Special NoticePosted Sep 9, 2026·Responses due Sep 18, 2026

Pre-Solicitation Notice with Intent to Sole Source Avidity Pressure Reducing Station and Software Upgrades

Veterans Affairs · RPO EAST (36C24E)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
513210
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C24E26Q0126
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
DA10
Place
OR, USA
Contact
Shannon Hukriede (shannon.hukiede@va.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C24E26Q0126 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 9, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 26, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, middle of the range Oct 13, 2026.
Measured from 56 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of with NAICS 513210 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 9, 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

Pre-Solicitation Notice for the notice of intent to award a sole source contract. This is not a solicitation. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Research and Development (R&D), Regional Procurement Office (RPO) � East in Pittsburgh, PA intends to award on a sole source basis a Firm-Fixed-Price Contract for a one (1) year base period to include four (4) option years to Avidity Science, LLC, 819 Bakke Ave, Waterford, WI 53185, to provide services to the Avidity Pressure Reducing Station and Software Upgrades to the existing Avidity watering system used by the Portland VAMC Resea… (show all)

rch Services. Avidity Science, LLC, is the manufacturer and only known distributor of its watering system. Avidity does not have any authorized resellers. The existing Avidity system at the Portland VAMC requires service to replace Avidity equipment that has reached the end of its life expectancy and to upgrade the existing Avidity system software that is no longer supported. Since the intent is to procure this on a sole source basis, no solicitation will be posted to Contract Opportunities. The applicable NAICS code is 513210 with a $47.0 million size standard. The PSC is DA10. The authority for this action is RFO FAR 6.103-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. Responsible sources may identify their interest by submitting capability information that clearly demonstrates the capability to perform the required work in accordance with the attached statement of work. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government will not be responsible for any costs associated with the preparation of responses to this notification. Capability information is required by Friday, September 18, 2026, 11:00 AM, ET, and must be sent by email to Shannon Hukriede at shannon.hukriede@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted.

Who won similar work

179 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same product/service code (PSC) DA10.

Single-winner award sizes (179): middle half $126K to $1.1M, median $384K; range $2K to $385.4M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
V3GATE, LLC15$280.8MOct 19, 2026
DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC.8$56.5MOct 14, 2026
Alvarez LLC8$17.4MOct 1, 2026
CENSIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.7$80.2MMar 25, 2026
MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC7$18.2MOct 8, 2026
FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.7$5.7MMay 13, 2026
REDHAWK IT SOLUTIONS LLC6$10.1MSep 23, 2026
MEDICOM TECHNOLOGIES INC6$2.9MSep 24, 2026
THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC5$37.4MOct 19, 2026
DATA INNOVATIONS LLC5$9.8MApr 6, 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.

  • 2 of these past winners lobbied Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (6 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.

  • 6 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.

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