Presolicitation
General Services Administration (GSA) Lease: Office Space FOREST, MISSISSIPPI
General Services Administration · Public Buildings Service
AI summaryThe General Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service is seeking 6,400 to 6,600 ABOA (ANSI/BOMA Office Area, usable office space) square feet of fully serviced office space in Forest, Mississippi, with 41 surface parking spaces, for a customer-facing agency. This is a presolicitation: property owners or their representatives send expressions of interest by the response due date of November 2, 2026, 5:00 PM Central (6:00 PM Eastern). The lease would run 10 years, 5 firm and 5 option. More in the summary
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The General Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service is seeking 6,400 to 6,600 ABOA (ANSI/BOMA Office Area, usable office space) square feet of fully serviced office space in Forest, Mississippi, with 41 surface parking spaces, for a customer-facing agency. This is a presolicitation: property owners or their representatives send expressions of interest by the response due date of November 2, 2026, 5:00 PM Central (6:00 PM Eastern). The lease would run 10 years, 5 firm and 5 option.
Who can bid (4)
- Offered property must lie within the delineated area and offer 6,400 to 6,600 ABOA square feet
- A fully serviced lease (the rent covers building services and operating costs)
- Space must not be in the 1-percent-annual-chance floodplain
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- Owner or authorized representative with written consent from the ownership
How to submit: Email to Adrienne Jackson, Lease Contracting Officer, at ADRIENNE.JACKSON@GSA.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 21, 2026.
- Serious: Property must be in a small delineated area. Only buildings inside the named boundary streets in Forest can qualify, and the size range is narrow.
- Serious: Floodplain exclusion. A building in the 1-percent-annual-chance floodplain is ruled out.
- Worth checking: Government may stay in its current building. The agency moves only if new space is economically advantageous after relocation costs.
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- Minor: Representatives need owner consent. A broker or other representative must attach written consent from the property owner.
- Minor: Section 889 telecommunications rules. Offerors are told to learn the Section 889 ban on certain telecommunications equipment.
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Full summary
What they want
- 6,400 to 6,600 ABOA square feet of office and related space in Forest, MS, inside the delineated area (W: Blossom Hill Rd, N: Hwy 80, E: Hwy 35, S: I-20)
- 41 surface parking spaces
- A fully serviced lease with a 10-year full term: 5 years firm and 5 years option
- Column spacing of 20 FT from interior and no more than 2 FT square
- Ground floor preferred, or a higher floor with access to at least two ADA elevators
- Space meeting Government requirements for fire safety, accessibility, seismic and sustainability standards
- Estimated dates: market survey November 5, 2026; occupancy June 12, 2027
- Contract type
- Lease, fully serviced
- Period of performance
- 10 years full term: 5 years firm and 5 years option
- Place of performance
- Forest, MS (delineated area W: Blossom Hill Rd, N: Hwy 80, E: Hwy 35, S: I-20)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- No scoring method is stated; the Government will weigh whether alternative space is economically advantageous compared with its current space
- Offers due
- November 2, 2026, 5:00 PM Central (6:00 PM Eastern)
- How to submit
- Email to Adrienne Jackson, Lease Contracting Officer, at ADRIENNE.JACKSON@GSA.GOV
What they'll judge offers on
- Availability of alternative space that can meet the Government's requirements
- Relocation costs: physical move, replacing tenant improvements and telecommunication infrastructure, and non-productive agency downtime
What to include when you submit
- Give the building name and address
- Give the contact information and email of the offeror's authorized representative
- Give ABOA and rentable square feet available, naming the specific floors and square footages
- Give the asking full-service rental rate per ABOA and rentable square foot, including a standard GSA warm-lit shell, or the operating costs per square foot included in the full-service rates
- If a representative (not the owner or manager) submits, attach the ownership's written consent for the representative to give the information
Current contractor
The Government now occupies office space in a building under a lease in Forest, MS that will be expiring; the landlord is not named.
Not in the notice text
- Which fire safety, accessibility, seismic and sustainability standards apply is set in the lease terms, which are not in the notice.
- What changed between the two posted versions is not described.
- The notice gives no rental budget or estimated value.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to Adrienne Jackson, Lease Contracting Officer, at ADRIENNE.JACKSON@GSA.GOV. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- PBS R7 Office of Leasing, Fort Worth, TX
- Product/service code
- X1AA · Lease/Rental of Office Buildings
- Business type
- Real estate, rentals & leasing (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 531120)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 21, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 2, 2026
- Oct 15, 2026 · PresolicitationDue Nov 2, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
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Before you respond
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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