Sources Sought
657-27-103JB, FCA Replace Building 51 Roof, JB
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryThis is a sources sought notice, market research only, from the VA (Network Contract Office 15) for replacing the Building 51 roof at the St. Louis VA Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks (36C25527Q0044). The VA is checking whether enough service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) can do it before a set-aside decision. The future work is about 56,000 square feet of TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin) roofing, finished within 222 calendar days, estimated at $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. More in the summary
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This is a sources sought notice, market research only, from the VA (Network Contract Office 15) for replacing the Building 51 roof at the St. Louis VA Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks (36C25527Q0044). The VA is checking whether enough service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) can do it before a set-aside decision. The future work is about 56,000 square feet of TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin) roofing, finished within 222 calendar days, estimated at $2,000,000 to $5,000,000.
Who can bid
- Service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) under NAICS 236220, registered with the SBA certification site by the response date.
- Registered in SAM.gov with NAICS 236220 (size standard $45 million average annual receipts).
- Bonding capacity shown by a surety letter.
How to submit: Email to Jennifer.Hill@va.gov. 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 29, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside planned. SAM.gov lists this as an SDVOSB set-aside, so firms without SBA SDVOSB certification likely can't bid on the solicitation.
- Worth checking: Market research only. No award comes from this notice; you must respond again to the solicitation when it is posted.
- Worth checking: Bonding letter needed. A $2 million to $5 million project needs a surety able to bond that size of job.
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- Worth checking: Occupied building, around the clock. Work must keep a 24/7 occupied hospital building watertight, with infection-control and HVAC-intake protection.
- Minor: 20-year NDL warranty. The roof needs a 20-year no-dollar-limit manufacturer warranty, which requires a manufacturer-approved installer.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Capability statements (10 single-sided pages at most) from firms able to replace the Building 51 roofs
- Future work: remove existing roofing and install mechanically fastened insulation, cover board and fully adhered 70-mil TPO membrane on about 56,000 square feet
- Future work: flash penetrations and parapets, replace drain covers, reflash scuppers, fix about 250 square feet of depressed roof
- Future work: remove and reinstall the lightning-protection system, replace the penthouse roof-access ladder, install walking pads
- Future work: replace four skylights with shop drawings sealed by a licensed structural engineer
- Future work: as-built record drawings in searchable PDF and editable CAD, and a 20-year no-dollar-limit (NDL) warranty
- Period of performance
- 222 calendar days after the Notice to Proceed (for the future contract)
- Place of performance
- Building 51, St. Louis VA Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO
- Estimated value
- $2,000,000.00 to $5,000,000.00 (estimated magnitude of the construction price range)
- How they'll choose
- Responses are reviewed for market research only; a future solicitation is expected to be a best value request for proposal (RFP).
- Offers due
- November 9, 2026, 10:00 AM Central
- How to submit
- Email to Jennifer.Hill@va.gov
- Page limits
- Capability statement: 10 single-sided pages
What to include when you submit
- Put "SOURCES SOUGHT: 36C25527Q0044 Project 657-27-103JB, FCA Replace Building 51 Roof" in the email subject line and on the first page.
- Give your firm's name, address, point of contact, phone, email and EIN (Employer Identification Number).
- State your interest in bidding when the solicitation is issued.
- Give at least 3 examples of comparable work in the past 5 years, with description, customer, timeliness, satisfaction and dollar value.
- Include your veteran-owned certification and your socio-economic status for NAICS 236220.
- State the percentage of the labor your company can self-perform.
- Give any joint venture information, existing or potential.
- Include a surety letter giving your bonding level per contract and in aggregate.
Not in the notice text
- Whether a site visit will be held is not stated.
- Which Davis-Bacon wage determination will apply is not stated.
- The drawings and specifications referred to are not attached to this notice.
- When the solicitation will be issued is 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 236220
- 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 29, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- 255-Network Contract Office 15 (36C255), Leavenworth, KS
- Product/service code
- Z2DA · Repair or Alteration 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 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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