Opportunity
SAM #W911KB27RA009
Construction of a Combat Rescue Helicopter Simulator Facility at JBER, Alaska
Buyer
W2SN ENDIST Alaska
Posted
October 05, 2026
Respond By
October 23, 2026
Identifier
W911KB27RA009
NAICS
236220
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking construction of a Combat Rescue Helicopter simulator facility at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. - Government buyer: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District (W2SN ENDIST Alaska). - Project: Construct an approximately 8,202-square-foot Combat Rescue Helicopter Operational Flight Trainer facility to support an HH-60W helicopter simulator. - Facility spaces: Simulator, briefing and debriefing, mission planning, instructor, administrative, building support, and restroom areas. - Construction scope: Site clearing, utility relocation, grading, foundations, building construction, and connections to existing base-wide systems. - Notable requirements: The simulator bay and associated areas must meet collateral secret open-storage criteria. The facility also requires a large overhead door, an interior overhead crane, and cold-weather construction features. - Contract context: Estimated project value is $17 million to $22 million, with an approximately 730-calendar-day performance period. - OEMs and vendors: No OEMs, commercial vendors, or product part numbers are identified; this is a construction requirement.
Description
This is a pre-solicitation notice for a 100% Small Business Set Aside Request for Proposals (RFP) to construct a Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) facility utilizing conventional design and construction methods to accommodate the mission of the facility. The work includes construction of a new, properly sited, single floor, 8,202 square foot Combat Rescue Helicopter Simulator Facility that is fully configured. The new building will support the simulator for the HH-60W helicopter, its supporting equipment, briefing/debriefing room, mission planning room, instructors' office, administrative office, building support rooms, and toilet facilities. The facility will be slab on grade foundation with cold weather-insulated, shallow continuous strip footings, and a thickened cold weather-insulated mat foundation will be located directly below the simulator equipment. The exterior shell of the Simulator Bay will have masonry veneer and metal panel on reinforced concrete masonry units (CMU). The one-story administration areas will be constructed of masonry veneer and metal panel on metal studs. The roof will be low slope standing seam structural metal roofing, with snow guards to provide mitigation of sliding snow. The simulator bay and associated areas will be constructed to collateral secret open storage criteria. There will be a large overhead door into the simulator bay which will also feature an interior overhead crane to move equipment. The work also includes the required site clearing, relocation of utilities, grade changes, connecting the new building systems into the existing base-wide systems, and incidental related work.
The estimated dollar magnitude of this project is anticipated between $17,000,000 and $22,000,000. The performance period will be approximately 730 calendar days.
The procurement will be conducted using source selection procedures and the award will be based on best value tradeoff source selection procedures, considering the price and non-price factors cited in this announcement and the solicitation.
All Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) (https://www.sam.gov/SAM/). Joint ventures must be registered in SAM as the joint venture. Offerors are advised to begin this process when they prepare their proposal in order to ensure this registration is in place should they be selected for the award. Lack of registration in the SAM database will make an Offeror ineligible for award.
Anticipated NTP: 1 March 2027 with a 730 calendar-day period of performance; the Davis Bacon Act will apply.
(1) PROJECT INFORMATION: To onstruct a Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) facility utilizing conventional design and construction methods to accommodate the mission of the facility.
(2) SELECTION CRITERIA: Evaluation criteria to be listed in the solicitation are anticipated to be:
Factor 1 – Past Performance (Confidence Assessment)
Factor 2 – Technical Approach
Factor 3 – Project Execution Concept/Schedule
Factor 4 – Price
(3) OBTAINING THE SOLICITATION: The solicitation for this project will be provided in electronic format only and is currently scheduled to be available for download on or about 23 October 2026 at the PIEE Solicitation Module website at https://piee.eb.mil/sol/xhtml/unauth/index.xhtml via Solicitation number (W911KB27RA009). Any future amendments to the solicitation will also be available for download from this website. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the agency. All notifications of changes to this solicitation shall be made through the internet only. It is the Offeror’s responsibility to check for any posted changes to this solicitation.
NOTE: Electronic proposal submissions will only be accepted via the PIEE Solicitation Module website at: https://piee.eb.mil/sol/xhtml/unauth/index.xhtml. Search via Solicitation Number Search W911K27RA009. IN ORDER TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL, VENDORS MUST REGISTER IN THE PIEE SYSTEM AND MUST HAVE A PROPOSAL MANAGER ROLE ESTABLISHED. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING PROPOSAL MANAGER, PROPOSAL MANAGER FUNCTIONS AND POSTING OFFERS CAN BE FOUD AT https//pieetraining.eb.mil/wbt/xhtml/wbt/sol/solicitation/proposals.xhtml.