Pre-solicitationPosted Aug 6, 2026

H166--Albany USP Compliant Pharmacy Certification/ Lab BSC Certification/ Fume Hood Certification

Veterans Affairs · 242-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 02 (36C242)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541380
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C24226Q0808
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
H166
Place
Albany, NY, USA
Contact
Cara Grittner (Cara.grittner@va.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C24226Q0808 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 6, 2026 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
  • Aug 6, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 11, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 21, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 7, 2026 to Oct 12, 2026, middle of the range Sep 24, 2026.
Measured from 48 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of with NAICS 541380 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 6, 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

This is a Pre-Solicitation Notice This Pre-Solicitation Notice is issued by VISN 2 Contracting Office in Canandaigua, NY for the purpose of notifying there will be a solicitation posted for USP compliant Certification for the Sterile Compounding Pharmacy areas and Annual BSC/Fume hood Recertifications for the Albany (Stratton) VA Medical Center. The VA is seeking to provide for this requirement within 60 days of the award of the contract. The NAICS code identified for this requirement is 621511 Medical Laboratories. *This Solicitation will be 100% Set-Aside for Small Business and will include … (show all)

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Who won similar work

98 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same NAICS 541380.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
I-2-I Solutions, Inc.12$6.9MOct 6, 2026
HEALTH SYSTEMS SCIENCES, LLC6$1.7MSep 11, 2026
WINERGY LLC6$1.6MSep 11, 2025
RLM GOVERNMENT SERVICES LLC5$3.0MSep 30, 2026
HYPERION BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC.4$1.8MMar 24, 2026
D & D LABORATORY LLC4$338KOct 8, 2026
PHIGENICS LLC4$317KDec 16, 2025
A-BEAR CONSULT LLC3$527KMay 14, 2026
HGS ENGINEERING INC3$502KOct 10, 2025
ATLANTIC FIRST INDUSTRIES CORPORATION3$107KApr 8, 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 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.

  • 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.