Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source: Telecommunications and Data Services for AKARNG
National Guard Bureau · NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU
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Where this opportunity stands
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- Jul 29, 2026 · this noticeSpecial Notice
Next steps for this stage
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What the notice says
Contracting Office: United States Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO-AK) for Alaska National Guard Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) Proposed Vendor: GCI Communication Corp., 2550 Denali St., Suite 1000, Anchorage, AK 99503 Requirement Description The United States Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO-AK), on behalf of the Alaska Army National Guard Network Enterprise Center (AKARNG-NEC), intends to award a non-competitive, firm-fixed-price contract to GCI Communication Corp. The scope of this action covers commercial telecommunications, analog emergency landlines, mobile internet, and data c… (show all)
ircuit services across 19 active accounts supporting Alaska Army National Guard personnel across Fort Richardson, Camp Denali, and state-wide facilities. The proposed contract action has an period of performance as follows: Base Period: 01 November 2026 � 31 October 2027 Option Period 1: 01 November 2027 � 31 October 2028 Statutory Authority This statutory authority permitting sole source contracting is 41 U.S.C. 1901(e)(1)(A)(ii), as implemented in FAR 13.501(a)(1)(ii)�Sole Source (including brand name) under the authority of Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items. Justification for Sole Source Awarding to any source other than GCI Communication Corp. would result in a substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition, as well as unacceptable operational delays in maintaining critical telecommunications and life-safety systems. GCI Communication Corp. owns the physical telecommunication infrastructure, state-wide wiring, and hardware connected directly to AKARNG facilities. Transitioning to a new vendor would require extensive infrastructure construction, new hardware installation, and significant operational delays across 19 active accounts, directly impacting life-safety emergency analog lines (including 911 call boxes, elevator emergency phones, and fire/vault alarms). THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS OR QUOTATIONS.
Who won similar work
3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (National Guard Bureau), any industry: a loose match.
Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAYA BOUTIQUE & TINY TOTS LLC | 2 | $181K | Oct 16, 2026 |
| SUSTECH LLC | 1 | $17.5M | Oct 16, 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.
- Oct 16, 2026ZAYA BOUTIQUE & TINY TOTS LLC$99KTexas Army National Guard- Breakfast Catered Meals, Gatesville, TX
- Oct 16, 2026ZAYA BOUTIQUE & TINY TOTS LLC$83KTexas Army National Guard- Dinner Catered Meals, Gatesville, TX
- Oct 16, 2026SUSTECH LLC$17.5MInvitation for Bid: Army National Guard Military Construction, Engineering/Housing Maintenance Shop, Camp Santiago, Salinas, PR
Competitive landscape
For the 2 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 Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) or Army, Dept of (Other) or Natl Guard since 2024 (0 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) or Army, Dept of (Other) or Natl Guard job
- No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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
- 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
- 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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.
- 0 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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.