Brand Name or Equal - BelAir Centrifugal Disc Finishing Machine, Water Treatment and Loop Waste Water Treatment Systems
Veterans Affairs · 246-NETWORK CONTRACTING OFFICE 6 (36C246)
Veterans Affairs wants bids for "Brand Name or Equal - BelAir Centrifugal Disc Finishing Machine, Water Treatment and Loop Waste Water Treatment Systems". The work is in Richmond, VA, USA. The original due date (Sep 14, 2026) has passed; check the latest amendment for the current one. In the last 2 years, similar work (matched on the agency only, a loose match) went to 10 or more companies, usually for about $512K per award. An award could come any day: the usual time to award has passed.
Put together from the facts on this page; the details and sources are below.
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 36C24626Q0983_1 in this department, oldest first.
- Sep 10, 2026 · this noticeSolicitation
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
- Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
- Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.
Recent Agency Awards (Loose Match)
1642 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Veterans Affairs), any industry: a loose match.
Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.
Single-winner award sizes (1622): middle half $101K to $2.6M, median $512K; range $2K to $30.0B.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elevated Technologies Services, LLC | 43 | $249.1M | Sep 16, 2026 |
| Edwards Lifesciences LLC · $EW · $6.5B | 41 | $2.7M + 3 shared | Oct 23, 2026 |
| TK Elevator Corporation | 19 | $91.0M | Sep 17, 2026 |
| Trillamed LLC | 18 | $11.9M | Sep 25, 2026 |
| Alvarez LLC | 16 | $35.2M | Oct 20, 2026 |
| V3GATE, LLC | 14 | $66.7M | Oct 22, 2026 |
| ABBOTT LABORATORIES INC. · $ABT · $45.1B | 10 | $16.9M | Oct 1, 2026 |
| HILL-ROM, INC. | 10 | $16.0M | Oct 1, 2026 |
| SUNRISE MEDICAL (US) LLC | 10 | $287K | Oct 21, 2026 |
| INSPIRE MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. | 10 | $251K | Oct 15, 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 (1 here). 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.
- $EW reported $6.5B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 1622 past awards, $512K, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
- $ABT reported $45.1B revenue (12 months to Mar 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 1622 past awards, $512K, 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.
- Oct 23, 2026BAMAJACK, LLC$285KJ059--Generator Maintenance & load Banking SvcNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 23, 2026Edwards Lifesciences LLC$34K6515--PROS V23 618 UNU BILL & REPLACE 172188 (MI) TAVR (NEED BY 10/27/2026) (VA-27-00017272) 618-Q72787Materiality: <0.01% of $EW revenue (Low) SEC
- Oct 23, 2026MEDTRONIC USA INC$110K6515--SURG IMPLANTS MEDTRONIC 6127RD009,6127RD053,6127RD072No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 23, 2026CARE MERIDIAN ALISO VIEJO 92656$8.5MQ402--Care Meridian Community Nursing Home Services (Reno, NV)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 23, 2026F & C GROUP JV LLC$2.2MY1DA-- NRM-CONST 630A4-17-433 Replace Boiler Plant Main Electrical SwitchgearNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 23, 2026JETT'S SPECIALTY CONTRACTING, LLC$4.9MZ2DA--658-24-102 Replace Building 2 AHUsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 23, 2026Risen Video Production, LLC$3.7MQ502--Copy of LOCUM - Perfusion Services - 626 POP: 10/1/26 - 9/30/27 UCD 9/30/2031 MSO-2026-COM-0021 BOC 2579No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 23, 2026Versiti Blood Health, Inc.$36KQ301--Referral Laboratory Services for Specialized Red Cell Immunohematology TestingNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 23, 2026BLUE ONE SOLUTIONS LLC$151KDA10--Brand Name Active Navigation or Equivalent Discovery Center (VA-27-00000574)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 22, 2026BLISS PHARMACY SERVICES LLC$7.4MVISN 7 Virtual Pharmacy ServicesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
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 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 Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (7 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
- $56K 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
- 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.
- 6 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.
- 2 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 12 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.