Pre-solicitationPosted Jul 30, 2025·Responses due Aug 18, 2025

DA10--VR&E Testing Kits VARO 318

Veterans Affairs · VETERANS BENEFITS ADMIN (36C10D)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
518210
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C10D25Q0146
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
DA10
Place
Washington, DC, USA
Contact
Edward D Bradford (edward.bradford@va.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C10D25Q0146 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 30, 2025 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
  • Jul 30, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 6, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 11, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Sep 17, 2025
    Award Notice
    EDITS LLC · $44K
    Open

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

This is a Pre-Solicitation Notice synopsizing an upcoming competitive solicitation that satisfies the requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 5.2, more specifically FAR 5.204, FAR 5.201, FAR 5.207, and FAR 5.203, as well as FAR 5.101. A Request for Quotation (RFQ) solicitation will be posted on or about Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The Winston Salem, North Carolina, Veterans Affairs Regional Office (VARO) in accordance with the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) has a requirement for a Firm-Fixed-Price Purchase Order to provide services through an online portal that acces… (show all)

ses the requisite Aptitude, Interest, and Ability Assessments. Said Assessments will measure Veterans aptitudes, interests, and abilities for career pathways as well as educational opportunities to be utilized by the Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) counselors. Contractor shall furnish separate online portals for the Veterans to take the online assessments and for the VR&E counselors to set testing parameters along with obtaining the assessment reports. Online portals shall be accessible for twenty-four (24) hours a day. Furthermore, the online portals shall run on any computer with internet access yet require no software installation. The period of performance for this project will be one (1) year from the date of award. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this procurement is 518210 [Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services] and the small business size standard is $40 million. The solicitation will be issued as an RFQ under FAR Part 13. This project will be a total set-aside for Small Businesses in accordance with FAR 19.502-2(a) and FAR 19.203(b). All small businesses must be verified in the Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business System (SBS) via https://search.certifications.sba.gov/ at the time of quotation submission, at the time of award, and for the duration of performance of the resultant Purchase Order. Any Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) or Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) concerns must be verified in the SBA Veteran Small Business Certification (VetCert) via https://search.certifications.sba.gov/ at the time of quotation submission, at the time of award, and for the duration of performance of the resultant Purchase Order. All businesses must be registered to confirm eligibility in the System for Award Management (SAM). Each entity must represent the status as a small business concern in SAM.gov. To register in the SAM database, visit https://www.sam.gov. All relevant solicitation documents, including the Statement of Work, may be accessed and downloaded on the solicitation issuance date by conducting a search for Solicitation Number 36C10D25Q0146 under Contract Opportunities on https://www.sam.gov. Any Amendments to the RFQ solicitation will also be posted under Contract Opportunities on SAM.

Who won similar work

11 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same NAICS 518210.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. · $AXON2$4.0MFeb 23, 2026
LYNCH CONSULTANTS, LLC1$18.7MSep 18, 2025
EM KEY SOLUTIONS INC1$5.7MAug 13, 2026
TELEVEDA SYSTEMS, INC.1$5.4MApr 24, 2025
VEROS REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS, LLC1$1.8MJan 20, 2026
HEALTHINFONET NEW GLOUCESTER 042601$1.1MApr 6, 2025
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION NEW YORK 100381$50KMar 22, 2026
DESIGN BUILD CONSORTIUM, LLC1$36KJan 2, 2026
MIRION TECHNOLOGIES (GDS), INC.1$19KJul 2, 2025
BLUE NOSE IT SOLUTIONS, INC1$8KFeb 21, 2025

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (2 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
  • $5K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 25 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 6 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.