Justification (Sole Source)Posted Oct 18, 2026

DA10--PUPPET ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE (VA-26-00062749)

Veterans Affairs · TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION CENTER NJ (36C10B)

Stage
Justification for other than full competition
NAICS
541519
Value
$519K
Solicitation
36C10B26Q0610
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
DA10
Place
Not stated
Contact
Jennifer McCloud (Jennifer.McCloud@va.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C10B26Q0610 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
None posted
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Oct 18, 2026
    Award Notice
    V3GATE, LLC · $519K
    Open
Other notices
  • Oct 18, 2026 · this notice
    Justification (Sole Source)
    V3GATE, LLC · $519K

Next steps for this stage

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  • The agency intends to buy without full competition. Read the justification for the reason and the named source.

What the notice says

Puppet Enterprise Platform

Who won similar work

58 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION CENTER NJ (36C10B)), same product/service code (PSC) DA10 and NAICS 541519.

Single-winner award sizes (58): middle half $310K to $1.8M, median $629K; range $24K to $217.5M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
V3GATE, LLC12$280.1MOct 19, 2026
Alvarez LLC6$14.8MOct 1, 2026
REDHAWK IT SOLUTIONS LLC5$9.3MSep 23, 2026
FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.5$5.1MMay 13, 2026
MINBURN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC4$1.8MOct 8, 2026
METGREEN SOLUTIONS INC3$155.0MSep 24, 2026
THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY, LLC3$6.9MOct 19, 2026
EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, L.L.C.2$7.9MJul 2, 2026
BLUE TECH INC.2$2.5MOct 23, 2025
FEDSTORE CORPORATION2$2.2MMar 17, 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.

  • 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.