Special NoticePosted Apr 10, 2026·Responses due Apr 11, 2026

Intent to Sole Source

Veterans Affairs · VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334516
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26326P0374
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
6630
Place
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Contact
Joey Bloomer (joseph.bloomer@va.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26326P0374 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Apr 10, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Apr 10, 2026
    Award Notice
    BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY · $68K
    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 Notice of Intent is provided to advise that the Government intends to solicit and negotiate a sole source, Firm Fixed Price contract with option periods with only one source, BD Bioscience, to provide Flow Cytometer Wash Assistants for the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. This contract action is for supplies for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate a Sole Source award under the authority of FAR 13.106-1. This notice of intent to award a sole source contract is not a request for competitive proposals. However, in accordance with FAR 5.207 (c) (16) (ii), all responsible sourc… (show all)

es that feel they can meet the Government�s requirements detailed above may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include: the System for Award Management (SAM) Unique Entity ID (UEI), and the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), along with documentation that the vendor is an authorized distributor/reseller. All offerors must have an active registration in SAM at www.sam.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information will be retained as Market Research.

Who won similar work

21 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same product/service code (PSC) 6630.

Single-winner award sizes (21): middle half $50K to $1.7M, median $420K; range $27K to $10.0M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION4$1.5MApr 27, 2026
BECKMAN COULTER, INC3$10.6MOct 2, 2026
GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC2$2.3MSep 23, 2025
DIASORIN INC1$10.0MApr 18, 2025
BIOPOOL U.S., INC.1$4.0MOct 20, 2025
THERMO ELECTRON NORTH AMERICA LLC · $TMO · $42.9B1$489KMay 22, 2025
ABBOTT LABORATORIES INC. · $ABT · $40.1B1$420KApr 4, 2025
WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION1$368KJul 9, 2026
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC1$150KOct 29, 2025
QUIDELORTHO SALES COMPANY1$55KOct 1, 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
  • $TMO reported $42.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 21 past awards, $420K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $ABT reported $40.1B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 21 past awards, $420K, 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

Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.

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.

  • 2 of these past winners lobbied Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (6 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
  • $88K 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.

  • 8 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.

  • 2 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 9 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.