Sources SoughtPosted Oct 19, 2026·Responses due Nov 13, 2026

Cost Per Reportable Result Purchase of Immunohistochemistry Reagents for Laboratory Tests.

Veterans Affairs · 260-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 20 (36C260)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
325413
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26027Q0058
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
6515
Place
Seattle, WA, USA
Contact
Hector D. Baltazar (hector.baltazar@va.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26027Q0058 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Oct 19, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 1, 2026 to Dec 12, 2026, middle of the range Nov 14, 2026.
Measured from 128 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of with NAICS 325413 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Oct 19, 2026).
Responses are due Nov 13, 2026, so an award before then is unlikely; past cases include short solicitations.

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 VA Puget Sound Health Care System Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service requires a histology staining workflow system which includes: Two (2) immunohistochemistry (IHC) and two (2) in-situ hybridization (ISH) immunostainers, and two (2) special stainers, and a specimen tracking system which promotes proper identification of specimens and slides and will audit workflow to identify areas that need improvement and reduce errors. The tracking system will improve patient safety, provide a chain of custody, and will monitor productivity. All the components of the workflow system must communi… (show all)

cate with each other in order to track the workflow. The stainers attached to this system must be automated and allow the system to track and label slides for special staining and immunostaining. The workflow system must be compatible with the IT systems VISTA and/or Cerner, as well as any other new electronic health record system the VA acquires and also be compatible with Data Innovations middleware.

Who won similar work

24 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (260-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 20 (36C260)), same product/service code (PSC) 6515.

Single-winner award sizes (24): middle half $53K to $1.9M, median $348K; range $14K to $4.6M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
CAREFUSION SOLUTIONS, LLC · $BDX · $22.5B3$5.2MSep 22, 2025
GULDMANN, INC.2$5.2MAug 6, 2026
ELECTRONIC WAVEFORM LAB, INC.1$3.7MJun 26, 2025
CEPHEID INC1$3.0MOct 1, 2026
CYTOPATH BIOPSY LAB INC1$2.5MOct 1, 2026
PREMIER MEDICAL DISTRIBUTORS, LLC1$2.0MJun 18, 2026
BRANCH MEDICAL LLC · $GMED · $3.1B1$1.5MJan 22, 2026
FIDELIS SUSTAINABILITY DISTRIBUTION, LLC1$381KMar 20, 2025
KARL STORZ ENDOSCOPY-AMERICA INC1$363KSep 11, 2025
ADVANCED STERILIZATION PRODUCTS SERVICES INC.1$332KJun 10, 2025

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
  • $BDX reported $22.5B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 24 past awards, $348K, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
  • $GMED reported $3.1B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 24 past awards, $348K, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing

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.

  • 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
  • $25K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • 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.

  • 2 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 4 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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