Solicitation
R-410A LEAK DETECTORS (Bldgs 750, 751 & 768)
Department of Defense · Department of the Air Force
AI summaryThe Department of the Air Force's 19 CONS contracting office at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, wants hard-wired R-410A refrigerant leak detectors installed in 186 dormitory bedrooms in Buildings 750, 751 and 768; this is a total small business set-aside. It is a request for quote (RFQ): a priced offer with technical and past performance parts, with the response due date November 2, 2026, 9:00 AM Central. Only Building 751 is in the base lines; Buildings 750 and 768 are option lines (extra lines the Government may choose to buy). More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 27, 2026. See the latest version.
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Summary of the version posted Oct 20, 2026. The notice was amended Oct 27, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 3 of 10 attachments weren't read (Drawing - Mechanical PartB.pdf, Drawing - 005 A4 As-Built 1st Flr Reference Plan.pdf and 1 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Department of the Air Force's 19 CONS contracting office at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, wants hard-wired R-410A refrigerant leak detectors installed in 186 dormitory bedrooms in Buildings 750, 751 and 768; this is a total small business set-aside. It is a request for quote (RFQ): a priced offer with technical and past performance parts, with the response due date November 2, 2026, 9:00 AM Central. Only Building 751 is in the base lines; Buildings 750 and 768 are option lines (extra lines the Government may choose to buy).
Who can bid
- Be a small business under NAICS 238220 (the solicitation lists a size standard of $19,000,000); the buy is a total small business set-aside.
- Have an active SAM (System for Award Management) registration when you submit the offer; without it the offer is excluded from evaluation.
- Use a licensed electrician, supervised by a licensed Master Electrician, for all electrical modifications, circuit connections, conduit routing and receptacle installation.
How to submit: Signed and dated offers go to the issuing office, 19 CONS (FA4460), Little Rock AFB; the text read does not say whether by email or portal.. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (13)
- Serious: Licensed electrician and Master Electrician required. All electrical work must be done by a licensed electrician under a licensed Master Electrician, so a firm without that license or a partner who has it cannot do the job.
- Worth checking: Active SAM registration needed at submission. An inactive or missing registration gets the offer excluded from evaluation. Check a SAM.gov registration.
- Worth checking: Base access limited to U.S. citizens with REAL ID or passport. Staff who are not U.S. citizens may need up to 30 days to get base authorization, which affects the site visit and the work.
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- Worth checking: Buildings 750 and 768 are option lines. Only Building 751 is a base line; the other two buildings are options that the Government decides on at award, though all six lines are added into the evaluated price.
- Worth checking: Funds not presently available. The Government's obligation depends on appropriated funds becoming available, so an award could be delayed or not made.
- Worth checking: Rooms must be usable again within three days of starting drywall repair. Your execution plan must show how each affected dorm room returns to use within three calendar days after drywall repair starts, and you pay for the drywall and paint repairs.
- Minor: Work in occupied dorm rooms with escorts. Occupants keep different schedules, a facility manager escorts you inside rooms, and you may have to move furniture.
- Minor: The site visit was Oct 23, 2026. Check the notice and its amendments for whether attendance was required, and whether another visit is offered.
- Minor: Questions were due Oct 26, 2026. Check the amendments for the agency's answers.
- Minor: Top past performance rating needs 75 or more units. A past job counts as very relevant only if it involved 75 or more units or device points and was done in occupied buildings with drywall repair and painting; lack of past performance does not disqualify an offer.
- Minor: Delivery dates due within 7 working days after award. After award you must give the estimated material delivery date within 7 working days, then a milestone timeline within 14 business days.
- Minor: Schedule says '90 Calendar Year' but the PWS says 90 days. The delivery schedule lines read '90 Calendar Year' while the performance work statement says 90 days after material arrives; ask the contracting officer to confirm.
- Minor: Separate price for each building with labor and material breakout. Pricing must follow the CLIN structure, with each building priced on its own lines.
Read from the notice and 7 attachments. 3 of 10 not read. Show which files.
- Solicitation - FA446027Q0006.pdf (read)
- PWS B750-751-768 R-410A LEAK DETECTORS.pdf (read)
- Refrigerant Detectors - Addendum 52.212-1 & 52.212-2.pdf (read)
- Supplemental Clauses.pdf (read)
- Drawing - Arch.pdf (read)
- Drawing - Electrical.pdf (read)
- Drawing - Mechanical.pdf (read)
- Drawing - Mechanical PartB.pdf: not read (it couldn't be opened): open it on SAM.gov
- Drawing - 005 A4 As-Built 1st Flr Reference Plan.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
- Drawing - A5 As-Built 2nd and 3rd Floor Referen.pdf: not summarized: open it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Furnish and install hard-wired R-410A refrigerant leak detectors in 186 dormitory bedrooms: Building 750 has 64 bedrooms, Building 751 has 72, and Building 768 has 50.
- Detectors must give audio and visual alarms at 1,000 ppm (parts per million), sit in a flush metal gang box (wall electrical box) 6 inches above the floor under the wall receptacle, and run on power from that receptacle.
- Use a licensed electrician under a licensed Master Electrician; give circuit isolation, lockout/tagout (locking power off before work) and occupant notification plans; seal wall openings with fire-rated sealants.
- Repair any drywall damage, finish it and paint to match the existing wall color; dispose of waste and recycle at the base.
- Work with the dormitory facility manager, who escorts the contractor inside rooms; give 48 hours notice before starting at each building.
- Give the Government delivery dates within 7 working days after award and a milestone timeline within 14 business days after award; start installing within 10 days after all material arrives and finish within 90 days after it arrives.
- Test the detectors with a Government representative present, train staff, and hand over maintenance and calibration instructions, with training 5 business days after acceptance.
- Give a 12-month guarantee on material, workmanship and labor, with a warranty letter for each building within 10 business days after acceptance.
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP): one set price per line, whatever the work ends up costing; commercial request for quote with 2 base lines and 4 option lines
- Period of performance
- Work finishes within 90 days after all material is received; the material delivery date is set within 7 working days after award. The guarantee runs 12 months from acceptance.
- Place of performance
- Dormitory Buildings 750, 751 and 768, Fire Lane Blvd., Little Rock AFB, AR 72099
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Best value by performance price tradeoff (PPT): technical and past performance together are significantly more important than price. Quotes are ranked by price, checked for technical acceptability from the lowest price up until three are acceptable, then past performance of the three lowest-priced acceptable quotes is rated.
- Offers due
- November 2, 2026, 9:00 AM Central (from the version posted Oct 20, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- Signed and dated offers go to the issuing office, 19 CONS (FA4460), Little Rock AFB; the text read does not say whether by email or portal.
- Page limits
- Past performance: 8 pages total (2 pages per reference, up to 4 references); CPARS evaluations (Government past performance reports) are not counted
What they'll judge offers on
- Price: total evaluated price adds up CLINs (contract line item numbers, the priced lines) 0001 through 0006, options included
- Technical Evaluation/Capability, rated Acceptable or Unacceptable: (a) technical data for the detectors and gang boxes, (b) execution plan for conduit routing, drywall repair, painting and returning rooms to use
- Past Performance: recency (within 3 years), relevancy (scope, size, occupied-building environment) and quality, giving a confidence rating
What to include when you submit
- Send the quote in three separate parts: Part I - Price, Part II - Technical, Part III - Past Performance.
- Price: complete blocks 12, 17a, and 30a, b and c of Standard Form 1449 (SF 1449, the commercial solicitation and contract form), or use your own document that matches the SF 1449 CLIN structure: base CLINs 0001 and 0002, option CLINs 0003 to 0006.
- Show a separate price for each building with a labor and material cost breakout, and round prices to the nearest cent.
- Show the expiration date of the offer and hold prices firm for at least 60 calendar days after the date offers are due.
- Technical: include technical data and manufacturer information for the R-410A leak detectors and gang boxes, and clearly mark any product offered as an equal item with its literature.
- Technical: include a brief execution plan covering conduit or raceway routing (for example MC cable) to limit drywall damage, drywall repair and painting, and returning each affected dorm room to use within three calendar days of starting drywall repair.
- Past performance: give up to 4 completed or current contracts from the past 3 years, Federal ones first, each with the project name and contract number, customer name and address, customer contact, dollar value, period of performance, work done and why it is relevant, and any performance the customer found unacceptable.
- Past performance: say who is prime and who is subcontractor, and include a letter from each subcontractor that will do major work agreeing to release its past performance to the prime.
- If you have no past performance, tell the contracting officer by the response due date.
- Keep an active SAM registration at the time you submit the offer.
- Fill in the representations and certifications in the solicitation, such as the Buy American Certificate (FAR 52.225-2) listing any foreign end products.
After award, you must have
- Everyone entering the base must be a U.S. citizen with a REAL ID from their home state or a current U.S. passport, and have a base pass; non-U.S. citizens may need up to 30 days for authorization. From PWS B750-751-768 R-410A LEAK DETECTORS.pdf:
…personnel entering Little Rock AFB must be a United States Citizen and have a REAL ID…
Not in the notice text
- How offers are sent (email or portal) is not stated in the text read; the solicitation says only 'to the office specified in this solicitation'.
- Which wage rule applies (Service Contract Act or Davis-Bacon wage determination) is not stated in the text read.
- The total value or budget is not given, and the funds are not presently available.
- Attached but not read: Drawing - Mechanical PartB.pdf (too large) and two scanned as-built floor plans (Drawing - 005 A4 As-Built 1st Flr Reference Plan.pdf and Drawing - A5 As-Built 2nd and 3rd Floor Referen.pdf). The middle of the solicitation form and of the architectural drawing was also left out.
- Whether the option lines for Buildings 750 and 768 will be exercised at award 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 238220
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Signed and dated offers go to the issuing office, 19 CONS (FA4460), Little Rock AFB; the text read does not say whether by email or portal. 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
- Oct 20, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- FA4460 19 CONS PKA, Little Rock AFB, AR
- Product/service code
- 4120 · Air Conditioning Equipment
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 238220)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 27, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 2, 2026
- Oct 20, 2026 · Solicitation (this version)Due Nov 2, 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
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The Contractor shall provide all qualified personnel, transportation, tools, equipment, materials, and services required to install hard-wired refrigerant leak detection systems in 186 dormitory bedrooms within Buildings 750, 751, and 768 at Little Rock Air Force Base (LRAFB), Arkansas. The contractor shall accomplish all services below to meet the requirements in accordance with the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS). Site Visit: A site visit will be held on Friday, 23 October 2026 at 9:00 AM local time. Please meet at the Little Rock AFB Visitors Control Center no later than 8:45 AM to gain base access. RFIs: Questions are due via email to the POCs listed in SAM.gov Monday, 26 October 2026 at 1000 CST.
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