Presolicitation
USACE Sacramento District DB/DBB Construction – $465M Small Business MATOC
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe solicitation is now posted under notice ID W9123827RA005; this presolicitation says the buy runs in phases, with Phase One proposals tentatively due 30 to 45 days after issuance. The Army Corps of Engineers' Sacramento District plans a small business set-aside multiple-award task order contract (MATOC: several firms win the same contract, then compete for each job) for building construction. Total shared capacity is $465,000,000 over an 8-year ordering period, with up to seven awards. More in the summary
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The solicitation is now posted under notice ID W9123827RA005; this presolicitation says the buy runs in phases, with Phase One proposals tentatively due 30 to 45 days after issuance. The Army Corps of Engineers' Sacramento District plans a small business set-aside multiple-award task order contract (MATOC: several firms win the same contract, then compete for each job) for building construction. Total shared capacity is $465,000,000 over an 8-year ordering period, with up to seven awards.
Who can bid (4)
- Small business only: planned total small business set-aside (NAICS 236220, size standard $45,000,000 annual revenue)
- Enough bonding to cover the value of all awarded task orders
- PIEE registration to submit a proposal
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- Registered in SAM (System for Award Management, the federal vendor database)
How to submit: Through PIEE (Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment: the Defense Department's online system for offers); proposals are not accepted any other way. 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 26, 2026.
- Serious: Solicitation is under a different notice ID. The actual solicitation is posted as W9123827RA005, so offers and requirements are there, not in this notice.
- Serious: Phased proposals: Phase One first. This notice is for Phase One proposals, tentatively due 30 to 45 days after issuance. It does not say who may take part in later phases, so a firm that skips Phase One may be shut out.
- Serious: Bonding must cover all task orders. Task orders can reach $20,000,000, so a small firm needs a surety that can back that capacity.
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- Worth checking: PIEE registration needed to submit. Proposals sent any other way are not accepted, and PIEE registration should be done at least one week before the proposal due date.
- Minor: Plans can change or be canceled. The notice says the project or solicitation may be changed, delayed or canceled at any time.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Build, add to, alter, renovate, repair and maintain commercial and institutional buildings and related structures, plus supporting infrastructure, through task orders
- Do both design-build (one firm designs and builds) and design-bid-build (the Government supplies the design and firms bid to build it) task orders
- Support Military, IIS, DVA and Civil Works projects for the Sacramento District, as the notice lists them (it does not spell out IIS or DVA)
- Keep enough bonding to cover the value of all awarded task orders
- Contract type
- Indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ: work is ordered as needed under one umbrella contract) multiple-award task order contract, with firm-fixed-price contracts
- Period of performance
- 8-year ordering period: five-year base with one three-year option period
- Place of performance
- Sacramento, CA, USA per SAM.gov; work is within the Sacramento District's military boundary and area of responsibility, set by each task order
- Estimated value
- Anticipated total shared capacity of $465,000,000 across all awards; the Government estimates task orders between $2,500.00 and $20,000,000.00
- How to submit
- Through PIEE (Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment: the Defense Department's online system for offers); proposals are not accepted any other way
What to include when you submit
- Register in PIEE at least one week before the anticipated proposal due date
- Be registered in SAM before the solicitation closing date
- Identify your firm as an interested vendor on SAM.gov, the only interested vendors list
After award, you must have
- E-Verify (a federal employment eligibility check) is expected to apply to the future contract From the notice:
…any future solicitation and/or resulting contract will be subject to the E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification Program…
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation itself is under notice ID W9123827RA005 and in PIEE; this notice has no evaluation factors, due dates or submission instructions
- Who may take part in phases after Phase One
- Whether there is a pre-proposal conference or site visit; the notice says the solicitation will identify it
- Which wage rule applies (a Davis-Bacon wage determination) is not stated
- Evaluation factors and how awards are decided
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 236220
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Through PIEE (Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment: the Defense Department's online system for offers); proposals are not accepted any other way. 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 26, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- W075 ENDIST Sacramento, CA
- Product/service code
- Y1JZ · Construction of Miscellaneous Buildings
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 26, 2026 · Amendment 0002 (this version)No date on SAM.gov
- Oct 21, 2026 · Amendment 0001No date on SAM.gov
- Sep 8, 2026 · PresolicitationNo date on SAM.gov
- 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
- Set-aside contracts explained
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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