Special NoticePosted Aug 3, 2026·Responses due Aug 18, 2026

Biomedical Subscription Services

Defense Health Agency · ARMY MED RES ACQ ACTIVITY

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
813920
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
HT9426-26-NOI-TNM832026
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
R499
Place
JBSA Lackland, TX, USA
Contact
Tammy McRae (tammy.n.mcrae.civ@health.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation HT9426-26-NOI-TNM832026 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 3, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Aug 23, 2026 to Oct 10, 2026, middle of the range Sep 3, 2026.
Measured from 67 past early notices at Defense Health Agency (Dha) that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 3, 2026).

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 Notice of Intent to award a Sole Source contract on the basis of other than full and open competition in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, as the unique services are only available from one source and awarding to any other source would not fulfill the agency�s requirements. This is not a Request for Quotes or Proposals. No contract award will be made on the basis of the responses to this notice. The purpose of this notice is to allow interested parties to assert and explain their capability to perform the work described. The Defense Health Agency Contr… (show all)

acting Activity (DHACA) located at 808 Schreider Street, Fort Detrick, MD on behalf of the United States Air Force (USAF) 59th Medical Wing Science & Technology (MDW ST), San Antonio Military Health System (SAMHS) intends to award a sole source firm fixed price contract to BiomedSA to acquire membership into a network of the healthcare and bioscience industrial community. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The USAF 59th MDW S&T Office requires technical and professional support services which include clinical and translational research activities in all capacities ranging from providing personnel services to developing research execution plans and protocols. BioMedSA has the capability to act as a central node connecting the 59th MDW to San Antonio's massive bioscience and healthcare ecosystem and provides a suite of applications allowing interaction and ongoing information exchange among community members across the biosciences, life sciences and health communities, including access to clinical trials network hub. The applications will also allow for managing postgraduate medical training, including tools for scheduling, evaluations, tracking duty time, case logs, conferences, and many other important aspects of program maintenance to include data storage. REQUIRED CAPABILITIES The Contractor shall provide the following continuous services: The contractor shall provision, host, and maintain a web-based application suite capable of managing postgraduate medical training. Required modules and capabilities must include, but are not limited to: Automated scheduling and calendar integration. Standardized and customizable evaluation workflows. Duty time tracking and reporting. Secure logging of medical case logs and clinical trial data. Conference and event management. Secure, scalable cloud data storage with role-based access control (RBAC). Technical Support and SLAs The contractor shall provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 technical assistance for the database and application suite. Availability: Support must be accessible via phone, email, and a web-based ticketing system. Documentation: Maintain up-to-date online video tutorials, user guides, and administrator documentation. Response Times: The contractor shall acknowledge critical system outages within one (1) hour and standard support requests within four (4) business hours. System Uptime: Maintain a minimum system availability/uptime of 99.9%, excluding scheduled maintenance. Maintenance and Database Services The contractor shall maintain the database architecture to industry best practices. Updates: Provide continuous patching, bug fixes, and feature updates to ensure the application remains compatible with current modern web browsers (Edge, Chrome, Safari). Testing: Conduct routine load testing and regression testing prior to any major software release to ensure zero degradation of SAMHS operations. Security and Information Assurance As this system will process Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), PII, and potentially Protected Health Information (PHI), the contractor must adhere to strict DoD and federal data security mandates: Encryption: Ensure data integrity and security through FIPS 140-validated encryption for data at rest (AES-256) and data in transit (TLS 1.2 or higher). Intrusion Protection: Provide enterprise-level Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) and continuous security monitoring. Compliance: The system must meet FedRAMP standards and be capable of supporting DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG) Impact Level 4 (IL4) controls. Privacy: The contractor shall maintain HIPAA compliance and execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with the Government. ELIGIBILITY The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 813920 � Professional Organizations (Size Standard: $23.5 Million). The Product Service Code is R499 � Support � Professional-Other. SUBMISSION DETAILS Responses should appear on company letterhead and include affirmation of active registration in the System of Award Management (SAM), your qualifications and any other applicable data or information. Additionally, respondents should indicate whether they are a large business, small business, small-disadvantaged business, 8(a) concern, woman-owned small business, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, or qualify as socially or economically disadvantaged and whether they are U.S. or foreign owned. If your organization has the potential capacity to provide the required services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, primary points of contact (POCs) and their email address, FAX, Web site address, telephone number, and type of ownership for the organization, DUNS number; and 2) a tailored capability statement addressing the requirements of this notice, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capabilities, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. Interested businesses should submit a brief capabilities statement package (no more than ten pages, with font no smaller than 10 point) demonstrating ability to provide the services listed in the required capabilities description. Documentation should be in bullet format. Your response to this Notice of Intent, including any capabilities statement, shall be electronically submitted to the Contract Specialist, Tammy McRae, in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email to tammy.n.mcrae.civ@health.mil no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on 18 August 2026 and reference the Notice ID number shown above in the subject line of your e-mail and on all enclosed documents. Information and materials submitted in response to this request WILL NOT be returned. DO NOT SUBMIT CLASSIFIED MATERIAL. All data received in response to this Notice of Intent that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside of the Government. Responses to this notice will be used to determine the availability of this type of service. All responsible sources may respond to this notice, and all responses will be considered by the agency.

Who won similar work

8 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Defense Health Agency), same product/service code (PSC) R499.

Single-winner award sizes (8): middle half $898K to $8.8M, median $2.2M; range $59K to $136.5M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
BCG FEDERAL CORP.3$138.5MMay 27, 2026
CHEROKEE NATION INTEGRATED HEALTH, L.L.C.1$19.1MFeb 27, 2025
CP MARINE, LLC1$5.4MJun 17, 2025
VISTA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS, LLC1$3.4MJan 15, 2025
Guidehouse Inc.1$592KNov 18, 2025
MEDIALAB SOLUTIONS LLC1$59KJul 17, 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.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 6 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 Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff 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
  • 32 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.