PRESOLICITATION Small Business Construction IDIQ Washington, DC Metropolitan Region

****AMENDMENT 001 - RFP due date has been extended until October 15, 2026 at 3:00PM ET  see Attachments****

The Smithsonian Institution (“Smithsonian”) is providing this Notice of a Pending Solicitation for IDIQ Contracts for Construction Services in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Region.

Administrative Information: 

The Smithsonian Institution is the steward for many of the Nation’s most valued artifacts, housed in nearly 12 million square feet of facilities. The Institution’s 21 museums, The National Zoological Park, and nine research centers are in nine states, The District of Columbia, and two countries. In addition to these facilities/campuses, the Institution also has several collection management and storage facilities throughout the United States and the country of Panama. Awardees under this solicitation will support construction needs in our facilities in the Washington DC area and surrounding facilities such as the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, VA and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD. More information is available at www.si.edu.

The Smithsonian Institution seeks interested Small Business contractors to establish multiple Small Business Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contracts with construction firms to provide construction services between $1 million to $8 million per project. The NAICS code is 236220 for Commercial and Institutional Building Construction. This procurement has been established as a Small Business Set Aside and only Small Businesses shall be considered by the Smithsonian Institution. The information you provide in the Qualification Statement (“Statement”) will be the basis for the evaluation of your Company. The prequalification of contractors is a highly competitive process.

The Smithsonian Institution will select multiple construction firms for this IDIQ based on past performance, expected team make-up, experience and other factors. Pricing will be solicited for single projects from this contract “pool” and award based on pricing, company availability and other factors. All projects will be coordinated, managed and their performance supervised by this office.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. The full solicitation, request for proposal and supporting documents will be released on or about June 2026; however, there is no guarantee or implication of a guarantee this will be solicited. Responses will be due within (30) days of release. Electronic copies will be uploaded to SAM.gov site. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response.