6550--Intent to Sole Source | 3 Month Bridge Philadelphia VA Medical Center Laboratory Hematology/Chemistry Testing
Veterans Affairs · 244-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 4 (36C244)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 36C24426Q0934 in this department, oldest first.
- Aug 26, 2026 · this noticeSpecial Notice
- Aug 26, 2026Special NoticeOpen
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
INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 4 (NCO4) intends to sole source a 3-month Bridge contract for Beckman Coulter Chemistry Testing for Philadelphia VA Medical Center. All work is to be completed in accordance with statement of work. This sole source contract will be solicited and negotiated with Beckman Coulter, Inc,250 S. Kraemer Blvd, Brea, CA 92821 under the authority of FAR 6.103-11 Single Source Justification. See attached Draft Statement of Work (SOW). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is … (show all)
334516. The Small Business Administration (SBA) standard is 1000 employees. Interested vendors that can meet this requirement shall identify their interest and capability, and respond to this notice by 08/28/2026 by 4:00 PM EST. Interested vendors must send a capability statement, no more than one page in length; to include Company Name, ueiSAM Number, Socioeconomic Category, brief description of your business entities capability to handle this project at Philadelphia VA Medical Center. This Special Notice of Intent to Sole Source is for planning purposes only. No solicitation will be made available. This is NOT a request for quotations. All information shall be provided at no cost or obligation to the Government. Responses must be sent via email to the Contracting Specialist at christa.stine@va.gov. Responses received will be evaluated; however, a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon the responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. If no responses are received, Contracting will proceed with the sole source negotiation with Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Who won similar work
19 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 334516.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECKMAN COULTER, INC. | 6 | $11.3M | Oct 2, 2026 |
| GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC | 3 | $1.2M | Sep 24, 2025 |
| FRANKLIN YOUNG INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED | 2 | $394K | Apr 29, 2026 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $1.8M | Jun 12, 2025 |
| TECNIPLAST USA, INC. | 1 | $486K | Sep 11, 2025 |
| MIKROSCAN TECHNOLOGIES INC | 1 | $234K | May 14, 2025 |
| bioMerieux Salt Lake City UT 84108 USA | 1 | $85K | Jun 27, 2025 |
| ADVANCED INSTRUMENTS LLC | 1 | $79K | Sep 2, 2025 |
| VETERANS HEALTHCARE SUPPLY SOLUTIONS, INC | 1 | $50K | Apr 21, 2025 |
| TRILLAMED LLC | 1 | $41K | Sep 22, 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.
- Oct 2, 2026BECKMAN COULTER, INC.$291K6550--Intent to Sole Source | 3 Month Bridge Philadelphia VA Medical Center Laboratory Hematology/Chemistry Testing
- Oct 2, 2026BECKMAN COULTER, INC$6.1M6630--Lab Testing Services for Wilkes-Barre VAMC, PA
- Jun 2, 2026BECKMAN COULTER, INC$227K6550--Lab Automation Preventative Maintenance and Service Beckman Equipment
- Apr 29, 2026FRANKLIN YOUNG INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED$168K6515--Epredia/ThermoFisher Gemini & Excelsior AS Systems
- Nov 11, 2025BECKMAN COULTER, INC$904K6550--Task Order for Lab-In-CP Automated Chemistry, Hematology, and Immunoassay in accordance with SOW and Price Schedule in VA244-17-D-0256
- Sep 24, 2025GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC$87KNGC Quest 10 Plus Chromatography System
- Sep 22, 2025TRILLAMED LLC$41KQuantStudio 3 Real-time PCR System
- Sep 11, 2025TECNIPLAST USA, INC.$486KAward - Tecniplast Animal Racks & Cages
- Sep 10, 2025LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION$26K6515-- | Varioskan Lux | 646
- Sep 5, 2025FRANKLIN YOUNG INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED$226K646-25-2-233-0213 | Brand-Name Only - AB 3500 DX Genetic Analyzer
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
- 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.
- 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.