Special NoticePosted Sep 22, 2026·Responses due Sep 25, 2026

Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Antenna Refurbishment

Air Force and Space Force · FA8604 AFLCMC PZI

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
811210
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
F3LTF16223A001
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
5985
Place
Wright Patterson AFB, OH, USA
Contact
tyler fruhwirth (tyler.fruhwirth@us.af.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation F3LTF16223A001 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 22, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 20, 2026 to Jan 8, 2028, middle of the range Jan 21, 2027.
Measured from 13 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force with NAICS 811210 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 22, 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

Notice of Intent to Sole Source Action: The Department of the Air Force intends to award a sole-source contract under FAR 6.302-1 / FAR 13.106-1(b) for the inspection, overhaul, refurbishment, and testing of government-owned satellite terminal antennas. Requirement: Work must meet OEM technical specifications. The Government does not own the proprietary data, software, or tooling required to compete this effort. Responses: Per FAR 5.207(c)(16)(ii), all responsible sources may submit a capability statement demonstrating authorized OEM repair capabilities. Submissions will be used solely to dete… (show all)

rmine if a competitive procurement can be conducted. Please see attached JA and BoM for specifications. Due Date: 8 September 2026 Anticipated Award Date: 11 September 2026 POC: tyler.fruhwirth@us.af.mil

Who won similar work

107 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Air Force and Space Force), same NAICS 811210.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
THOMAS INSTRUMENT, INCORPORATED3$18.2MSep 30, 2025
LINMARR ASSOCIATES, INC.3$2.2MJul 21, 2025
APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING INC3$2.1MApr 27, 2026
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION · $NOC2$143.3MApr 22, 2026
IAP WORLD SERVICES, INC.2$92.0MMay 20, 2026
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.2$50.7MOct 22, 2025
L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · $LHX2$15.2MSep 25, 2026
DRS TRAINING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS Fort Walton Beach FL 32548 USA2$9.8MSep 15, 2025
PEAK SIGNALS, LLC2$1.4MJan 31, 2025
DELTA TEKNIK ELEK.ELEKTRO.GUV.SIS.TEK.MALZ.PAZ.TURZ.ITH.IHR.INS.SAN. VE TIC.LTD.STI. adana 01310 TUR2$771KJul 29, 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.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (14 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
  • $675K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • 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.

  • 8 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.

  • 2 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 1 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.