Vehicle Maintenance Shop, Kadena Air Base

PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE
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ARMY AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY VEHICLE MAINTENANCE SHOP
KADENA AIR BASE, OKINAWA, JAPAN
*UPDATE - 07 October 2026*
USACE is temporarily postponing the solicitation release for the Army Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Vehicle Maintenance Shop (VMS) project at Kadena Air Base to realign with budget requirements.
The projected issuance of this solicitation is now between January and March 2027.
The project site visit scheduled for 19 October 2026 is cancelled and will be rescheduled during the solicitation period.
We appreciate your continued interest and patience as we work to successfully execute this requirement.
Please continue to monitor SAM.gov for all future updates.
Introduction:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan District (POJ), Okinawa Area Office (OAO) is providing a Pre-Solicitation notice pursuant to Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Overhaul (RFO) 5.101(a) for an upcoming Request for Proposal (RFP). This notice is not a solicitation.
PROJECT INFORMATION:
Project Title: Army Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Vehicle Maintenance Shop (VMS), Kadena Air Base
Project Location: Okinawa, Japan
Product Service Code (PSC): Y1AZ – Construction of Other Administration Facilities and Service Buildings
NAICS Code:  236220 – Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
Estimated Project Magnitude: Between ¥15,000,000,000 and ¥30,000,000,000
Construction Type: Design-Bid-Build (DBB) Construction
Period of Performance: 1,260 calendar days
Projected Solicitation Issue: Estimated between January and March 2027
Projected Proposal Due Date: Estimated June 2027
Anticipated Contract Award: September 2027
Project Description: This project will provide a VMS (36,000 square feet) and associated facilities. The work includes demolition of existing structures. The primary facilities include the VMS, unit supply storage building, special foundations, organizational storage building, petroleum, oil and lubricant (POL) and hazardous waste storage buildings, wash platform, organizational vehicle parking, supply support storage shed, water storage tank, swing space, cybersecurity and antiterrorism/force protection (AT/FP) measures, building information systems, fire protection and alarm systems, intrusion detection system (IDS) installation, and energy monitoring control systems (EMCS) connection. Supporting facilities include site development, utilities and connections, storm drainage, paving, parking, walkways, lighting, information systems, landscaping and signage. Heating and air conditioning will be provided by a self-contained system. The project involves significant earthwork and sequential construction project management.
SOLICITATION INFORMATION:
• The Government anticipates an issuance of the RFP utilizing the Best Value Trade Off (BVTO) Source Selection as described in RFO 15.103-1.  Please see the attached draft Section 00 22 00 Instructions to Offerors Supplement (Evaluation Criteria), Drawings, and Specifications for further information. Documents are likely to change; reference only the final solicitation with attachments, drawings and specifications once they are issued in PIEE.
• All interested companies shall be actively registered in the SAM database in order to be eligible for award of Government contracts. Information on registration and annual confirmation requirements may be found at http://www.sam.gov. For a Joint Venture, the Joint Venture as an independent entity must be registered in SAM as such.
• All solicitation documents, drawings, and specifications will be posted on the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) with notice on System for Award Management (SAM) when issued. Interested vendors are responsible for monitoring PIEE/SAM websites for issuance of the solicitation and/or amendments.  It is recommended that contractors create their PIEE Solicitation Module account as soon as possible and not wait for the proposal due date, as access may take time. The following information is provided for reference.
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Step 1: Complete vendor registration on https://piee.eb.mil/.  Instructions for registration can be found through: https://piee.eb.mil/xhtml/unauth/web/homepage/vendorGettingStartedHelp.xhtml
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Step 2: Upload offer in the Solicitation Module through https://piee.eb.mil/ .  Instructions for uploading an offer can be found through: https://pieetraining.eb.mil/wbt/sol/documents/Proposal_Manager_Functions.pdf
• Firms which have not done business with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan Engineering District, are requested to visit the following website:  https://www.poj.usace.army.mil/Business-With-Us/ for general information.
• Only local sources will be considered under this solicitation.  Local sources are sources (e.g. corporations, partnerships, or Joint Ventures [For a Joint Venture, the Joint Venture as an independent entity must satisfy the local source requirements or, in the alternative, each member of the Joint Venture must individually satisfy the local source requirements]) that are physically located in Japan and authorized (i.e. licensed and registered) to perform construction in Japan. Specifically, a prospective offeror must be duly authorized to operate and conduct construction business in Japan and must fully comply with all applicable laws, decrees, labor standards, and regulations of Japan during the performance of the resulting contracts.
• In addition, offerors must possess a Japanese civil construction (doboku isshiki koji) license or Japanese architectural construction (kenchiku isshiki koji) license by the proposal due date and time. The U.S. Government will verify that the offeror has the license through the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) website at https://etsuran2.mlit.go.jp/TAKKEN. It is the responsibility of the offeror to ensure that it has the license (Japanese civil construction or Japanese architectural construction), and that it is accurately shown on the MLIT website, by the proposal due date and time.  Failure to comply with this requirement will be cause for rejection of your offer.
• The U.S. Government will not offer “United States Official Contractor” status under Article XIV of the US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to U.S. contractors normally resident in the United States; nor will the U.S. Government certify employees of such contractors as “Members of the Civilian Component” under Article I(b) of the SOFA.
Contracting Office Address:
Contracting Division, Japan District, US Army Corps of Engineers
Okinawa Area Office
Rm 116, Bldg 364
Camp Foster
Chatan-Cho, Okinawa, Japan
Zip Code: 904-0100