Veterans Affairs is planning to buy "VR&E Laser equipment acquisition for Veteran". This is an early notice: it is not taking bids yet. The work is in Oregon City, OR, USA. Responses are due Nov 4, 2026. In the last 2 years, similar work (matched on the agency only, a loose match) went to 10 or more companies, usually for about $522K per award. An award is expected between November 2026 and January 2027.
Put together from the facts on this page; the details and sources are below.
Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICSThe industry code for the work being bought (for example 336611 is ship building and repair). It is how agencies and companies sort work by type.
333517
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C10D26Q0211
Set-asideWhether only certain businesses may bid, such as small businesses, women-owned or veteran-owned firms. "None stated" means anyone may bid.
None stated
PSCThe product or service code: what exactly is being bought, more specific than the industry code.
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.
Recent Agency Awards (Loose Match)No past awards matched this office, product/service code or type of work, so these are the agency's recent awards in any industry. They show who the agency buys from, not necessarily who competes for this.
1646 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), any industry: a loose match.
Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 4, 2026 to Jan 20, 2027, middle of the range Nov 23, 2026.
Measured from 4917 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 23, 2026).
Held to the response deadline (Nov 4, 2026): no award is forecast before responses are in.
Single-winner award sizes (1626): middle half $104K to $2.6M, median $522K; range $2K to $30.0B.
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either (1 here). Notices whose amount is a placeholder such as $999,999,999 are not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
Investor context
$EW reported $6.5B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 1626 past awards, $522K, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.
Oct 27, 2026Edwards Lifesciences LLC$34K6515--Supplies - Valve - IndianapolisMateriality: <0.01% of $EW revenue (Low)How big this award is next to the company's revenue over the last 12 months: Low under 1%, Medium 1-5%, High 5% or more. Award amount divided by revenue from the company's SEC filings. Here: $34K award ÷ $6.5B revenue, 12 months to Jun 30, 2026 (SEC 10-Q).SEC
Oct 27, 2026Edwards Lifesciences LLC$33K6515--Supplies - Sapien Implant - ClevelandMateriality: <0.01% of $EW revenue (Low)How big this award is next to the company's revenue over the last 12 months: Low under 1%, Medium 1-5%, High 5% or more. Award amount divided by revenue from the company's SEC filings. Here: $33K award ÷ $6.5B revenue, 12 months to Jun 30, 2026 (SEC 10-Q).SEC
Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.
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
$8K 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
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
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.
1 of the past winners are listed companies
0 insider buys and 8 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.