Sources SoughtPosted Sep 30, 2026·Responses due Nov 2, 2026

FAA Safety Culture Assessment

FAA · 693KA9 CONTRACTING FOR SERVICES

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541612
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
693KA9-27-FAA_Safety_Culture_Assessment
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
Washington, DC, USA
Contact
FAA AAQ 460 Contracting Office (9-AFN-AWA-AAQ460-Contracting-Team@faa.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 693KA9-27-FAA_Safety_Culture_Assessment in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 30, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (1 found; 10 needed).

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

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is conducting market research to identify capable businesses (Large, Small, Service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and 8(a) certified firms) to perform a multi-phase Safety Culture Assessment. The contractor will evaluate organizational culture factors affecting FAA�s safety management and oversight capabilities through four key activities: administering an agency-wide climate survey with secure data handling, conducting an environmental scan of existing data and best practices, performing qualitative site visits at 3 to 5 pilot locations, and… (show all)

coordinating project requirements with leadership. The responses to this RFI will help determine the acquisition strategy and whether adequate competition exists to set-aside the competition among small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses or Socially & Economically Disadvantage Business (SEDB/8(a)) certified firms. The acquisition strategy for the procurement has not been determined at this time; however, either an unrestricted competition or a set-aside will be chosen depending on the responses to this Market Survey. This is not a Screening Information Request or Request for Proposals of any kind. The FAA is not seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals. The FAA will not pay for any information received or costs incurred in preparing the response to the market survey. Any costs associated with the market survey submittal is solely at the interested vendor's expense. The FAA may request that one, some, all, or none of the respondents to this Market Survey provide additional information. No evaluation of vendors will occur based on this additional information and vendor participation in any informational session is not a promise for future business with the FAA. Any information provided under this market survey is for informational purposes only. Any proprietary information submitted must be explicitly and conspicuously marked by the respondent as, proprietary. If appropriately marked, such information will not be released to the public by the FAA, except as required under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or any other applicable law, regulation and/or policy. The Government may transfer documents provided by a respondent to any department or agency within the Executive Branch if the information relates to matters within the organization's jurisdiction. Questions & Clarifications may be sent no later than 10 business days after the posting of this announcement: No lather than 14 October 2026. Detailed submission requirements can be found in the attached Sources Sought/Request for Information document.

Who won similar work

125 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (FAA), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

Single-winner award sizes (125): middle half $375K to $10.3M, median $1.2M; range $19K to $1.4B.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ADB SAFEGATE AMERICAS LLC3$24.7MJun 5, 2025
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION · $SAIC · $7.4B2$752.8MJul 10, 2025
GUARDIAN CONSTRUCTION, INC.2$11.1MAug 24, 2026
FREQUENTIS USA, INC2$8.6MDec 16, 2025
UNIQUE FACILITY RESOURCES INC2$8.1MSep 14, 2026
Frontgrade Technologies Inc.2$4.9MSep 8, 2026
Quarterwave Corp.2$1.5MJun 22, 2026
X-CLEAN CORP2$1.2MAug 18, 2025
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL INC.2$826KNov 8, 2024
ALPHA CONTRACTORS GROUP INC2$568KSep 28, 2026

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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Investor context
  • $SAIC reported $7.4B revenue in FY2026. The median single-winner award in these 125 past awards, $1.2M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K

One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.

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 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) since 2024 (10 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) job
  • $58K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • 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.

  • 2 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 982 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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 1 insider buys and 0 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.