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November 2, 2026
GSA is building a national design bench to match its national construction bench
Six weeks after asking industry how to build a nationwide construction IDIQ, GSA PBS asked the same question about design. Multiple awards, a five-year base and a five-year option, task orders above $350,000, anywhere in the United States and its territories. The whole response is five pages.
October 26, 2026
GSA PBS moved its New York and New Jersey construction IDIQ to November 4, the same hour its D.C. metro IDIQ closes, and one contracting office now takes both
GSA PBS issued Amendment 0002 to the New York and New Jersey multiple award IDIQ on October 21 and extended proposals from October 28 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern on November 4. That is the hour the D.C. metro area multiple award IDIQ has been due since October 14. The two solicitations cover different geography but share a contracting office, a NAICS code, a $45,000,000 size standard and a total small business set-aside, and a week ago they were seven days apart. In the same week PBS Centralized Acquisition Services IDV West opened market research on a new multiple award construction IDIQ for Alaska.
October 19, 2026
VA has given industry 15 days of notice on a $7.5 billion nationwide construction MATOC, and the RFP is anticipated on or about October 30
VA's Office of Facilities Acquisition Management posted a 15-day presolicitation on October 14 for a nationwide design-build and construction MATOC carrying $7,500,000,000 of capacity over one base year and four options, under NAICS 236220 with a $45 million size standard, with an unrestricted component and an SDVOSB component. The notice says the solicitation is anticipated on or about October 30 and supersedes the earlier draft. In the same week GSA PBS moved its D.C. metro area IDIQ deadline from October 29 to November 4, leaving three dates inside eight days.
October 12, 2026
GSA has two $500 million small business construction IDIQs closing a day apart, and on paper they are nearly the same contract
Two GSA PBS total small business construction IDIQ solicitations close 24 hours apart at the end of October, and they are built to the same pattern: a $500 million ceiling across all awards over five years, no per-contract ceiling, one base year and four options, NAICS 236220 with a $45 million size standard, and awards made on highest technically rated with a fair and reasonable price. New York and New Jersey closes October 28 with about 25 awards across four zones; the D.C. metro area closes October 29 with about 18.
October 5, 2026
NAVFAC Northwest closed $9 billion and opened a $15 billion ceiling on September 30
NAVFAC Northwest awarded its $9 billion VENTI MACC to 16 firms on September 30, then issued an unrestricted $15 billion MACC for the Puget Sound dry dock. Proposals are due December 1, and in-person conference registration closes October 12.
September 28, 2026
GSA PBS put its D.C. construction vehicle on the street, and reserved two thirds of the seats
GSA PBS issued the solicitation for its $500M D.C. Metro Area construction IDIQ: about 18 seats, 12 of them reserved for 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB and SDVOSB firms. What to do before October 29.
September 21, 2026
GSA wants 40 to 50 national construction seats, scored zone by zone
GSA PBS asked industry how to build a national construction IDIQ: seven zones, a self-scoring scorecard, and one profit rate that would follow you for up to ten years. What to decide before October 5.
September 16, 2026
Fourteen construction jobs are moving outside the FAR
Other transaction authority is replacing the FAR contract on a growing list of military construction projects. What that changes for builders, and what to send before the response dates.
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