Special NoticePosted Aug 21, 2026·Responses due Sep 17, 2026

VEHICLE DIMENSION AND VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION (VIN) DECODING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) INTEGRATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF WAR (DoW) PERSONAL PROPERTY SYSTEM

Department of Defense (all) · USTRANSCOM-AQ

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
518210
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
None
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
DA10
Place
Not stated
Contact
Chris Frost (christopher.t.frost4.civ@mail.mil)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

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Early notice
  • Aug 21, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (4 found; 10 needed).

Next steps for this stage

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What the notice says

INTRODUCTION The Personal Property Activity (PPA) is conducting market research to identify commercial sources capable of providing a high-fidelity, high-performance vehicle dimension and vehicle identification number (VIN) decoding application programming interface (API) to assist the personal property system. The government system this API will be integrating with is a modernized, cloud-based platform designed to streamline the relocation and transport of household (HHG) and privately-owned vehicles (POV) for active-duty military service members, dependents, Department of War (DoW) Civilians… (show all)

, and other customers supported by the DoW. Accordingly, the PPA invites industry partners, software vendors, and data providers to submit detailed information regarding their API capabilities, licensing costs, performance Service Level Agreements (SLA), data accuracy, data caching terms, and security compliance. This Request for Information (RFI) enables industry stakeholders to provide direct feedback on how their existing technical solutions can meet the government system�s stringent operational requirements, helping to shape future technical specifications and acquisition strategies. This RFI is issued solely for informational and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation for proposals. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot form a binding contract. The PPA is under no obligation to pursue any acquisition alternative based on this RFI, and the Government will not compensate respondents for any information received. All submissions will be kept confidential, will become the property of the U.S. Government, and will not be returned. SUBMISSION DEADLINE Thursday, September 17, 2026, at 4:00 PM CDT POINTS OF CONTACT (POCs) The preferred method of communication with the POCs is email. RFI submissions and questions must be submitted via email to all points of contact. Contracting Officer: Chris Frost; christopher.t.frost4.civ@mail.mil Contracts Specialist: Kevin Peaslee: kevin.p.peaslee.mil@mail.mil Technical Lead: Chris Doyon; christopher.e.doyon.civ@mail.mil IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS Interested parties are advised to read the attached RFI in its entirety.

Who won similar work

114 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Department of Defense (all)), same product/service code (PSC) DA10.

Single-winner award sizes (114): middle half $120K to $6.3M, median $497K; range $16K to $652.0M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP7$25.2MSep 11, 2026
DS GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS CORP3$2.3MSep 30, 2026
THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC3$340KJun 25, 2026
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION · $LMT · $67.6B2$1.3BAug 5, 2025
BY LIGHT PROFESSIONAL IT SERVICES LLC2$791.9MMay 12, 2026
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC · $BAH · $10.7B2$166.2MJul 14, 2026
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION · $IBM · $61.9B2$119.0MOct 27, 2025
LEXISNEXIS SPECIAL SERVICES INC2$23.8MApr 1, 2026
3DB LABS INC2$17.9MJul 22, 2026
LASTWALL CORP.2$7.6MJun 12, 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.

Investor context
  • $LMT reported $67.6B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 114 past awards, $497K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $BAH reported $10.7B revenue in FY2026. The median single-winner award in these 114 past awards, $497K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $IBM reported $61.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 114 past awards, $497K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K

One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.

Latest awards

Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.

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 Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2024 (35 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff job
  • $394K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • 1 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.

  • 8 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.

  • 3 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 3 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.