Bidding context for Department of Labor
Activity is light right now: 2 open set-aside notices for Department of Labor in the last 7 days. Use quiet weeks to update your SAM profile, capability statement and saved searches so you are ready when the next cluster posts.
Set-aside mix is led by Small Business (about 50%), with meaningful secondary demand across Small Business (1), 8(a) (1). Plan certifications and teaming against more than one program if you want to cover most of this list.
Most of the open notices tied to work posted by Department of Labor are total small business set-asides. That means any firm that is small under the notice's NAICS size standard and active in SAM.gov can compete; no socioeconomic certification is required. Confirm your size against the SBA table of size standards for the exact code on each notice before you price a bid.
Construction-heavy demand around this Department of Labor slice usually means bonding, site visits and wage determinations matter as much as price. Read the solicitation for bid bonds, performance bonds and any Davis-Bacon or Service Contract Act clauses, and confirm the place of performance against your crew's reach before you start estimating.
Places of performance are distributed, led by Utah (1) and Louisiana (1). Multi-state coverage or proven local partners will decide how many of these notices you can realistically pursue.
Industry demand concentrates in 建筑业 / 236220 (about 50% of notices); other active codes include 561210 (1). Check the SBA size standard for that exact code before you represent as small.
Contracting offices appearing in the current window include Dol - Jcas - Aec. Office-level patterns matter: the same agency can set aside construction in one region and buy IT unrestricted in another.
Recent notice titles in this slice include “Clearfield Job Corps Center Design-Build (D-B) Roof & HVAC Replacement”; “Carville Job Corps Center Caretaker Services”. Titles change daily with the SAM.gov extract; always open the official link before bidding.
None of the current notices for Department of Labor are flagged as closing within the next few days on this build. Still check each notice's response deadline on SAM.gov; amendments can move dates after our morning extract.
Agency pages here only include notices that SAM.gov marked with a small business set-aside in the public extract. Unrestricted and other-than-small awards are out of scope for SetAside Signal by design.
Practical next steps
- Confirm your SAM.gov registration is active and that your NAICS, size and socioeconomic representations match the notices you want.
- Filter this list to set-aside types you already qualify for, then open the official SAM.gov link for each survivor.
- Answer sources sought and RFIs from the same offices even when you are not ready to bid; that market research supports the FAR 19.502-2 rule of two.
- Use SBA SUBNet and agency subcontracting directories when the prime work is larger than your past performance supports.
- Subscribe to the free SetAside Signal digest so new notices for Department of Labor arrive by email without another paid tool.