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Customs and Border Protection · AIR AND MARINE CONTRACTING DIVISION
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 20160316 in this department, oldest first.
- Sep 3, 2026 · this noticePre-solicitation
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.
Who won similar work
3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Customs and Border Protection), same industry group (NAICS 3342).
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · $LHX | 1 | $7.5M | Oct 1, 2025 |
| Trailblazer Innovations Inc. | 1 | $938K | Oct 14, 2025 |
| G3 TECHNOLOGIES INC | 1 | $282K | Sep 14, 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.
- Sep 14, 2026G3 TECHNOLOGIES INC$282KUS Border Patrol Network Equipment
- Oct 14, 2025Trailblazer Innovations Inc.$938KSole Source Justification for CBP Friendly Force Tracking (FFT) Program Support
- Oct 1, 2025L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$7.5MCBP NVG sole source- 20153369
Competitive landscape
For the 3 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 U.S. Customs & Border Protection since 2024 (5 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past U.S. Customs & Border Protection job
- $152K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Homeland Security, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 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.
- 7 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
- 24 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.
- 1 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.