Sources SoughtPosted Jul 10, 2025·Responses due Jul 18, 2025

Biospecimen Sample Transfer

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

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
484230
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26225Q1156
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
V112
Place
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Contact
Katharine Robert (katharine.robert@va.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

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

Early notice
  • Jul 10, 2025 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
  • Jul 23, 2025
    Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
    Open
  • Jul 29, 2025
    Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
    Open
  • 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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  • 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

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. It is neither a solicitation announcement nor a request for proposals or quotes and does not obligate the Government to award a contract. ** This Sources Sought Notice will be used to determine competitive set-aside. ** Network Contract Office (NCO) 22 is seeking a qualified vendor to provide the transportation of biospecimen samples from the Department of Veterans Affairs, San Diego Health Care System, 8810 Rio San Diego Dr., San Diego, CA 92108 to the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating… (show all)

Center, 2401 Centre Avenue SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.

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.