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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.

  1. 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.

  2. Site visit RSVP cutoff

    Example date

    Names and driver licence numbers to the contracting officer for base access.

  3. Questions cutoff

    Example date

    Anything unclear in the specification has to be asked before this.

  4. Response deadline

    Example date, 14:00 local

    The offer, as one PDF, by email.

Urgency order, not date order.

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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