Pre-solicitationPosted Sep 24, 2026·Responses due Oct 8, 2026

Weekly Gardening Services at Residential Properties in Hungary

State · EMBASSY BUDAPEST

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
561730
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
PR16298184
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
S208
Place
Budapest, HUN
Contact
Budapest Procurement (budapestbids@state.gov)
Loading your pipeline and notes…
CSV Email

Capture briefs (a one-page, shareable copy of this page) are part of Pro. The CSV here holds the notice, its timeline and past awards.

Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation PR16298184 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 24, 2026 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 29, 2026 to Mar 8, 2027, middle of the range Jan 14, 2027.
Measured from 110 past early notices at State, Department of that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 24, 2026).

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

PR16298184 � Gardening at Residential Properties The U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary requires weekly gardening and groundskeeping services at 3 of its residential properties: �Matyas� (11,219 SqM), �Ora� (8,796 SqM), and �Bimbo� (7,528 SqM). The performance period is 1 year, expected to commence not later than November 1, 2026. All firms that respond to this solicitation must be technically qualified and financially responsible to perform such a service. At a minimum, each offeror must meet the following requirements to submit a proposal: have an established business with a permanent address… (show all)

and telephone listing in Hungary, be able to understand written and spoken English, have the necessary personnel, equipment, and financial resources available to perform the work, including trained and qualified employees for gardening/landscaping (vocational high school diploma, adult education certification, or similar), have a minimum of 5 years of experience in landscaping and lawn care maintenance, have all licenses and permits required by local, Hungarian law, have liability insurance, have no adverse criminal record (workers must obtain Hungarian �Certificate of Good Conduct�), accept NET30 payment terms. Responding contractors can receive the Solicitation package directly following the expiration of the pre-solicitation.

Who won similar work

20 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (State), same product/service code (PSC) S208.

Single-winner award sizes (20): middle half $140K to $761K, median $267K; range $22K to $2.2M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
TROPIC PLANNERS & LANDSCAPE PTE. LTD.2$1.1MSep 8, 2025
DIANI FLOWERS AND LANDSCAPING LIMITED1$2.2MJul 1, 2025
J. BROCK & SON A/S Hellerup 2900 DNK1$1.2MApr 20, 2026
GARDEN ALLIANCE COMPANY1$1.1MDec 10, 2025
Horizon Facilities Management & Landscaping LLC1$763KSep 21, 2026
Al Akhras and Al Rajabi Co. Amman JOR1$761KApr 15, 2025
STE YASMINE GARDEN Tunis 1003 TUN1$699KSep 3, 2026
GREEN GEM PROPRIETARY LIMITED1$355KAug 31, 2026
TIGRIS WAY CORP.1$284KDec 2, 2025
BP PROFESSIONAL DESIGN CO., LTD.1$271KMay 7, 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 State, Dept of (DOS) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past State, Dept of (DOS) job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
See who and the source records with Pro

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
  • 33 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
See who and the source records with Pro

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
See who and the source records with Pro

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.