Special NoticePosted Sep 16, 2026·Responses due Sep 28, 2026

Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) Planogramming-Assortment Planning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Solution

Army Contracting Command (ACC) · W6QK ACC-APG CONTR CTR

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541511
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
W9128Z-26-R-DeCA-PAP
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
DA10
Place
Not stated
Contact
Jimmy H Dinh (jimmy.h.dinh.civ@army.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation W9128Z-26-R-DeCA-PAP in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 16, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
  • Sep 23, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
  • Sep 23, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
  • Sep 24, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 27, 2026 to Jan 20, 2027, middle of the range Nov 21, 2026.
Measured from 718 past early notices at Dept of the Army that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 16, 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 Call for Solutions is issued under the Army Open Solicitation W9128Z-25-S-A002. Army Contracting Command � Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) in support of the Defense Commissary Agency is seeking for solutions for Planogramming-Assortment Planning SaaS Solution The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) is a component of the Department of War (DoW) that provides enterprise-wide mission support to all United States (U.S.) uniformed services, including the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard, in both continental United States (CONUS) and outside of the continental Un… (show all)

ited States (OCONUS) locations. DeCA�s mission is to deliver a vital benefit of the military compensation package that improves quality of life and readiness by providing grocery items at significant savings to military personnel and their families. DeCA operates a global system of 235 commissaries across 45 states, 13 countries, and two U.S. territories, with approximately 3,000 checkout lanes. To support modern retail operations, DeCA requires a robust, integrated planogramming and assortment planning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables data-driven merchandising decisions, optimizes retail space utilization, improves category performance, and supports efficient planogram development, maintenance, and execution across its worldwide network. DeCA�s Category Management team manages over 200 product categories across approximately 235 globally dispersed store locations. Historically, Category Managers have expended significant manual effort building, updating, and maintaining product assortments and physical planograms. This process is highly complex due to the unique architectural layouts, localized merchandising requirements, and varying store sizes of each individual commissary. To modernize operations, DeCA requires a comprehensive, integrated Planogramming-Assortment Planning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. The Call for Solutions document, submission requirements can be found in the Attachments section below.

Who won similar work

7 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Army Contracting Command (ACC)), same NAICS 541511.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ALLIANCE TWO GROUP, LLC1$44.9MSep 25, 2026
TORCH RESEARCH, LLC1$43.9MFeb 26, 2026
Guidehouse Inc.1$12.0MSep 26, 2025
SIEMENS GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGIES INC1$503KMay 29, 2025
BLUE TECH INC.1$321KSep 18, 2025
JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC.1$173KSep 28, 2026
Sonepar Mountain Holdings, LLC1$63KApr 8, 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 7 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) or Army, Dept of (Other) or Natl Guard since 2024 (11 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) or Army, Dept of (Other) or Natl Guard 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.

  • 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.