Special NoticePosted Aug 10, 2026·Responses due Aug 15, 2026

B533 Process Water Samples for Renal Dialysis, VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Veterans Affairs · 260-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 20 (36C260)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
Not stated
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26026Q_0002
Set-aside
Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside (specific to Department of Veterans Affairs)
PSC
B533
Place
Seattle, WA, USA
Contact
Eric A Lingenfelter (Eric.Lingenfelter@va.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26026Q_0002 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 10, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 7, 2026 to Dec 7, 2026, middle of the range Oct 10, 2026.
Measured from 4901 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 10, 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

Amendment 0002: Moves closing date of 36C26026Q0793 to 08/25/2026, 5:00 PM, Pacific Time Update B.4 Delivery Schedule, Quantity to "ALL" Update SF-1449, Block 10, to Set Aside 100%, Veteran Owned Small Business Attached Updated Attachment A

Who won similar work

1638 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Elevated Technologies Services, LLC43$249.1MSep 16, 2026
Edwards Lifesciences LLC · $EW40$2.8MOct 16, 2026
TK Elevator Corporation20$91.5MSep 17, 2026
Trillamed LLC19$12.4MSep 25, 2026
Alvarez LLC15$33.7MOct 7, 2026
V3GATE, LLC12$280.7MOct 14, 2026
ABBOTT LABORATORIES INC. · $ABT10$16.9MOct 1, 2026
HILL-ROM, INC.10$16.0MOct 1, 2026
LOVELL GOVERNMENT SERVICES INC.10$3.8MSep 22, 2026
INSPIRE MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.10$251KOct 15, 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.

Latest awards

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.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (5 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
  • $56K 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.

  • 5 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.

  • 2 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 12 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.