AXQD242790 Allied Support Sunshades Utility Infrastructure

Updated Nov 14, 2026

Presolicitation from the Department of the Army.

Description

Invitation for Bids (IFB) Set-Aside for Small Businesses NAICS Code: 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. The Massachusetts National Guard intends to issue an invitation for bids to award a single firm fixed-price contract for services, non-personal, to provide all plant, labor, transportation, materials, tools, equipment, appliances and supervision necessary for the construction establish a secure, redundant underground utility corridor (480V power and OSP fiber) to two tie-in points.

Work includes approx. 800 LF of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) under airfield pavements at min 8FT depth; primary circuit tie-in splicing into 22.9KV base loop in manhole 110 (EMH 110) with IEEE 386 200A elbows; installation of one pad-mounted transformer (22.9KV prim to 480Y/277V sec, 250KVA) on frost-protected concrete pad; backup system with 400A NEMA 3R manual transfer switch and cannon plug receptacle; and NEMA 3R/4X COMM cabinet with fiber patch panels.

Also contains airfield pavement restoration, remarking per UFC 3-260-04, PE-stamped load study, and quality level B sue utility scan at 104 FW, Barnes ANGB, Westfield, MA 01085.The contract duration will be 90 calendar days after notice to proceed to include inspection and punch list. This project is set aside 100% for small business. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 236220, with a small business size standard of $45,000,000.

The magnitude of construction is between $250,000 AND $500,000.The tentative date for issuing the solicitation is within the next 30 days (on-or-about December 2026). The tentative date for the pre-bid conference is approximately two weeks following solicitation issuance, time and location to be provided in the solicitation. Interested contractors are encouraged to attend and shall follow conference registration and base access requirements shown in the solicitation.

A site visit will follow the pre-bid conference. All questions for the pre-bid conference must be submitted by the deadline specified in the solicitation. The bid opening date is tentatively planned for approximately 30 days following the issuance of the solicitation.

Actual dates and times will be identified in the solicitation. The solicitation and associated information will be available only from the Contract Opportunities page at SAM.gov. Your attention is directed to FAR clause 52.219-14(e)(3) (DEVIATION 2021-O0008), LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING, which states: -By submission of an offer and execution of a contract, the Offeror/Contractor agrees in performance of the contract for General construction, it will not pay more than 85 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance, excluding the cost of materials, to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities.

Any work that a similarly situated entity further subcontracts will count towards the prime contractors 85 percent subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded-. In accordance with RFO FAR 36.101-4, the following information is provided:(a) There are no agency-specific policies or procedures that apply to the definitization of equitable adjustments for change orders under construction contracts.(b) No data is available regarding the timely definitization of equitable adjustments for change orders under construction contracts.

DISCLAIMER: The official plans and specifications are located on the official government webpage and the Government is not liable for information furnished by any other source. Amendments, if/when issued, will be posted to Contract Opportunities for electronic downloading. This will normally be the only method of distributing amendments prior to closing; therefore, it is the offerors responsibility to check the website periodically for any amendments to the solicitation.

Websites are occasionally inaccessible for various reasons. The Government is not responsible for any loss of Internet connectivity or for an offerors inability to access the documents posted on the referenced web pages. The Government will not issue paper copies.

Contracting contact

• Kristen Phipps · [email protected]

As published on the official notice. Ask questions in writing and before any questions deadline the notice sets.

Is your business small enough?

For NAICS 236220, a business counts as small if it has no more than $45.0 million in average annual receipts (SBA size standard). This notice is set aside, so only businesses under that size, or in the named program, can bid. SBA table, current as of Oct 15, 2026.

Companies that win this kind of work

Federal contractors paid for commercial and institutional building construction work, who also hold Army contracts (last 12 months): possible competitors, or partners to team with.

• Barnard Construction Company, Incorporated $4.8 billion in this trade
• Southwest Valley Constructors Co $2.8 billion in this trade
• BL Harbert International LLC $1.0 billion in this trade
• Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, The $1.0 billion in this trade
• Walsh Federal LLC $964.4 million in this trade

About the buyer

The Department of the Army awarded $123.6 billion in contracts in the last 12 months; its biggest suppliers were Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company and Raytheon Company. See what Army is buying now.

Who can bid: Small Business set-aside

Total and partial small business set-asides are open to any business under the SBA size standard for the notice's NAICS code.

All open Small Business set-asides.

Commercial and Institutional Building Construction contracts right now

There are 301 open government contract opportunities in this trade (NAICS 236220), 125 posted in the last 7 days; 65% are set aside for small businesses. The agencies buying the most are Department of the Army, Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of the Navy. Most of the work with a stated place is in California, North Carolina and District of Columbia. A notice in this trade gives a median of 22 days from posting to deadline.

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Coming up in this trade

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Recent awards in this trade

• E Corp $205,904 · Departmental Offices · Nov 12, 2026
• TBG EE JV II, LLC $225.0 million · Department of the Army · Nov 10, 2026
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• Sgtr RJO JV, LLC $225.0 million · Department of the Army · Nov 10, 2026
• MNS PRO Companies, Inc. $225.0 million · Department of the Army · Nov 10, 2026

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