Sources SoughtPosted Sep 16, 2025·Original deadline passed (Sep 30). See latest amendment for current deadline.

DJ01--Zero Trust Application Realtime Protection (ZARP) (VA-25-00093376)

Veterans Affairs · TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION CENTER NJ (36C10B)

In plain words

Veterans Affairs is planning to buy "Zero Trust Application Realtime Protection (ZARP) (VA-25-00093376)". This is an early notice: it is not taking bids yet. The original due date (Sep 30, 2025) has passed; check the latest amendment for the current one. In the last 2 years, similar work went to 10 or more companies, usually for about $663K per award. An award could come any day: the usual time to award has passed.

Put together from the facts on this page; the details and sources are below.

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541519
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C10B25Q0429
Set-aside
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside (FAR 19.14)
PSC
DJ01
Place
Not stated
Contact
Michael Berberich (michael.berberich@va.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C10B25Q0429 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 8, 2025
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  • Jul 14, 2025
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  • Sep 16, 2025
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  • Sep 16, 2025 · this notice
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Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Expected award: Any day (median passed). Typical range Sep 30, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025; middle Sep 30, 2025.
Measured from 70 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of with NAICS 541519 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Jul 8, 2025).
Held to the response deadline (Sep 30, 2025): no award is forecast before responses are in.

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

Department of Veterans Affairs Request for Information (RFI) Zero Trust Application Runtime Protection (ZARP) This is a RFI Loopback only. DO NOT SUBMIT A QUOTE OR A RESPONSE. This notice is posted as an amendment to the original RFI issued on 7/8/2025, for the purpose of informing industry of the outcome of the subject requirement. No response is required or requested; this posting is a notice to industry only. The solicitation for the subject requirement was released on NASA SEWP under 36C10B25Q0516 as an SDVOSB set-aside on 8/21/2025.

Who won similar work

165 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION CENTER NJ (36C10B)), same NAICS 541519.

Single-winner award sizes (165): middle half $250K to $2.3M, median $663K; range $3K to $217.5M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
V3GATE, LLC26$308.2MOct 22, 2026
Alvarez LLC17$33.1MOct 20, 2026
THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC16$32.1MOct 19, 2026
REDHAWK IT SOLUTIONS LLC14$16.5MSep 23, 2026
MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC12$9.9MOct 8, 2026
FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.7$7.3MMay 13, 2026
ARCHITECHTURE SOLUTIONS LLC6$3.9MOct 13, 2026
METGREEN SOLUTIONS INC5$162.1MSep 24, 2026
GREENBRIER GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS INC5$22.4MSep 23, 2026
COLOSSAL CONTRACTING LLC4$42.3MMay 18, 2026

Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Notices whose amount is a placeholder such as $999,999,999 are not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.

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.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 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, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.

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