R699--Salem Telephone Switchboard Operators
Veterans Affairs · 246-NETWORK CONTRACTING OFFICE 6 (36C246)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 36C24626Q0239 in this department, oldest first.
- Apr 10, 2026 · this noticePre-solicitation
- May 6, 2026Award NoticeINNOVATION AT WORK INC · $1.2MOpen
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 Department of Veteran s Affairs will solicit for vendors capable of providing On-Site Telephone Switchboard Operator Services and Administrative Support for the Salem VA Medical Center, located in Salem, VA. The solicitation is for a Total Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, SDVOSB. This will be awarded as a Firm-Fixed contract. A Request for Quotation, RFQ, will be issued on, or around, Friday, April 10, 2026. To be eligible for the award, the prospective contractor must be registered in SAM database at http://www.sam.gov at the time the quote is submitted and comply with the E… (show all)
valuation for Basis of Award. The prospective contractor must also have updated and correct information in the VA Financial Service Center s Customer Engagement Portal at the time the quote is submitted. If you are an SDVOSB, VOSB or Small Business and plan on subcontracting, please provide a plan to show how your company provides 51% of the requirement. The North American Industry Classification Code, NAICS, is 561421 (Telephone Answering Services), Product Service Code is R699 (Support-Administrative: Other) and the Size Standard is $19 Million. Interested and capable contractors must email Satasha Stewart at Satasha.Stewart@va.gov and reference solicitation number 36C24626Q0239. Point of Contact: Satasha Stewart Satasha.Stewart@va.gov *Please direct all questions to the above email address. Phone calls will not be accepted.
Who won similar work
4 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (246-NETWORK CONTRACTING OFFICE 6 (36C246)), same NAICS 561421.
Single-winner award sizes (4): middle half $583K to $1.7M, median $960K; range $431K to $2.9M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| INNOVATION AT WORK INC | 2 | $3.5M | Sep 23, 2026 |
| EMPLOYMENT SOURCE INC | 1 | $1.3M | Jan 30, 2025 |
| CAREER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES OF IOWA, LLC | 1 | $431K | Apr 16, 2026 |
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
- Sep 23, 2026INNOVATION AT WORK INC$2.9MR426--Switchboard Operator ServiceNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Apr 16, 2026CAREER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES OF IOWA, LLC$431KR426--Telephone Switchboard Operator ServicesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jan 30, 2025EMPLOYMENT SOURCE INC$1.3MR499--Switchboard Operator and Administrative ServicesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Nov 8, 2024INNOVATION AT WORK INC$634KR426--HVAMC SWITCHBOARD OPERATORNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
Competitive landscape
For the 3 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
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
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
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, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.