disadvantaged firms), HUBZone (firms in SBA-designated areas), women-owned small business (WOSB) and service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB). Declarations are checked in SAM.gov.
- Registered in SAM.gov (the federal contractor database).
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- Evidence of bonding capacity (a surety's promise to back your bonds) of at least $10,000,000 per project, as a letter submitted with the proposal.
How to submit: Email PDF files to the Contracting Officer, Jay Oxenberg, at jay.oxenberg@gsa.gov. Paper copies are not accepted. One email is preferred; several are allowed if all arrive by the deadline and are clearly labeled.. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (12)
From the version posted Oct 14, 2026.
- Serious: Small business only; reserve awards depend on status held at offer time. Only small businesses can bid. Reserve awards go by 8(a), HUBZone, women-owned or service-disabled veteran-owned status held at offer submission, so a status gained later does not count.
- Serious: Bonding letter of $10 million per project is pass/fail. A proposal without the required bonding letter is unacceptable and is not evaluated further. The $10 million is per project, not an aggregate.
- Serious: Past projects must fit narrow rules. Projects outside the $350,000 to $10 million range, or not substantially complete within 6 years of October 29, 2026, are not evaluated. A firm without such projects cannot score on the most important factor.
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- Worth checking: Final CPARS or client-signed PPQ needed for every project. Only a client-completed PPQ or a final CPARS counts. An interim CPARS or other reference letters are not accepted, so references need time to respond.
- Worth checking: Price sheet: missing labor price disqualifies; rates become ceilings. Every labor category must be priced. Accepted markups and labor rates become binding ceiling rates on all task orders, for up to five years, with escalation set by your yearly rate.
- Worth checking: All amendments must be acknowledged with the proposal. Amendments 001 through 007 are posted. Failing to acknowledge receipt before the deadline may get the offer rejected.
- Worth checking: Only $2,500 is guaranteed. The contract guarantees a minimum of $2,500. All other work depends on winning task orders against the other awardees.
- Minor: Response due date moved to November 4, 2026. Amendment 007 extends the response due date to November 4, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern Time from October 29, 2026, 4:00 PM, set in the solicitation and Amendment 001. SAM.gov shows the new date.
- Minor: Price qualifications can get an offer rejected. Adding qualifications, exclusions or conditions to your prices lets the Contracting Officer reject the proposal and exclude you from further discussions.
- Minor: Limits on subcontracting apply. The Agreement lists the limitations on subcontracting clause, which restricts how much of the work a small business prime may pass to others.
- Minor: Wage determinations come with each task order. The Agreement lists the Construction Wage Rate Requirements clause (Davis-Bacon, which sets minimum pay for construction workers). The wage rates for a job arrive with its task order.
- Minor: Some work is in secure facilities. Task orders may cover data centers, control systems and secure rooms, which can bring access, security and staffing rules set at the task order level.
Read from the notice and 12 attachments. 7 of 19 not read. Show which files.
- Solicitation Amendment 47PH5226R0003_0007_PDF.pdf (read)
- Solicitation Amendment 47PH5226R0003_0006_PDF.pdf (read)
- Solicitation Amendment 47PH5226R0003_0005_PDF.pdf (read)
- Solicitation Amendment 47PH5226R0003_0004_PDF.pdf (read)
- Solicitation Amendment 47PH5226R0003_0003_PDF.pdf (read)
- Solicitation Amendment 47PH5226R0003_0002_PDF.pdf (read)
- Solicitation Amendment 47PH5226R0003_0001_PDF.pdf (read)
- Excel Price Offer Sheet Instructions.pdf (read)
- Solicitation 47PH5226R0003.pdf (read)
- Agreement 47PH5226R0003.pdf (read)
- GSA 527 - Contractor Qualifications and Financial Information.pdf (read)
- ATTACHMENT C- SOCIOECONOMIC DESIGNATIONS WORD VERSION.docx (read)
- Excel Price Offer Sheet.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- ATTACHMENT C- SOCIOECONOMICS DESIGNATIONS PDF VERSION.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- ATTACHMENT B- PRIOR EXPERIENCE ON RELEVANT PROJECTS- OFFEROR WORKSHEET WORD VERSION.docx: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- ATTACHMENT B- PRIOR EXPERIENCE ON RELEVANT PROJECTS - OFFEROR WORKSHEET PDF VERSION.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- ATTACHMENT A- PAST PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE._Solicitation Attachment WORD Version.docx: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- ATTACHMENT A- PAST PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE._Solicitation Attachment PDF Version.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- Form 1442 for Solicitation No. 47PH5226R0003.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- General construction, repair, alteration and modernization of existing federal buildings, ordered as task orders. Examples: offices, mechanical/electrical/plumbing repairs, fire sprinklers, sitework, facades, roofs, demolition with hazardous material abatement, elevator modernization.
- Work in sensitive settings: laboratories, secure rooms (SCIFs), high-security data centers, critical infrastructure control systems and high-security buildings.
- Both design-bid-build (construction from the Government's finished designs) and design-build (the contractor also designs).
- Act as the general contractor and single point of responsibility, supervising and contracting all labor, materials, equipment and construction for each project.
- Work at federally owned and leased locations in all of Washington, D.C., plus named Virginia and Maryland counties and cities; the Government may widen the area.
- Compete for task orders against the other awardees. Each award gets a fair opportunity (a chance to compete) for each order.
- Price markups (home office overhead, profit, bonds and insurance), eight supervision labor rates and a yearly escalation rate on an Excel sheet; accepted rates become ceiling rates.
- After award: a bid guarantee for each future task order, with scopes, drawings and wage determinations issued per task order.
- Contract type
- Multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) construction contract; task orders compete among awardees, and the labor rates are firm-fixed-price hourly rates (one set price per hour)
- Period of performance
- 1 base year + 4 one-year options (5 years total); anticipated base year February 1, 2027 through January 31, 2028, last option through January 31, 2032, to be finalized at award
- Place of performance
- Washington, DC, USA (SAM.gov). Primary geography: all of Washington, D.C.; Virginia: Arlington, Fairfax and Loudon counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church; Maryland: Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Federally owned and leased locations.
- Estimated value
- Maximum ordering limit (a ceiling, not a Government estimate): $500,000,000.00 total for all task orders to all awardees over the 5 years. General task order range $350,000.00 to $10,000,000.00; minimum guarantee $2,500.00.
- How they'll choose
- Highest technically rated with a fair and reasonable price. All factors other than price, combined, are significantly more important than price. Awards without negotiations are intended, but the Government may negotiate.
- Offers due
- November 4, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern Time
- How to submit
- Email PDF files to the Contracting Officer, Jay Oxenberg, at jay.oxenberg@gsa.gov. Paper copies are not accepted. One email is preferred; several are allowed if all arrive by the deadline and are clearly labeled.
- Page limits
- Attachment B (prior experience worksheet): 3 pages per project; pages beyond that are not evaluated. Maximum 5 projects.
What they'll judge offers on
- Prior Experience on Relevant Projects (Factor 1, relatively more important than Past Performance): up to 5 projects, each a discrete project of $350,000 to $10 million construction cost at award, substantially complete within 6 years of October 29, 2026, with favorable characteristics such as a high degree of self-performance
- Past Performance on Relevant Projects (Factor 2): a client-completed Past Performance Questionnaire (PPQ) or a final CPARS evaluation (government contractor performance report) for each Factor 1 project
- Evidence of Bonding Capacity (Factor 3, pass/fail): letter showing at least $10 million per project
- Price: Total Evaluated Price from the Excel Price Offer Sheet, used only to judge price reasonableness; markups and labor rates become ceiling rates
What to include when you submit
- Send the price proposal and the technical proposal as two separate PDF files.
- Price proposal: Standard Form 1442 (SF 1442, the form you sign as your offer), fully signed, with the Total Evaluated Price from cell D30 of the Excel Price Offer Sheet in block 17.
- Fill only the 12 yellow cells of the Excel Price Offer Sheet (3 markup rates, 8 labor rates, 1 escalation rate), download it as a PDF, and submit it with the SF 1442.
- Price every labor category on the sheet; an offer missing a labor category price is disqualified.
- Do not add qualifications, exclusions or conditions to your prices; the Contracting Officer may reject the proposal.
- Technical proposal: a completed Attachment B for each project, up to 5 projects for the prime contractor team as a whole.
- Each project must be a discrete project (a task order under an IDIQ counts; the base IDIQ itself does not), general construction, with construction cost at award of $350,000 to $10 million, and substantially complete within 6 years of October 29, 2026.
- Include a completed Attachment C (socioeconomic designations) declaring every status you hold at the time of offer, such as small business, 8(a), HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned or women-owned.
- For each project, include a Past Performance Questionnaire (Attachment A) completed by the client, or a final CPARS evaluation. For a task order, it must be for that task order, not the base IDIQ.
- If a client PPQ can't be obtained, submit the first two pages of the PPQ with the contract and client information, though the Government can't promise to reach the client.
- Include a signed letter on bonding capacity of at least $10 million per project: from a surety on the Treasury Department's Circular 570 list, or from an authorized broker, endorsed by such a surety.
- Include the Representations and Certifications (via SAM.gov) and a completed GSA Form 527, Contractor's Qualifications and Financial Information.
- Joint ventures must include a copy of the joint venture agreement; joint venture and teaming documents must come with the proposal.
- Acknowledge every amendment with your proposal (seven amendments are listed).
After award, you must have
- A bid guarantee (a bond or other security backing a bid) is required for each future task order, not for this solicitation. From Solicitation 47PH5226R0003.pdf:
A BID GUARANTEE IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THIS SOLICITATION BUT WILL BE…
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The Government plans about 18 awards, including a target of 12 reserve awards. Amendment 0004 lists all pre-proposal conference registrants.
Not in the notice text
- Not all text was read. The middle of the Solicitation and the Agreement was left out, including the full technical proposal and evaluation sections and the Project Labor Agreement section. Attached on SAM.gov but not read: Excel Price Offer Sheet.xlsx, Attachment A (Past Performance Questionnaire), Attachment B (prior experience worksheet), Form 1442 and the PDF of Attachment C. Check these on SAM.gov.
- The names and definitions of the eight labor categories are on the Excel sheet's Rate Definitions/Instructions tab, which was not read.
- The documents read mention no site visit for the IDIQ itself. Task order scopes, drawings, site requirements, liquidated damages and wage determinations are set at the task order level.
- The Attachment B font size and the email attachment size limit are in the Government's answers in Amendments 0003 and 0007. Those answers came out garbled; check them on SAM.gov.
- Amendment 0004's answer on Virginia and D.C. contractor licenses came out garbled and appears to say none is needed at proposal submission; confirm in the amendment.
- Which Government office or agencies will place task orders is not stated.
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 236220
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email PDF files to the Contracting Officer, Jay Oxenberg, at jay.oxenberg@gsa.gov. Paper copies are not accepted. One email is preferred; several are allowed if all arrive by the deadline and are clearly labeled. 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 30, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- PBS Centralized Acquisition Services IDV - East, Washington, DC
- Product/service code
- Z2AA · Repair or Alteration of Office Buildings
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
9 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 14, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 4, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 9, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 29, 2026
- Oct 8, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 29, 2026
- Oct 6, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 29, 2026
- Oct 1, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 29, 2026
- Sep 30, 2026 · Amendment 0007 (this version)Due Oct 29, 2026
- Sep 30, 2026 · AmendmentDue Oct 29, 2026
- Sep 25, 2026 · SolicitationDue Oct 29, 2026
- Sep 10, 2026 · PresolicitationNo date on SAM.gov
- 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
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