Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
INSCOM G-2 Access Control and Security Escorts (ACES)
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) at Fort Belvoir, Virginia wants unarmed Access Control Officers, Security Escorts and Site Supervisors to guard its secure rooms for classified work (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, SCIFs). It is a single-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract: work is ordered through separate task orders. Only firms in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program can bid. The response due date is November 18, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern, moved by Amendment 0001 from November 4, 2026, 12:00 PM. More in the summary
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Summary of the version posted Oct 15, 2026. The notice was amended Oct 20, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 1 of 9 attachments weren't read (Attachment 0003_GFPM_Revision 0001.xlsx). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) at Fort Belvoir, Virginia wants unarmed Access Control Officers, Security Escorts and Site Supervisors to guard its secure rooms for classified work (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, SCIFs). It is a single-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract: work is ordered through separate task orders. Only firms in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program can bid. The response due date is November 18, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern, moved by Amendment 0001 from November 4, 2026, 12:00 PM.
Who can bid (4)
- Must be a participant in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program; the notice is an 8(a) set-aside
- Top Secret facility clearance: the draft DD Form 254 (contract security classification specification) shows TOP SECRET for the required facility clearance level, and the work requires access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)
- Proposed Site Supervisors need four years as an Access Control Officer and two years of supervisory experience, which may come from other federal or commercial contracts
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- Active SAM.gov registration with current representations and certifications
Things to watch (11)
- Serious: 8(a) firms only. Only businesses in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program can bid; other small businesses are not eligible.
- Serious: Top Secret facility clearance and cleared staff. Your company needs a Top Secret facility clearance, and every worker needs a final Top Secret clearance and SCI indoctrination; interim clearances don't count.
- Worth checking: Large staff to recruit and clear. The estimate is 69 full-time equivalents (FTEs, one full-time worker each) across several locations, including round-the-clock Access Control Officer posts, and the Staffing Plan is the most important factor.
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- Worth checking: Site Supervisor experience can sink an offer. Site Supervisors need four years as an Access Control Officer plus two years of supervisory experience, and the Government says this requirement stays as written.
- Worth checking: Prices go in the Government's spreadsheet. You must price each location in the GFPM spreadsheet, and the Government checks for unbalanced pricing (one line priced far too high or low).
- Worth checking: Service Contract Act wages apply. Bidders must match each labor category to a Department of Labor wage determination occupation themselves, and rates must meet the wage determinations for Augusta, Fort Meade, Killeen and Charlottesville.
- Worth checking: Services continue through emergencies. Essential staff must report to their posts during a crisis, you must notify the Government within two hours, and you must keep a pool of cleared reserve staff.
- Minor: Response due date moved by Amendment 0001. The response due date is now November 18, 2026, 3:00 PM, moved from November 4, 2026, 12:00 PM; use the new date.
- Minor: Quality control plan due date differs. The performance work statement says 15 workdays after award, while the deliverables table says 15 calendar days; ask the contracting officer which governs.
- Minor: Pre-award survey and 7-day information requests. The Government may visit your facility or ask for financial, technical or management information, and may find you not responsible if you don't respond within seven calendar days.
- Minor: Transition and start timing. The 30-day transition counts inside the 12-month base year, and the Government may extend the incumbent contract if source selection runs long.
Read from the notice and 8 attachments. 1 of 9 not read. Show which files.
- Solicitation Amendment W50NH926RA0280001 SF 30_101526_Signed.pdf (read)
- Attachment 0001_IDIQ - INSCOM G-2 ACES_Performance Work Statement_Revision 0001.pdf (read)
- Attachment 0002_Draft_DD254_Solicitation_G-2 ACES_Revision 0001.pdf (read)
- EXHIBIT A_CDRLs A001-A015_INSCOM G-2ACES_DRAFT.pdf (read)
- Attachment 0006_Mission-Critical_Contractor_Services_INSCOM_G-2_ACES.pdf (read)
- Attachment 0004_G-2_Access_Control_QASP.pdf (read)
- Amendment 0001_Attachment A - Industry Questions and Answers.pdf (read)
- Attachment 0005_SCA Wage Determination_Revision 0001.pdf (read)
- Attachment 0003_GFPM_Revision 0001.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Access Control Officers who control and monitor entry of people and equipment into INSCOM SCIFs, check clearances, run entry-exit inspections and issue badges
- Security Escorts who accompany uncleared visitors and workers inside secure spaces; core hours are 0730 to 1630, Monday through Friday, with occasional after-hours needs
- Site Supervisors for on-site management during core business hours, Monday through Friday; after hours a lead Access Control Officer covers supervision
- Estimated staffing of 69 full-time equivalents: 10 Site Supervisors, 31 Access Control Officers and 28 Security Escorts, with the exact numbers set by each task order
- Access Control Officer coverage 24 hours a day, every day, unless a task order says otherwise; respond to SCIF alarms within five minutes
- Keep shift journals current and inventory Government-furnished items within 15 minutes of each shift
- After award, deliver a quality control plan (QCP, your plan for checking your own work), monthly status reports and the other items on the contract data requirements list (CDRL)
- Keep staffing and mission-critical services running during a crisis, and tell the contracting officer within two hours of a declared emergency
- Contract type
- Single-award IDIQ; task orders will be firm-fixed-price (one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) or labor-hour (paid per hour worked)
- Period of performance
- 12-month base ordering period (includes a 30-day transition) + four 12-month option ordering periods, plus up to 6 more months under FAR 52.217-8; 66 months at most. The Government's objective is award on or about December 27, 2026 and a performance start date of January 27, 2027.
- Place of performance
- Fort Belvoir, Virginia (INSCOM headquarters); the draft DD Form 254 also lists Metro Park in Springfield, Virginia, Fort Meade, Maryland, Charlottesville, Virginia, Augusta, Georgia and Killeen, Texas
- Estimated value
- Government's maximum ceiling of $84,200,000 across all ordering periods, including any extension under FAR 52.217-8
- How they'll choose
- Two factors: Staffing Plan (Volume 1) is significantly more important than Price (Volume 2). The Government intends to award without discussions.
- Offers due
- November 18, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern (from the version posted Oct 15, 2026; amended since)
- Page limits
- Volume I (Staffing Plan): 5 pages, including a brief transition summary
What they'll judge offers on
- Staffing Plan (Volume 1): the Government rates the risk of the bidder's process and plan to recruit, vet, retain and staff people who meet or exceed the minimum labor category qualifications for Site Supervisor (10 FTEs), Access Control Officer (31 FTEs) and Security Escort (28 FTEs); rated from Outstanding to Unacceptable
- Price (Volume 2): Total Evaluated Price from the pricing spreadsheet, adding ordering periods 1 to 5 and the 6-month extension, reviewed for reasonableness, completeness and unbalanced pricing
What to include when you submit
- Send two volumes: Volume 1 Staffing Plan and Volume 2 Price
- Complete, sign and send the Standard Form 1449 (SF 1449, the form you sign and return as your offer) from the solicitation, plus signed copies of Standard Form 30 (SF 30, the amendment form) for every amendment
- If your SAM.gov representations and certifications are current, send only the solicitation-specific fill-ins that SAM.gov doesn't capture
- Enter prices per location in the Government Furnished Pricing Model (GFPM, the Government's pricing spreadsheet), Attachment 0003, Revision 1, covering the base period and each option period
- Include only a brief, high-level transition summary narrative within the five-page limit of Volume I; the full Transition-In Plan is delivered after award
- Propose shift structures in the Staffing Plan that cover the required coverage hours, and price one Access Control Officer post per shift for Killeen, Texas (116th), as the GFPM shows
- Travel and Defense Base Act insurance are no longer priced (Amendment 0001). No Property Management Plan or Mission-Essential Contractor Services Plan is needed with the proposal
After award, you must have
- Every person must hold a final adjudicated Top Secret clearance and be SCI-indoctrinated before working on their own; an interim Top Secret clearance is not accepted From Amendment 0001_Attachment A - Industry Questions and Answers.pdf:
An interim Top Secret clearance is not acceptable for personnel to begin…
Current contractor
An incumbent contractor exists but is not named: the Government's answers mention the incumbent contract, an incumbent "Task Order 26" and incumbent uniform logo patches, and say the incumbent contract may be extended if source selection takes longer. Incumbent employees are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
Not in the notice text
- Only part of the solicitation amendment file (which holds Section M), the performance work statement, the question-and-answer file, the contract data requirements list and the wage determinations was read, and the pricing spreadsheet (Attachment 0003_GFPM, Revision 0001.xlsx) was attached but not read. Section B, Section L and the rest of the solicitation are in the unread parts.
- How to submit the proposal (email or portal) is in Section L, which was not read.
- Locations, hours and posts to price are in the pricing spreadsheet, which was not read; the Government's answers refer to nine locations in it.
- Section M.2.1(j), which says offers may be rejected over experience, was amended, but the answer is cut off; check it for which staff it covers.
- The incumbent's name and current contract number are not given.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Only firms in SBA's 8(a) program can bid as the prime contractor. Not in the 8(a) program? How the 8(a) program works. More open 8(a) set-asides under NAICS 561612
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- W6QK Inscom Belvoir, Fort Belvoir, VA
- Product/service code
- R430 · Support – Professional: Physical Security and Badging
- Business type
- Security & guard services (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 561612)
- Versions
5 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 20, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 18, 2026
- Oct 15, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 18, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 24, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 4, 2026
- Sep 23, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 4, 2026
- Sep 23, 2026 · Combined Synopsis/SolicitationDue Nov 4, 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 respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Open 8(a) set-aside contracts
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, 8(a) program, Set-aside
Latest amendment note (Amendment 1) from SAM.gov
Amendment 0001 – Solicitation W50NH9-26-R?A028 published on October 15, 2026. Title: Amendment Notice – Administrative, Technical, and Pricing Updates; Closure of Q&A Period Classification: 8(a) Small Business Set?Aside Contract Type: Firm Fixed Price / Labor Hours 1. Purpose of Amendment 0001 Amendment 0001 to Solicitation W50NH9-26-R?A028 is hereby issued to modify various administrative, technical, and pricing elements of the solicitation. The amendment does not alter the core terms, conditions, or overall acquisition strategy. The official Question and Answer period is now closed; no additional vendor inquiries will be accepted or responded to. Government Responses to Vendor Questions Incorporated: All official Government responses to vendor inquiries are included in this amendment and are considered part of the solicitation. All revised solicitation documents issued under Amendment 0001 are labeled “Revision 0001.” Proposal Submission Deadline Extended: The due date for receipt of proposals is extended to 18 November 2026 at 3:00 PM EST.
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