Presolicitation
Flooring IDR Pre-Solicitation Notice
Department of Defense · Department of the Air Force
AI summaryThis is a presolicitation (an advance notice before the request for quotes) from the 319th Contracting Squadron at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, for a flooring requirements contract set aside for small businesses. It is a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price per item, whatever the work ends up costing) contract with a 5-year ordering period. SAM.gov's response date, October 31, 2026, 12:00 PM Central, is when the solicitation is expected. More in the summary
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This is a presolicitation (an advance notice before the request for quotes) from the 319th Contracting Squadron at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, for a flooring requirements contract set aside for small businesses. It is a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price per item, whatever the work ends up costing) contract with a 5-year ordering period. SAM.gov's response date, October 31, 2026, 12:00 PM Central, is when the solicitation is expected.
Who can bid
- Small business under NAICS 238330 (Flooring Contractors), size standard $19 Million; this is a total small business set-aside
- Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM), the federal contractor database, to be eligible for award
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 23, 2026.
- Serious: Small business set-aside. Only small businesses under the $19 Million size standard for NAICS 238330 can be awarded this contract.
- Worth checking: No guaranteed minimum. The quantities on the price schedule are estimates only, so the work you actually get could be well below them.
- Minor: Questions were due Oct 23, 2026. Check the amendments for the agency's answers.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Flooring work as needed under a requirements contract (the agency orders only when it needs the work)
- All work performed at Grand Forks AFB, ND
- Task orders from $2,000.00 minimum to $300,000.00 maximum each, awarded to a single contractor
- Contract type
- Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery Requirements Contract (a contract where the agency orders work as needed and the price per item is fixed)
- Period of performance
- 5-year ordering period
- Place of performance
- Grand Forks AFB, ND
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- October 31, 2026, 12:00 PM Central
Not in the notice text
- How to send a quote and the quote contents are not stated; they are expected in the solicitation
- How the award will be decided and the evaluation factors are not stated
- The price schedule, flooring types, quantities and the Government's estimated total value are not stated
- The solicitation's release date and its response due date are not stated; SAM.gov shows October 31, 2026, 12:00 PM Central as the response date
- Bonding, insurance and wage rules (Davis-Bacon wage determination) and whether there is a site visit are 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 238330
- 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 23, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- FA4659 319 CONS PK, Grand Forks AFB, ND
- Product/service code
- 7220 · Floor Coverings
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 238330)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 23, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Oct 31, 2026
- Oct 16, 2026 · PresolicitationDue Oct 31, 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
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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