Pre-solicitationPosted Aug 24, 2026·Responses due Sep 24, 2026

Request for White Paper - Heater Modernization

Air Force and Space Force · FA9101 AEDC PKP PROCRMNT BR

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
811310
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA9101269BH1HM
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
J045
Place
Arnold AFB, TN, USA
Contact
Haley Smith (haley.smith.10@us.af.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA9101269BH1HM in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 24, 2026 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 19, 2026 to Feb 19, 2027, middle of the range Nov 30, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 24, 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

Project Subject H-1 Heater Modernization Document Type Request for Whitepapers (RWP) Target Audience AEDC Velocity Alliance Consortium Performers and Industry Partners via SAM.gov Acquisition Authority 10 U.S.C. � 4022 Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC), is issuing this Request for Whitepapers (RWP) to identify a qualified Performer to execute the H-1 Heater Modernization project at Arnold Air Force Base (AAFB), Tennessee. See attachments for details. Note to interested parties: Some documents in this posting are labeled Distribution D and export co… (show all)

ntrolled. For access to these requirements, contact the Contracting/Agreements Officer with your company's CAGE. Once Joint Certification Program and CMMC status are verified, the documents will be sent via DoD SAFE.

Who won similar work

14 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same product/service code (PSC) J045.

Single-winner award sizes (14): middle half $166K to $641K, median $238K; range $14K to $4.7M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ROOTED OAKS CONSTRUCTION, LLC3$497KJul 22, 2026
Northwest HVAC Solutions, LLC1$4.7MDec 31, 2024
PER AARSLEFF GRONLAND APS Nuuk 3900 GRL1$2.3MJun 24, 2025
ARABIC INTERPRETERS LLC1$697KAug 26, 2025
MID MOUNTAIN BOILER AND STEAM, INC.1$663KFeb 27, 2026
VERTICAL OPTIONS LLC1$574KJul 30, 2025
GKR LLC1$320KJun 18, 2025
Tetra Group, LLC1$278KApr 15, 2026
LOUS LOOS LLC1$198KMar 20, 2025
F3 SOLUTIONS LLC1$114KMay 5, 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 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.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of 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.