The Base Bid @TheBaseBid

More than half the week closes Thursday and Friday. Settle those two days by Tuesday. Counts from the SAM.gov daily Contract Opportunities extract, pulled today, deduplicated to the newest posting per solicitation. Every deadline, free: thebasebid.com/?utm_source=x&…

Fri 30 Oct, 5pm ET: Keating Courthouse Hardening Phase II, Rochester NY. GSA PBS Project Delivery East Branch C, SDVOSB. Amendment 4 moved the proposal date from 16 Oct to 30 Oct. The only PBS solicitation closing this week. 47PC5326R0021

Week Ahead Watch. 168 federal construction and A/E deadlines at DoW, VA and GSA PBS land between tomorrow and Sunday. Only 71 of them are live buys you can submit against. The other 97 are market research or advance notice.

The check: find the site visit date in the notice body before you decide whether to bid, not in the attachments you open last. Notice 36C24826R0124 on SAM.gov: sam.gov/workspace/cont…

And any failure to take those steps "will not relieve the Contractor from responsibility for estimating properly the difficulty and cost of successfully performing the work." FAR 52.236-3(a). FAC 2026-01.

The site visit was October 7. Offers are due October 28. VA Network Contracting Office 8 set one organized site visit for a cardiology expansion in Gainesville, Florida. Solicitation 36C24826R0124.

Read today: FAR 14.301, 14.405 and 52.214-3 under FAC 2026-01, effective March 13, 2026. SF 1442 is Rev. 12/2022. acquisition.gov/far/52.214-3 Estimators: who owns the amendment log on your bids?

The check, before you submit: 1. Pull the notice on SAM and count the amendments against your file. 2. SF 1442 block 2 says whether this is a Sealed Bid (IFB) or Negotiated (RFP). 3. Put every amendment number and date in SF 1442 block 19, or sign and return each one.

The Five-Minute Check: you priced the amendment. Did you acknowledge it? On a sealed bid construction job, that one blank box decides whether your bid gets evaluated or set aside as nonresponsive.

3. Medical Repair and Renewal (MRR) Korea. USACE Huntsville Center. Solicitation W912DY26RA093. Medical facility repair and renovation at government medical facilities for DHA. Offers Nov 10, 2:00 p.m. CT. sam.gov/opp/20f7189326… Read all three. Follow The Base Bid.

2. Alaska Construction IDIQ. GSA Public Buildings Service, Centralized Acquisition Services IDV West. Sources sought 20261019, Anchorage. NAICS 236220. GSA intends to award a multiple contractor IDIQ. Responses Nov 19, 1:00 p.m. PT. sam.gov/opp/dbfcde26fd…

Saturday Signal Roundup. Three federal construction notices opened this week: the Rockies, Alaska and Korea. Two of the three are sources sought, so the next move is a questionnaire, not a price. Deadlines Nov 10, 19 and 20.