Special NoticePosted Sep 25, 2026·Responses due Sep 28, 2026

Echo Lumena Analyzer Reagents

Veterans Affairs · 246-NETWORK CONTRACTING OFFICE 6 (36C246)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
325413
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C24627R0005
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
6550
Place
Hampton, VA, USA
Contact
James Risbon (Jamesl.Risbon@va.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C24627R0005 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 25, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Oct 7, 2026
    Award Notice
    WERFEN USA LLC · $69K
    Open
  • Oct 7, 2026
    Award Notice
    WERFEN USA LLC · $69K
    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

Intent to Sole Source for WERFEN USA ECHO LUMENA Analyzer Reagents

Who won similar work

5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 325413.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
CEPHEID Sunnyvale CA 94089 USA1$32.8MOct 2, 2025
BIOMERIEUX INC1$6.3MDec 2, 2024
BINDING SITE, INC. · $TMO1$388KFeb 6, 2025
WERFEN USA LLC1$346KOct 7, 2026
GEO-MED, LLC1$112KJul 21, 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.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 5 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 2 of these past winners lobbied Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (7 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
  • $40K 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.

  • 7 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.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 7 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.