Sources SoughtPosted Oct 8, 2026·Responses due Oct 19, 2026

Laundry and Linen Services for Customer-Owned Goods - VA NorCal

Veterans Affairs · 261-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 21 (36C261)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
812331
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26127Q0084
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
S209
Place
Mather, CA, USA
Contact
Shanel Pagaragan (Shaneldylana.Pagaragan@va.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26127Q0084 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Oct 8, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 5, 2026 to Feb 4, 2027, middle of the range Dec 8, 2026.
Measured from 4901 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Oct 8, 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 sources sought for Laundry and Linen Services for Customer-Owned Goods for VA Northern California. The Government is seeking information on the availability of qualified vendors capable of providing these services. The purpose of this sources sought is to gauge market interest. Please review the attached RFI 36C26127Q0084 document and sample Performance Work Statement (PWS). To be considered a complete response, provide the information requested in items 1-5. Responses will be sent to Shaneldylana.Pagaragan@va.gov no later than 10/19/2026 12:00 pm PDT.

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (261-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 21 (36C261)), same product/service code (PSC) S209.

Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $1.6M to $5.6M, median $3.0M; range $214K to $8.1M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
EMERALD TEXTILES SERVICES, SAN DIEGO, LLC2$8.3MAug 24, 2026
A&K ROCK FOUNDATION LLC1$3.0MOct 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.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 2 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.