Veterans Affairs wants bids for "Reference and Esoteric Laboratory Testing". Bids are due Nov 30, 2026. In the last 2 years, similar work went to 4 companies, usually for about $1.0M per award. An award is expected between December 2026 and February 2027.
Put together from the facts on this page; the details and sources are below.
Stage
Open solicitation
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.
621511
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C24227R0003
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.
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What the notice says
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Network Contracting Office (NCO) 2, on behalf of Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 2 South, intends to issue a formal solicitation for a Requirements contract for comprehensive Reference Laboratory and Esoteric Testing Services. The contract will serve the VA Medical Centers.
Who won similar work
8 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (242-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 02 (36C242)), same product/service code (PSC) Q301 and NAICS 621511.
Single-winner award sizes (8): middle half $641K to $2.1M, median $1.0M; range $391K to $6.8M.
Not yet. Typical award: Dec 9, 2026 to Feb 28, 2027, middle of the range Jan 12, 2027.
Measured from 54 past solicitations at Veterans Affairs, Department of with NAICS 621511 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Oct 30, 2026).
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. 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
$DGX reported $11.8B revenue (12 months to Sep 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 8 past awards, $1.0M, 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.
Dec 4, 2025QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED$6.8MQ301--Base-Reference Laboratory Testing for VISN2 North (VA-26-00003512)Materiality: 0.06% of $DGX 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: $6.8M award ÷ $11.8B revenue, 12 months to Sep 30, 2026 (SEC 10-Q).SEC
Jun 23, 2025QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED$655KQ301--6-Month Bridge VISN 2 South Specialized Genetic and Esoteric Lab Testing FSS-BPA LSJ AttachedMateriality: <0.01% of $DGX 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: $655K award ÷ $11.8B revenue, 12 months to Sep 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 4 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
$22K 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 3 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.