Pre-solicitationPosted Oct 5, 2026·Responses due Oct 23, 2026

COMBAT RESCUE HELICOPTER (CRH) SIMULATOR FACILITY, JBER, ALASKA (JBE089)

Army Corps of Engineers · W2SN ENDIST ALASKA

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
236220
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
W911KB27RA009
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
Y1CZ
Place
JBER, AK, USA
Contact
Catherine Williams (catherine.williams@usace.army.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation W911KB27RA009 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Oct 5, 2026 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Jan 25, 2027 to Jun 17, 2027, middle of the range Mar 1, 2027.
Measured from 62 past early notices at Dept of the Army with NAICS 236220 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Oct 5, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

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  • 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

This is a pre-solicitation notice for a 100% Small Business Set Aside Request for Proposals (RFP) to construct a Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) facility utilizing conventional design and construction methods to accommodate the mission of the facility. The work includes construction of a new, properly sited, single floor, 8,202 square foot Combat Rescue Helicopter Simulator Facility that is fully configured. The new building will support the simulator for the HH-60W helicopter, its supporting equipment, briefing/debriefing room, mission planning room, instructor… (show all)

s' office, administrative office, building support rooms, and toilet facilities. The facility will be slab on grade foundation with cold weather-insulated, shallow continuous strip footings, and a thickened cold weather-insulated mat foundation will be located directly below the simulator equipment. The exterior shell of the Simulator Bay will have masonry veneer and metal panel on reinforced concrete masonry units (CMU). The one-story administration areas will be constructed of masonry veneer and metal panel on metal studs. The roof will be low slope standing seam structural metal roofing, with snow guards to provide mitigation of sliding snow. The simulator bay and associated areas will be constructed to collateral secret open storage criteria. There will be a large overhead door into the simulator bay which will also feature an interior overhead crane to move equipment. The work also includes the required site clearing, relocation of utilities, grade changes, connecting the new building systems into the existing base-wide systems, and incidental related work. The estimated dollar magnitude of this project is anticipated between $17,000,000 and $22,000,000. The performance period will be approximately 730 calendar days. The procurement will be conducted using source selection procedures and the award will be based on best value tradeoff source selection procedures, considering the price and non-price factors cited in this announcement and the solicitation. All Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) (https://www.sam.gov/SAM/). Joint ventures must be registered in SAM as the joint venture. Offerors are advised to begin this process when they prepare their proposal in order to ensure this registration is in place should they be selected for the award. Lack of registration in the SAM database will make an Offeror ineligible for award. Anticipated NTP: 1 March 2027 with a 730 calendar-day period of performance; the Davis Bacon Act will apply. (1) PROJECT INFORMATION: To onstruct a Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) facility utilizing conventional design and construction methods to accommodate the mission of the facility. (2) SELECTION CRITERIA: Evaluation criteria to be listed in the solicitation are anticipated to be: Factor 1 � Past Performance (Confidence Assessment) Factor 2 � Technical Approach Factor 3 � Project Execution Concept/Schedule Factor 4 � Price (3) OBTAINING THE SOLICITATION: The solicitation for this project will be provided in electronic format only and is currently scheduled to be available for download on or about 23 October 2026 at the PIEE Solicitation Module website at https://piee.eb.mil/sol/xhtml/unauth/index.xhtml via Solicitation number (W911KB27RA009). Any future amendments to the solicitation will also be available for download from this website. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the agency. All notifications of changes to this solicitation shall be made through the internet only. It is the Offeror�s responsibility to check for any posted changes to this solicitation. NOTE: Electronic proposal submissions will only be accepted via the PIEE Solicitation Module website at: https://piee.eb.mil/sol/xhtml/unauth/index.xhtml. Search via Solicitation Number Search W911K27RA009. IN ORDER TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL, VENDORS MUST REGISTER IN THE PIEE SYSTEM AND MUST HAVE A PROPOSAL MANAGER ROLE ESTABLISHED. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING PROPOSAL MANAGER, PROPOSAL MANAGER FUNCTIONS AND POSTING OFFERS CAN BE FOUD AT https//pieetraining.eb.mil/wbt/xhtml/wbt/sol/solicitation/proposals.xhtml.

Who won similar work

14 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 236220.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
BRICE SOLUTIONS, LLC2$465.6MSep 30, 2025
EKLUTNA CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE, LLC2$460.6MAug 27, 2025
UNIT COMPANY · $UNTC2$101.3MApr 10, 2026
ORION CONSTRUCTION, INC. · $ORN1$450.0MJun 13, 2025
Bristol Prime Contractors, LLC1$450.0MJun 13, 2025
RED POINT CONSTRUCTION, LLC1$450.0MJun 13, 2025
WELDIN CONSTRUCTION LLC1$450.0MJun 13, 2025
ASRC BUILDERS-CADDELL, LLC1$290.3MJul 29, 2025
BRICE BUILDERS, LLC1$27.4MOct 30, 2024
BRISTOL BUILDING CONSTRUCTORS LLC1$19.5MSep 26, 2025

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.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 8 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 Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) or Army, Dept of (Other) or Natl Guard since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) or Army, Dept of (Other) or Natl Guard 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
  • 32 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.

  • 2 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.

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