Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Replace Dental Vacuum Piping
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryOnly service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) certified in SBA's VetCert can bid. The Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contract Office 21) wants a contractor to replace the dental vacuum piping at the VA Las Vegas Medical Center in North Las Vegas, NV (RFQ 36C26127Q0072). The job runs about 180 calendar days from the notice to proceed (NTP: the order to start work), and award goes on price alone. More in the summary
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Summary of the version posted Oct 28, 2026. The notice was amended Nov 10, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. Some details are in the notice's attachments, which this summary didn't read. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) certified in SBA's VetCert can bid. The Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contract Office 21) wants a contractor to replace the dental vacuum piping at the VA Las Vegas Medical Center in North Las Vegas, NV (RFQ 36C26127Q0072). The job runs about 180 calendar days from the notice to proceed (NTP: the order to start work), and award goes on price alone.
Who can bid
- Certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), listed in SBA's VetCert when the quote is sent and before award
- Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM), with current online representations and certifications
- Small under NAICS 236220 (size standard $45 million)
How to submit: Email to David Rovner, Contract Specialist (David.rovner@va.gov), with a copy to Charee Harris, Contracting Officer (Charee.Harris@va.gov). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
- Serious: SDVOSB set-aside, VetCert required. Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses certified in SBA's VetCert can bid; other quotes won't be accepted.
- Worth checking: Instructions to Quoters are in an attachment. The notice points bidders to separate Instructions to Quoters, so what a quote must contain isn't in the text.
- Minor: The site visit was Oct 26, 2026. Check the notice and its amendments for whether attendance was required, and whether another visit is offered.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Replace the dental vacuum piping at the VA Las Vegas Medical Center (SNVAHCS) in North Las Vegas, NV
- Finish the work in about 180 calendar days from the notice to proceed
- Send a price quote by email, following FAR 52.212-1 and the attached Instructions to Quoters 36C26127Q0072
- Period of performance
- About 180 calendar days from the notice to proceed (NTP)
- Place of performance
- VA Las Vegas Medical Center (SNVAHCS), North Las Vegas, NV
- Estimated value
- Between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00 (project magnitude under FAR 36.204)
- How they'll choose
- Price only: the award goes on price
- Offers due
- November 17, 2026, 12:00 PM PT (from the version posted Oct 28, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- Email to David Rovner, Contract Specialist (David.rovner@va.gov), with a copy to Charee Harris, Contracting Officer (Charee.Harris@va.gov)
What they'll judge offers on
- Price
What to include when you submit
- Send the quote by email only, to David Rovner with Charee Harris copied
- Follow the submission instructions in FAR 52.212-1 (Instructions to Offerors, Commercial Products and Commercial Services)
- Follow the separate Instructions to Quoters 36C26127Q0072
- Have current online representations and certifications on file in SAM
Not in the notice text
- The scope of work, drawings and the Instructions to Quoters 36C26127Q0072 are in attachments that weren't included in the text.
- The wage rule (a Davis-Bacon wage determination) isn't stated in the text.
- Whether bid, payment or performance bonds are required isn't stated.
- The contract type isn't stated.
- Whether any further site visit is planned isn't stated.
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 236220
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to David Rovner, Contract Specialist (David.rovner@va.gov), with a copy to Charee Harris, Contracting Officer (Charee.Harris@va.gov). 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 28, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- 261-Network Contract Office 21 (36C261), Mather, CA
- Product/service code
- Z1DZ · Maintenance of Other Hospital Buildings
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
7 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Nov 10, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 17, 2026
- Oct 28, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 17, 2026
- Oct 28, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 17, 2026
- Oct 28, 2026 · Amendment 0002 (this version)Due Nov 17, 2026
- Oct 19, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 17, 2026
- Oct 19, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 17, 2026
- Oct 19, 2026 · Combined Synopsis/SolicitationDue Nov 17, 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
- Open SDVOSB set-aside 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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