Pre-solicitationPosted Oct 3, 2025·Responses due Oct 17, 2025

Z1DA--531-24-106 Replace AHU-2 Building 85

Veterans Affairs · 260-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 20 (36C260)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
238220
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26026R0019
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
Z1DA
Place
Boise, ID, USA
Contact
Alan Perez (Alan.Perez@va.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26026R0019 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Oct 3, 2025 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
  • Oct 17, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Oct 20, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Oct 20, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Oct 24, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Oct 27, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Nov 14, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Nov 26, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Dec 2, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Dec 3, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Jan 10, 2026
    Award Notice
    DRI INC · $775K
    Open

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

Boise VA Medical Center 500 West Fort Street, Boise, ID 83702 Procurement Number: 36C26026R0019 This is a pre-solicitation notice synopsizing an upcoming competitive solicitation satisfying the requirements of FAR 5.201 and FAR 5.203. An invitation for Request for Proposals (RFP) is anticipated to be posted no later than October 17, 2025. The VA Medical Center located in Boise, ID, has a requirement for a Firmed Fixed Price construction project that the replacement of Air-Handling Unit 2 (AHU-2) in Building 85 at the Boise VA Medical Center (BVAMC) in Boise, Idaho. AHU-2 serves as the primary … (show all)

dual-duct air-handling system for Building 85, providing essential conditioned air to the facility. This project involves designing a replacement unit with modern, high-performance equipment to meet current HVAC demands while improving energy efficiency and system reliability testing. The Contractor shall be responsible for all testing and laboratory services in connection with this project as stated in the contract drawings and specifications. Testing and laboratory services include but are not limited to HVAC test and balance. The Contractor shall provide both paper and electronic copies of all test reports to the COR in a timely manner. The magnitude of this construction project is between $250,000 and $500,000.. The NAICS code for this procurement is 238220 and the size standard is $19 million. The solicitation is being issued in the best value continuum described in FAR Part 15.101. A bid bond is required, and the bid guarantee amount shall be at least 20 percent of the bid price but shall not exceed $3 million. This project is 100% set-aside for Small Businesses. All relevant solicitation documents, including specifications and drawings, may be accessed for download on the date of issue by conducting a search of Solicitation 36C26026R0019 on https://sam.gov/content/opportunities under Contract Opportunities. Any amendments to the presolicitation will be posted solely to this website. It is the responsibility of the offeror to verify the number of amendments issued. All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM): https://www.sam.gov/SAM/ The Government is accepting industry comment on the specifications. Comments may or may not be incorporated, at the discretion of the Government.

Who won similar work

8 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (260-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 20 (36C260)), same product/service code (PSC) Z1DA and NAICS 238220.

Single-winner award sizes (8): middle half $265K to $937K, median $418K; range $150K to $9.6M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
SKYTEK LLC2$1.2MMay 7, 2026
AVALON CONTRACTING INC2$308KJan 17, 2025
Andersen Construction Company1$9.6MJul 10, 2026
GLOBAL ENGINEERING SERVICES INC1$1.6MMar 6, 2026
CAPEX CONSTRUCTION LLC1$332KSep 22, 2026
DRI, INC.1$300KSep 15, 2026

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 6 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 25 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.