Special NoticePosted Jul 28, 2026·Responses due Jul 31, 2026

Notice of Intent for Single Source Award

Forest Service · FOREST SERVICE

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
339920
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
1173168
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
4240
Place
DC, USA
Contact
Mikaela Laney (mikaela.laney@usda.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 1173168 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 28, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 19, 2026 to Dec 15, 2026, middle of the range Oct 21, 2026.
Measured from 92 past early notices at Forest Service that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Jul 28, 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

NOTICE OF INTENT FOR SINGLE SOURCE AWARD - The USDA Forest Service intends to solicit a quotation on a single source basis IAW FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) from Team Wendy LLC for multiple EPIC� Protector High-Cut Ballistic Helmets.

Who won similar work

7 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Forest Service), same industry group (NAICS 3399).

Single-winner award sizes (7): middle half $71K to $834K, median $180K; range $27K to $1.8M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
MMI OUTDOOR INC2$1.7MJun 5, 2025
CASCADE FIRE EQUIPMENT CO White City OR 97503 USA1$1.8MJul 21, 2026
WESTERN SHELTER SYSTEMS, LLC1$180KMay 12, 2026
TERRA TECH LLC1$92KApr 21, 2025
FOL-DA-TANK, LLC1$50KAug 25, 2025
R LAZY B ENTERPRISES LLC1$27KMar 30, 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 6 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 U.S. Forest Service since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past U.S. Forest Service 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
  • 15 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.