Sources SoughtPosted Dec 22, 2024·Responses due Jan 3, 2025

4420--Freeze Proof Steam Coil - MPLS

Veterans Affairs · NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 23 (36C263)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
221330
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26325Q0301
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
4420
Place
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Contact
Robert Bennett (robert.bennett8@va.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26325Q0301 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Dec 22, 2024 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Feb 11, 2025
    Pre-solicitation
    Open
Solicitation
  • Feb 12, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Feb 12, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Feb 12, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Mar 25, 2025
    Award Notice
    BHAYANA BROTHERS LLC · $29K
    Open

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

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE Before responding please carefully read and consider the following: Procure Armstrong Freeze Proof Steam Coil for the Minneapolis VA Medical System. This is a Sources Sought Announcement Only and no solicitation is currently available. Responses will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After a review of the responses to this Sources Sought Notice, a solicitation announcement may be posted. A response to this Sources Sought Notice is not an adequate reply to a potentially forthcoming solicitation. All information contained in this Sources S… (show all)

ought Announcement is preliminary, as well as subject to modification, and is in no way binding on the Government. The Government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this request. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. The information requested will be used solely within the Department of Veterans Affairs to facilitate decision making and will not be disclosed outside of the Government. The determination of a procurement strategy, based upon the comments submitted in response to this Sources Sought Announcement, is solely within the discretion of the Government. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 221330, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply, size standard is $30.0 Million. NOTE: Please ensure that the System for Award Management (SAM) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement. As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52 Description of Services See attached Statement of Work Only firms seriously interested and truly capable should send their information and/or capability statement and any questions by email to robert.bennett8@va.gov no later than 1:00 PM Central Time, January 3, 2025.

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same NAICS 221330.

Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $130K to $203K, median $158K; range $101K to $248K.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
AKP TECHNOLOGY INC1$248KFeb 3, 2025
WINERGY LLC1$158KAug 12, 2026
BOILER CHILLER SYSTEMS, LLC1$101KFeb 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.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 3 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.