Special NoticePosted Aug 6, 2026·Responses due Aug 16, 2026

Notice of Intent to Sole Source | FSA DAFLP Conference

Agriculture (all) · FPAC BUS CNTR-ACQ DIV

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
721110
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
1176276
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
V231
Place
USA
Contact
Crystal Baird (crystal.baird@usda.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 1176276 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 6, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 24, 2026 to Oct 2, 2027, middle of the range Feb 24, 2027.
Measured from 38 past early notices at Farm Production and Conservation Business Center that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 6, 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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Loan Programs (DAFLP) hereby issues this Notice of Intent to award a sole-source, Firm-Fixed-Price contract/purchase order. The Government intends to negotiate exclusively with the vendor identified to secure integrated hotel lodging rooms and compliant training facility spaces. This acquisition is being conducted as a sole-source action under the simplified procedures for commercial products and services in accordance with FAR Part 12. Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul, commercial publicizing and simplified streamlined procedures are fully managed u… (show all)

nder FAR 12.201-1. The contracting officer has determined that the unique circumstances of this acquisition justify a single-source award beneath the simplified threshold. DAFLP requires a single, fully integrated venue capable of simultaneously housing attendees and providing dedicated classroom training facilities for an essential in-person training event in September 2026. This event must accomodate 191 attendees, provide ample conference space to include a general sessions room and 5 breakout rooms and audio visual equiment for the specified dates. Comprehensive market research encompassing multiple Federal and commercial properties in Omaha NE, demonstrated that the proposed vendor is the only source capable of meeting the Government's technical constraints without severe mission disruption.

Who won similar work

1981 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Agriculture (all)), any industry: a loose match.

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

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Multiple Washington DC USA153$1.7BSep 25, 2026
RELIANCE CONTRACTORS INC15$1.9MAug 28, 2026
GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC10$1.7MSep 3, 2026
BRAVO, INC. · $CCZ9$1.8MSep 28, 2026
TYSON FOODS INC. · $TSN8$120.9MAug 31, 2026
THREE STRIPES CONTRACTING LLC8$748KSep 15, 2026
Xplicit Technologies LLC7$396KApr 30, 2026
PARLIAMENT LLC6$1.2MSep 8, 2026
KING MATTHEW R De Pere WI 54115 USA6$168KMay 14, 2026
Covington Firelake JV, LLC5$31.7MSep 23, 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 Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) since 2024 (11 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) job
  • $178K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Agriculture, House Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Senate Committee on Appropriations
  • 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
  • 132 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
  • 1 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.