Presolicitation
504-21-703 Training and Admin Support Space Construction
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryOnly service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) can bid. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Network Contracting Office 17 plans an Invitation for Bid (IFB: sealed bids, lowest responsive price wins) for utility pads and concrete pads for mobile EHRM training and admin facilities at the Amarillo VA Health Care System, TX (project 504-21-703, solicitation 36C25727B0001). The estimate is $0 to $1,000,000, with 183 calendar days to finish after the Notice to Proceed. More in the summary
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Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) can bid. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Network Contracting Office 17 plans an Invitation for Bid (IFB: sealed bids, lowest responsive price wins) for utility pads and concrete pads for mobile EHRM training and admin facilities at the Amarillo VA Health Care System, TX (project 504-21-703, solicitation 36C25727B0001). The estimate is $0 to $1,000,000, with 183 calendar days to finish after the Notice to Proceed.
Who can bid
- SBA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business, listed in SBA's Small Business Search database before bid submission
- Small business under NAICS 237130 (size standard $45.0 million)
Things to watch
From the version posted Nov 6, 2026.
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside: SBA certification required. Only SBA-certified SDVOSBs listed in the SBS database at bid time can bid; others may be found nonresponsive.
- Minor: Two tentative solicitation dates. The notice lists both November 30, 2026 and December 30, 2026 as the tentative solicitation date.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Bring electrical power, domestic water, sanitary sewer and telecommunications fiber to three utility pad locations
- Build concrete pads per the drawings and specifications
- Repair or restore landscaping, roads, sidewalks and other areas disturbed by the work
- Provide all labor, supervision, materials, equipment and tools
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) construction contract
- Period of performance
- 183 calendar days after the Notice to Proceed (NTP)
- Place of performance
- Amarillo VA Health Care System, 6010 Amarillo Blvd West, Amarillo, TX 79106
- Estimated value
- $0 to $1,000,000 (the agency's estimated price range)
- How they'll choose
- Invitation for Bid (sealed bidding) under FAR Parts 14 and 36
What to include when you submit
- Be certified by SBA as an SDVOSB and listed in SBA's Small Business Search (SBS) database before you send a bid
Not in the notice text
- This is a presolicitation: the bid due date, bid instructions, drawings and specifications will come with the solicitation.
- SAM.gov's response date of November 21, 2026, 10:00 AM Central doesn't match the tentative solicitation dates in the text.
- Whether there will be a site visit, and whether it will be required, isn't stated.
- Which wage rule applies (a Davis-Bacon wage determination) isn't stated.
- Bonding requirements aren't stated.
- What EHRM stands for isn't spelled out in the notice.
Eligibility and how to respond
- 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 237130
- 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
- Nov 6, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- 257-Network Contract Office 17 (36C257), San Antonio, TX
- Product/service code
- Y1AZ · Construction of Other Administrative Facilities and Service Buildings
- Business type
- Energy, fuel & utilities (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 237130)
- 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
- Open SDVOSB set-aside contracts
- SDVOSB and veteran-owned contracts
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, SDVOSB (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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