AF12--Vetchange System Services- Intent to Sole Source
Veterans Affairs · 241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01 (36C241)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 36C24126Q0655 in this department, oldest first.
- Jul 17, 2026Special NoticeOpen
- Sep 3, 2026 · this noticeSpecial Notice
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 Special Notice of intent to award on a sole source basis. This is not a solicitation. The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to negotiate a requirement for Vetchange Software Services with Education Development Center, Inc., for the Boston VA Healthcare System, MA. The applicable NAICS code is 541720. The small business size standard for this NAICS is $28.0 million. The PSC/FSC is AF12. The authority for this action is RFO FAR 12.102: Restricting competition and fulfills RFO FAR Part 5: Publicizing contract actions. This is a Special notice of intent to award on a sole source bas… (show all)
is is to satisfy the requirements of RFO FAR 5.101. All interested parties should register via SAM.gov interested vendors list. It is the responsibility of the offeror to monitor and download amendments from SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, which may be issued to this notice. In accordance with RFO FAR 52.204-7, RFO FAR 2.101, and VAAR 802.101, prospective firms must be registered in SAM (www.sam.gov), and in VetCert (Veteran Small Business Certification (sba.gov)) databases prior to award. ((Note: In accordance with Public Law 109-461, 38 USC 8127, and NDAA 2021, all vendors claiming Small Business status in accordance with the Veteran's First Contracting Program must be VERIFIED by the Small Business Administration (SBA)). Also, to qualify for a VA contract, vendor must be vendorized by completing Form 10091 at URL � https://www.cep.fsc.va.gov/. Interested persons may contact the Contracting Specialist via email at sebastian.freeze@va.gov regarding this procurement. The determination to conduct a competitive procurement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer.
Who won similar work
7 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same NAICS 541720.
Single-winner award sizes (7): middle half $134K to $1.7M, median $175K; range $25K to $27.1M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTAT, INC. | 2 | $3.4M | Aug 21, 2026 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY Boston MA 02118 USA | 1 | $27.1M | Aug 29, 2025 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY PORTLAND 97239 | 1 | $175K | Sep 15, 2026 |
| VERVE, LLC | 1 | $167K | Sep 18, 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM Birmingham AL 35294 USA | 1 | $100K | Aug 3, 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM 35294 | 1 | $25K | Jul 30, 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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.
- Sep 15, 2026OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY PORTLAND 97239$175KAN12--Machine Learning Analytics for Total Brain Diagnostics Project
- Aug 21, 2026WESTAT, INC.$2.9MR702--Study of Post 9/11 Veterans
- Aug 11, 2026WESTAT, INC.$484KR499--HealthViews: Health of Vietnam Era Women's Study | PO 640C69221
- Aug 3, 2026UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM Birmingham AL 35294 USA$100KAward Notice - Exosome Mediated Effects on Cardiac Injury
- Jul 30, 2026UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM 35294$25KAA11--521-26-4-6175-0600; Advanced Bladder Cancer (VA-26-00080229)
- Sep 18, 2025VERVE, LLC$167KAN41--554 | MIRECC LAB_Rural Veteran Suicide Prevention Data Analysis
- Aug 29, 2025TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY Boston MA 02118 USA$27.1MResearch Services - Boston University
Competitive landscape
For the 6 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
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
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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.
- 0 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 0 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 only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.