Combined Synopsis/SolicitationPosted Jul 29, 2025·Responses due Aug 11, 2025

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Veterans Affairs · 262-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 22 (36C262)

Stage
Open solicitation
NAICS
484230
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26225Q1156
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
V112
Place
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Contact
Katharine Robert (katharine.robert@va.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26225Q1156 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 10, 2025
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
  • Jul 23, 2025
    Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
    Open
  • Jul 29, 2025 · this notice
    Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
  • Aug 6, 2025
    Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Sep 4, 2025
    Award Notice
    K & M TRANSPORTATION SERVICES LLC · $21K
    Open

Next steps for this stage

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  • Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
  • Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
  • Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.

What the notice says

The purpose of this amendment is to: Add an inquiry period. All inquiries must be submitted via email to Contract Specialist, Jennell Christofaro @jennell.christofaro@va.gov, not later than 11:00 AM PST, August 4, 2025. Answers to inquiries will be posted via amendment to SAM.gov on or about August 5, 2025. Extend the quote submission deadline of the solicitation to 11:00 AM Augst 11, 2025. All quotes must be submitted via email to Contract Specialist, Katharine Robert @ katharine.robert@va.gov, not later than 11:00 AM PST, August 11, 2025. Update the combined synopsis solicitation document wi… (show all)

th FAR Clauses and Provisions that apply to this solicitation. Update Attachment 1 to reflect the inquiry period and the extension to the quote submission deadline. No other changes have been made.

Who won similar work

4 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same product/service code (PSC) V112.

Single-winner award sizes (4): middle half $497K to $1.3M, median $680K; range $126K to $2.9M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
BATTLE AXE TRANSPORT, LLC1$2.9MJun 13, 2026
EARTH SMART ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LLC1$740KMay 15, 2025
CROSSTOWN COURIER SERVICE INC1$621KDec 5, 2024
NATURAL OFFICE FURNITURE LLC1$126KSep 11, 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 4 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
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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
  • 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.