Sources SoughtPosted Aug 12, 2026·Responses due Aug 27, 2026

Preventive and Remedial Maintenance of MTS Laboratory Equipment

Air Force and Space Force · FA8601 AFLCMC PZIO

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334519
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA860126Q0125
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
J066
Place
Wright Patterson AFB, OH, USA
Contact
Brian Algeo (brian.algeo.1@us.af.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA860126Q0125 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 12, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Aug 31, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 7, 2026 to Feb 7, 2027, middle of the range Nov 18, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 12, 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

SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS Notice from the United States Air Force, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), Installation Contracting Division, Base Support Contracting Branch at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio: INTRODUCTION: The AFLCMC Operational Contracting Branch at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, on behalf of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), is conducting market research through this Sources Sought Notice to identify potential sources, including Small Businesses (SB), capable of providing Preventive and Remedial Maintenance of MTS Laboratory Equipment. A set-as… (show all)

ide decision has not yet been made for this acquisition. The required includes Preventive and Remedial Maintenance of MTS Laboratory Equipment with the Performance Work Statement (PWS) attachment 1. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Interested parties are requested to submit a capability package that provides clear and convincing evidence of their ability to meet the requirements outlined above. In addition, interested parties must provide the following information: Company Name, Address, CAGE Code, and Unique Entity ID (UEI). Point of Contact (Name, Phone Number, and Email Address). Company business size status under NAICS 334519-Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (SB Size Standard 600 Employees) Prospective contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at https://www.sam.gov to be eligible for a Department of Defense contract award. CLOSING: Responses to this Sources Sought notice must be submitted via email no later than Thursday, 27 August 2026, at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. All correspondence sent via email must contain the subject line: �Sources Sought: Preventive and Remedial Maintenance of MTS Laboratory Equipment.� Be advised that due to network filters, attachments ending in .zip or .exe are not allowable and will be deleted. The points of contact for this action are Brian Algeo, Contract Specialist, at brian.algeo.1@us.af.mil, and Candice Snow, Contracting Officer, at candice.snow@us.af.mil. This is a Sources Sought notice for market research purposes only. In accordance with Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) 15.101, responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Any information submitted by respondents to this notice is strictly voluntary and will not be reimbursed by the Government. The Government�s assessment of the capability statements received will factor into whether any forthcoming solicitation will be conducted as a full and open competition or as a set-aside. Attachments: Performance Work Statement (PWS) Instructions to Offerors (ITO)

Who won similar work

44 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same NAICS 334519.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
UNITED WESTERN TECHNOLOGIES CORP.3$6.1MSep 14, 2026
Illinois Tool Works, INC · $ITW3$784KMar 26, 2026
NEWCO INC3$389KSep 23, 2026
SAFEWARE INC3$319KSep 29, 2026
Heidelberg Resources, LLC1$5.4MSep 22, 2025
TITOMIC USA INC1$5.0MSep 23, 2026
CUBRC, INC.1$3.0MJan 13, 2026
HYDRAULICS INTERNATIONAL, INC.1$1.9MJul 15, 2026
DIT-MCO International LLC1$492KFeb 4, 2025
MTS SYSTEMS CORPORATION1$437KMar 31, 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.

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 Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of 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
  • 32 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 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.