Greenhouse Repairs and Electrical Work at Norman A. Berg Plant Materials Center, Beltsville, Maryland
Agriculture (all) · FPAC BUS CNTR-ACQ DIV
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 12FPC326Q0048 in this department, oldest first.
Next steps for this stage
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- Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
- Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
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What the notice says
The Norman A. Berg Plant Materials Center facilities need repairs and upgrades. The center requires a newelectrical hookup for a lab trailer and electrical upgrades for the two greenhouses (indicated as North Greenhouse and South Greenhouse) and the upper garage. Both greenhouses require foundational repairs and re-parging. One greenhouse requires a commercial grade greenhouse door replacement. SITE VISIT: Interested vendors can review the work site by attending the Site Visit on August 25, 2026, at 10:00am. Site Visit Location: 8791 Beaver Dam Road, Beltsville MD 20705 Site Visit POC: Dan Dus… (show all)
ty; Farm Manager at dan.dusty@usda.gov, 301-289-9776. Responses are due by 2:00 p.m. ET on September 16, 2026 by email to Bobby Copenny, II, Contract Specialist, at bobby.copenny@usda.gov. This is a request for quote (RFQ) solicited using the simplified acquisition procedures of FAR Part 13. Contractors are strongly urged to attend the site showing. The contractor shall furnish all labor, materials, equipment and supervision required to construct the project at outlined in statement of work and detailed in the specifications, drawings, and plans attached hereto. The magnitude of construction is between $25,000 and $100,000. This acquisition is 100% set-aside for small businesses. The applicable NAICS code is 238990.
Who won similar work
16 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Agriculture (all)), same product/service code (PSC) Z1AA.
Single-winner award sizes (16): middle half $41K to $552K, median $175K; range $8K to $3.7M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Creek Firelake JV 2 LLC | 1 | $3.7M | Sep 4, 2026 |
| Ashish Biswas Fresno CA 93711 USA | 1 | $978K | May 13, 2026 |
| MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC | 1 | $693K | Apr 13, 2026 |
| PLATINUM CONTRACTING SERVICES Boulder Creek CA 95006 USA | 1 | $672K | May 13, 2026 |
| MIWOK CONSTRUCTION LLC | 1 | $511K | Aug 4, 2026 |
| SILVERBACQ LLC | 1 | $457K | Sep 28, 2026 |
| Sierra North Construction Inc | 1 | $364K | Sep 3, 2026 |
| NAIR CONTRACTING GROUP, LLC | 1 | $206K | Jun 1, 2026 |
| KOALA ROOFING LLC | 1 | $143K | Apr 9, 2026 |
| RANDY R. ALLEN, INC | 1 | $98K | Sep 25, 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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.
- Sep 28, 2026SILVERBACQ LLC$457K127EAW26Q0053 - Kern River Ranger District HVACNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 24, 2026WINANT CONSTRUCTION LLC$8KNew High-Efficiency Natural Gas Furnace at Big Flats, NY Plant Materials CenterNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 4, 2026Mill Creek Firelake JV 2 LLC$3.7MElectrical Gear and Transformer Maintenance, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, Manhattan, KansasNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 3, 2026Sierra North Construction Inc$364K127EAW26Q0054 - ANF SO Storm Damage Facility RepairNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Aug 4, 2026MIWOK CONSTRUCTION LLC$511K127EAW26Q0038 - San Dimas Admin Roof ReplacementNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jul 31, 2026PSALM PRECISION SOLUTIONS LLC$36KGAOA LCIC Window Repair and Replacement Helena-Lewis & Clark National ForestNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jun 8, 2026FIVE HATS LLC$81KOuachita National Forest Misc Construction ProjectNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jun 1, 2026NAIR CONTRACTING GROUP, LLC$206KQuarantine Glass Replacement/Resealing (Fort Lauderdale, FL)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- May 29, 2026BECHEN ELECTRIC LLC$43KReplace Fluorescent Lights with LEDs (Brookings, SD)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- May 29, 2026CAS FSE JV II LLC$21KAsbestos Abatement & Install New Flooring (Athens, GA)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
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 Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) since 2024 (0 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) job
- No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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
- 132 rules from the department in the last 12 months
- 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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
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.