Sources SoughtPosted Oct 7, 2026·Responses due Dec 9, 2026

R499--Small Business Event | 2026 National Veterans Small Business Engagement | Cleveland Ohio Dec 8-9 | Amendment 15

Veterans Affairs · OFFICE OF SMALL & DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION (OSDBU) (36U101)

Stage

Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)

NAICS

621910

Value

Not stated

Solicitation

36U10126Q0023

Set-aside

None stated

PSC

R499

Place

Not stated

Contact

Direct Access Program (DAP) (DirectAccess@va.gov)

…Open on SAM.gov

CSV Email

Capture briefs (a one-page, shareable copy of this page) are part of Pro. The CSV here holds the notice, its timeline and past awards.

Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36U10126Q0023 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice

Sep 28, 2026
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Sep 28, 2026
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Sep 29, 2026
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Sep 29, 2026
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Sep 29, 2026
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Sep 30, 2026
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Sep 30, 2026
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Oct 1, 2026
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Oct 1, 2026
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Oct 2, 2026
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Oct 2, 2026
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Oct 5, 2026
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Oct 6, 2026
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Oct 6, 2026
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Oct 7, 2026
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Oct 7, 2026 · this notice
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Oct 7, 2026
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Solicitation

None posted

Award

Not yet. Typical award: Nov 26, 2026 to Mar 7, 2027, middle of the range Dec 23, 2026.

Measured from 39 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of with NAICS 621910 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 28, 2026).

Responses are due Dec 9, 2026, so an award before then is unlikely; past cases include short solicitations.

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

1. PURPOSE: This amendment is being issued to reference an additional industry NAICS code that is closely associated with the specific communities of interest (COI), as a means of overcoming a functional limitation of SAM.gov, and maximize the reach of this announcement. All other information remains unchanged by this amendment.

Who won similar work

67 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), same NAICS 621910.

Winner	Awards	Value	Last
RELIANCE MEDICAL TRANSPORT, LLC	4	$51.9M	Dec 2, 2025
LIFEFLEET SOUTHEAST INC	4	$18.9M	Oct 1, 2026
JOURNEY VIA GURNEY, LLC	2	$41.7M	Jun 4, 2026
MEDEX MEDICAL TRANSPORT SERVICE INC	2	$18.4M	Aug 12, 2025
OHIO AMBULANCE SOLUTIONS, LLC	2	$17.1M	Jan 12, 2026
MIDWEST MEDICAL TRANSPORT COMPANY	2	$14.9M	Jul 30, 2026
L-J-L TRUCKING, INC	2	$5.3M	Aug 31, 2026
JAN-CARE AMBULANCE SERVICE TRI-STATE DIVISION INC	2	$2.3M	Oct 1, 2025
AMBULANCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED	2	$1.8M	Oct 2, 2025
AIR EMS INC	2	$1.3M	Oct 7, 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

Oct 7, 2026AIR EMS INC$985KFIXED WING AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE
Oct 7, 2026ROYAL AMBULANCE INC$9.0MV225--Ground Ambulance Transportation Services for VASFHCS
Oct 1, 2026AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE OF NEW YORK, LLC$665KV225--OY1 NP Ambulance Transportation
Oct 1, 2026LIFEFLEET SOUTHEAST INC$17.0MV225--FY27 ALS/BLS Ambulance Services BASE YEAR
Sep 23, 2026PROCARE AMBULANCE OF MARYLAND, INC$6.9MV225--Ground Ambulance - Washington DC VA Medical Center
Aug 31, 2026L-J-L TRUCKING, INC$508KV119--Altoona WC Van Transport
Aug 21, 2026SPIRIT MEDICAL TRANSPORT LLC$5.0MV225--Ambulance Service (Columbus)
Aug 13, 2026HVM ASSOCIATES LLC$9.6MV225--BLS/SCT Ambulance Services (VA-26-00046671)
Aug 11, 2026TECHS INC$750KV222--EKHCS Ambulance Services
Aug 4, 2026GLOBAL LOGISTIC LLC$1.5MV225--ALS/BLS Ambulance and Wheelchair Van Transports for New Castle & Area Counties in DE, PA, and NJ

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

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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.

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

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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.

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