Pre-solicitationPosted Dec 16, 2024·Responses due Dec 31, 2024

R499--Document Shredding Services for the Minneapolis VA

Veterans Affairs · NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 23 (36C263)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
561990
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26325Q0256
Set-aside
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside (FAR 19.14)
PSC
R499
Place
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Contact
Traci Johannes (traci.johannes@va.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26325Q0256 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Dec 16, 2024 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
  • Dec 17, 2024
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Dec 26, 2024
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Jan 30, 2025
    Award Notice
    BREEWORLD LLC · $1.7M
    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 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 23, for the procurement of DOCUMENT SHREDDING at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System located in Minneapolis, MN. The NAICS code for this procurement is 561990 All Other Support Services with a size standard of $16.5 Million. Potential offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation package and any other pertinent information and for downloading their own copy of the solicitation package. Any amendments issued to this solicitation will ONLY be available on… (show all)

this site. Offerors are advised that they are responsible for obtaining all amendments. All questions must be submitted in writing to the Contracting Specialist at Traci.Johannes@va.gov. No telephone inquiries will be accepted. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract neither does it obligate the Government to pay for any quotes or proposal preparation costs. The Government is not obligated to issue a solicitation as a result of this notice. No other information is available until issuance of the solicitation. All interested parties must be registered in System for Award Management (SAM) to be eligible for award. Registration information can be found at www.sam.gov.

Who won similar work

5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 23 (36C263)), same product/service code (PSC) R499.

Single-winner award sizes (5): middle half $88K to $1.8M, median $304K; range $7K to $3.0M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
VETERANS MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.1$3.0MSep 25, 2025
PATHFINDER CONSULTANTS, LLC1$1.8MDec 4, 2025
MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC1$304KJun 11, 2025
EASIER COMMUNICATIONS, LLC. DENVER 802091$88KAug 31, 2026
GAVIN SWIFT EMMETSBURG 505361$7KFeb 19, 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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 5 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 only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.