D.C. Metro Area Multiple Award Indefinite Quantity Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) Contract for Construction Services
Updated
Presolicitation from the Public Buildings Service, for work in Washington, District of Columbia.
| Solicitation number | 47PH5226R0003 |
|---|---|
| Agency | Public Buildings Service |
| Office | Pbs Centralized Acquisition Services Idv - East |
| Notice type | Presolicitation |
| Set-aside | Small business |
| Trade (NAICS) | Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (236220) |
| Product or service code | Z2AA |
| Place of performance | Washington, District of Columbia |
| Posted | Sep 10, 2026 |
| Response deadline | Not stated |
Federal prevailing wage rates for this place: District of Columbia Davis-Bacon and SCA wage determinations.
Description
Set-Aside: The Procurement will be a Total Small Business Set-Aside with Reserves. Reserves will be allocated for 8(a), HUBZone, Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). More detailed information regarding the Reserves will be released with the Solicitation.
Small Business Size Standard: $45M This is a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract that provides for an indefinite quantity of supplies or services during a fixed period. The GSA intends to award multiple contracts for General Construction Services. After award of the IDIQ all awardees will be provided fair opportunity in accordance with FAR 16.507-2 for discrete construction projects where task order will be issued based on selection criteria established at the ordering level, unless an exemption exists in accordance with FAR 16.507-6.
The General Contractor (GC) shall serve as the single point of responsibility and must supervise, administer, coordinate, perform, and contract all management, labor, materials, equipment, and construction activities required to successfully execute each assigned project. Construction services will be required to be performed at federally owned and leased locations. The operational scope encompasses comprehensive general construction, repair, alteration, and modernization services for existing real property facilities.
The General Contractor (GC) shall supervise, administer, perform, and contract all construction activities required to complete a project. Construction services include, but are not limited to office construction and/or renovations/repairs, office space renovations, MEP (Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing) repairs/modifications/replacement, fire sprinkler systems repairs/modification/replacement, sitework, exterior construction repair and alterations (including facades and roofs), demolition (including abatement of hazardous materials), elevator modernizations, work in technically sensitive environments like laboratories, SCIF’s etc., work in high-security data centers and critical infrastructure control systems, construction work in high security buildings, as well as any other general construction activities.
The scope will include design-build services. The GC may be required to utilize the following delivery methods to deliver projects for the GSA:
- Design/Bid/Build (DBB) Traditional
- Design/Build (D/B) The primary geography will cover: -All of Washington, D.C. -Virginia: Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudon County, Independent Cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church -Maryland: Montgomery County, Prince George's County The Government may expand the geography via modification.
Those parameters will be detailed in the soliictation. The Maximum Ordering Limit (MOL) for this contract vehicle is $500,000,000.00. Meaning the cumulative total for all task orders awarded to all contractors over the life of the contract (5 Years) is not anticipated to exceed $500,000,000.00.
There is no MOL per contractor or per performance period. The general task order range will be between $350,000.00 and $10,000,000.00. The Government may issue task orders outside that range, but Contractors are not obligated to fulfill orders outside that range.
There will be a base period of one (1) year, and there will be four (4) option periods of one-year each, for a total possible performance period of five (5) years. The government intends to award approximately eighteen (18) contracts. However, the Government reserves the right to make more, fewer, or no awards, depending on the results of the evaluation, availability of funding, and the Government’s needs.
Award Methodology This solicitation will be executed pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.103-3 (RFO-2025-15), Highest technically rated with a fair and reasonable price approach. Pursuant to FAR Clause 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors-Competitive Acquisition, and FAR 15.203 (RFO-2025-15), the Government intends to evaluate proposals and make competitive awards without negotiations with offerors although it reserves the right to negotiate should it be determined to be necessary.
Competitive proposals shall be evaluated and assessed based on the factors specified in this solicitation. For this solicitation, all evaluation factors other than cost or price, when combined, are significantly more important than price. The Technical Evaluation Factors will be: Prior Experience Past Performance Evidence of Bonding Capacity: Go/No Go.
(Minimum- $10M per project) Prior Experience is relatively more important than Past Performance. More detailed information regarding the technical factors and award methodology will be included in the solicitation. Awards are anticipated to be made in February of 2027.
Pre-Proposal Conference: A virtual pre-proposal conference is expected to be held approximately 10 days from the issue date of the solicitation. Additional details on the pre-proposal conference will be provided with the solicitation when released. All qualified small businesses are highly encouraged to attend.
The instructions and necessary details about the conference will be provided with the solicitation. Interested Parties/How to Offer: The Solicitation will only be available electronically. The solicitation is expected to be available on or about Friday, September 25, 2026.
The solicitation can only be obtained by accessing SAM.gov. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation and for monitoring the website for possible amendments and/or additional information. Potential offerors must be registered in SAM.gov.
More detailed information will be released with the solicitation. All responsible and qualified small businesses may submit a proposal in response to the solicitation, and the proposal will be considered by the agency. Inquiries concerning the requirement should be directed to the following email address: jay.oxenberg@gsa
The description continues in the official notice.
Contracting contact
- Jay Oxenberg · [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.
Notice history
- Oct 14, 2026: Solicitation Due Nov 4, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC-5)
- Oct 9, 2026: Solicitation Due Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC-4)
- Oct 8, 2026: Solicitation Due Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC-4)
- Oct 6, 2026: Solicitation Due Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC-4)
- Oct 1, 2026: Solicitation Due Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC-4)
- Sep 30, 2026: Solicitation Due Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC-4)
- Sep 30, 2026: Solicitation Due Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC-4)
- Sep 25, 2026: Presolicitation Due Oct 29, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC-4)
Companies that win this kind of work
Federal contractors paid for commercial and institutional building construction work, who also hold GSA contracts (last 12 months): possible competitors, or partners to team with.
- BL Harbert International LLC $1.0 billion in this trade
- Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, The $1.0 billion in this trade
- Clark Construction Group LLC $958.0 million in this trade
- Hensel Phelps Construction Co $950.0 million in this trade
- M. A. Mortenson Company $899.6 million in this trade
About the buyer
The General Services Administration awarded $28.7 billion in contracts in the last 12 months; its biggest suppliers were Booz Allen Hamilton Inc, Science Applications International Corporation and CACI, Inc. - Federal. See what GSA 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 300 open government contract opportunities in this trade (NAICS 236220), 122 posted in the last 7 days; 63% are set aside for small businesses. The agencies buying the most are Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of the Army and Department of the Navy. Most of the work with a stated place is in New York, California and North Carolina. A notice in this trade gives a median of 21 days from posting to deadline.
All open commercial and institutional building construction contracts
Coming up in this trade
Planned contracts from the agencies' procurement forecasts, often months before a solicitation. Plans can change.
Recent awards in this trade
- JNB Services LLC $667,756 · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · Nov 4, 2026
- Jetts' Specialty Contracting LLC $10.2 million · Department of Veterans Affairs · Nov 4, 2026
- Huot Construction And Services, Inc. $308,540 · Departmental Offices · Nov 3, 2026
- GC Joint Venture ESSEX $3.9 million · Department of Veterans Affairs · Oct 30, 2026
- Butt Construction Company, Incorporated $23.4 million · Department of the Army · Oct 30, 2026
From the award notices agencies publish.