DA10--Pre-Solicitation Notice with Intent to Sole Source R&D VR Tech Support Services for Immersive VR Training Tool Modification and Maintenance
Veterans Affairs · RPO EAST (36C24E)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 36C24E26Q0116 in this department, oldest first.
- Aug 31, 2026 · this noticeSpecial Notice
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
Pre-Solicitation Notice for the notice of intent to award a sole source contract. This is not a solicitation. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Research and Development (R&D), Regional Procurement Office (RPO) East in Pittsburgh, PA intends to award on a sole source basis a Firm-Fixed-Price Contract for a one (1) year base period to include two (2) option years to XRtistry LLC, 5536 Linn Road, Amherst, OH 44001 for R&D Custom VR Tech Support Services for Immersive VR Training Tool Modification and Maintenance. XRtistry is the only known vendor that can provide the R&D VR Tech… (show all)
Support Services for Immersive VR Training Tool Modification and Maintenance required by the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (LSCVAMC) in support of ongoing research projects as the original custom software application developer. The software is not available to purchase on the open market and contains proprietary intellectual property. The VA research team requires additional tech support services to modify and upgrade the original custom software for use in home settings by Veterans participating in a randomized clinical trial for impairment due to traumatic brain injury. Since the intent is to procure this on a sole source basis, no solicitation will be posted to Contract Opportunities. The applicable NAICS code is 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services with a $34.0 million size standard. The PSC is DA10. The authority for this action is RFO FAR 6.103-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. However, any responsible source who can provide an equivalent service with the features described above, may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 3:00 PM, ET. Interest/capability statements which specifically detail how your service meets the requirement may be sent to Shannon Hukriede at shannon.hukriede@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
Who won similar work
177 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same product/service code (PSC) DA10.
Single-winner award sizes (177): middle half $125K to $1.1M, median $360K; range $2K to $385.4M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| V3GATE, LLC | 14 | $280.3M | Oct 18, 2026 |
| DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC. | 8 | $56.5M | Oct 14, 2026 |
| Alvarez LLC | 8 | $17.4M | Oct 1, 2026 |
| CENSIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 7 | $80.2M | Mar 25, 2026 |
| MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC | 7 | $18.2M | Oct 8, 2026 |
| FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C. | 7 | $5.7M | May 13, 2026 |
| REDHAWK IT SOLUTIONS LLC | 6 | $10.1M | Sep 23, 2026 |
| MEDICOM TECHNOLOGIES INC | 6 | $2.9M | Sep 24, 2026 |
| DATA INNOVATIONS LLC | 5 | $9.8M | Apr 6, 2026 |
| GOVERNMENT MARKETING AND PROCUREMENT, LLC | 5 | $1.1M | Sep 2, 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.
- Oct 18, 2026V3GATE, LLC$519KDA10--PUPPET ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE (VA-26-00062749)
- Oct 14, 2026DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC.$7.5MVISN 9 Theradoc Pharmacy Assistant
- Oct 8, 2026MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC$290KDA10--VISN21 DSS DATABRIDGE
- Oct 5, 2026RADFORMATION, INC$277KDA10--Radformation2 software and maintenance services (VA-27-00004112)
- Oct 5, 2026MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC$787KDA10--Electronic Prescribing RxTracker Solution – VISN 17
- Oct 5, 2026DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC.$47.4MDA10--Infusion Therapy Manager (ITM) Application for NOP
- Oct 1, 2026PERFORMAX 3, INC.$282KDA10--FY27: Talent Management Service - Performax Web Host Award Notice
- Oct 1, 2026Alvarez LLC$8.6MDA10--Brand Name Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool subscriptions and ancillary support services
- Oct 1, 2026DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC.$788KDA10--DSS DataBridge Maintenance and Support (VA-27-00000586)
- Oct 1, 2026V3GATE, LLC$2KDA10--RedHat OS Service Contract -w/wd, BONLY POP 10/1/2026 - 9/30/2027
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
- 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.
- 6 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
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
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.