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One solicitation, laid out
This is a federal notice as Mandra presents it after a read. Nothing here is typed by hand: every field comes out of the solicitation documents, and the last panel is the model saying where it was not certain.
Illustrative example. The layout, the fields and the wording are exactly what you get. The notice itself is a stand-in until a real public solicitation is published here.
Section one
The notice, as the source published it
This much is free on every plan. It is what SAM.gov published, arranged.
- Title
- Replace rooftop HVAC units, outpatient clinic
- Agency
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Office
- Network Contracting Office (example)
- Solicitation number
- 36C000-00-B-0000 (example)
- Notice type
- Combined synopsis/solicitation
- Set-aside
- SDVOSB set-aside (competitive)
- Place of performance
- Example County, Texas
- Posted
- Example date
- Response deadline
- Example date
- NAICS
- 238220 — Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors
- PSC
- Z2AA — Repair or alteration of office buildings
Section two
Our read
Scope
Remove and replace packaged rooftop air-conditioning units serving the clinic, including curb adapters, electrical disconnects, controls tie-in to the existing building automation system, and start-up and commissioning. Work is phased so that no treatment area is without conditioned air during clinic hours.
- Contract type
- Specialty construction
- Estimated value
- $250,000 – $500,000 (magnitude stated in the notice)
- Self-performance requirement
- 25% of the cost of the work, implied by the contract type. Similarly situated subcontractors count toward it.
- Bonding
- Bid, performance and payment bonds required
- Wage determination
- Davis-Bacon, attached to the solicitation
- Submission method
- Email to the contracting officer, PDF only
- Page limit
- None stated
- Evaluation
- Lowest price technically acceptable, with past performance on similar work
- Contracting officer
- Named in the notice, with a telephone number
Every figure here is read out of the documents the contracting officer attached. Where the documents do not say, the field says unknown, and unknown is not a guess.
Section three
What this one requires of you
The list a reader would otherwise build by hand out of four attachments. Tick them off as you go. Mandra does not tick them for you and does not check that any of them is true.
- SF 1442 returned, signed
- SAM.gov registration active at the time of award
- SDVOSB certification current in SBA VetCert
- Bid bond at 20% of the bid, not to exceed $3,000,000
- Performance and payment bonds at 100% of the contract price
- Certificates of insurance naming the government as an additional insured
- Davis-Bacon wage rates applied, certified payroll weekly
- Past performance references on three similar projects in the last three years
- Offer submitted as a single PDF by the response deadline
Section four
Dates, in the order they bite
A mandatory site visit that passes with nobody there ends the bid, whatever the response deadline says. That is why it sits above it.
Site visit — mandatory
Example date, 10:00 local
Nobody assigned yet. A mandatory visit that passes with nobody there ends the bid, whatever the response deadline says.
Site visit RSVP cutoff
Example date
Names and driver licence numbers to the contracting officer for base access.
Questions cutoff
Example date
Anything unclear in the specification has to be asked before this.
Response deadline
Example date, 14:00 local
The offer, as one PDF, by email.
The deadlines panel with a mandatory site visit flagged and an RSVP cutoff three days out.
Alt text: Mandra's deadline panel showing a mandatory site visit above the response deadline.
Section five
What the model was unsure about
This panel is on every read. A tool that only shows you what it found is a tool you cannot check.
- One attachment is a scanned drawing set with no text layer. It was stored and listed but not read.
- The specification runs to 612 pages; 400 were read — the first 240 and the last 160 — and the gap is marked in the text.
- The notice does not state a page limit for the technical volume. The field says unknown rather than none.
- Two attachments are blank forms to be filled in and returned. They are listed on the Documents tab and were not read: a blank form states no requirement.
- The amendment posted after the original notice moved the site visit. The date above is the amended one.
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