Sources SoughtPosted Jun 20, 2025·Responses due Jun 26, 2025

J036--SPECIAL Elevator Repair

Veterans Affairs · NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 23 (36C263)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
238290
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26325Q0910
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
J036
Place
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Contact
Robert Bennett (robert.bennett8@va.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26325Q0910 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jun 20, 2025 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Jul 2, 2025
    Pre-solicitation
    Open
Solicitation
  • Jul 2, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Jul 2, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Jul 10, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Jul 29, 2025
    Award Notice
    JOHNSONDANFORTH, INC · $38K
    Open

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

The Minneapolis VA Health Care System requires elevator repair services as described in the Statement of Work. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE only looking for businesses to provide the services listed below for market research purposes. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this notice. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS OR PRICING AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS NOTICE. This notice shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Responses to this notice will be treated only as information for the Gov… (show all)

ernment to consider as part of their market research efforts. The information provided will be used by the Government in developing its acquisition strategy regarding possible set aside for Veteran Owned and other socio-economic categories of small business. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this notice and parties responding will not be entitled to payment for direct or indirect costs incurred in responding to this notice. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 238290, Other Building Equipment Contractors, with an SBA Small Business Size Standard of $22.0 Million. Please identify any of your firm s existing contract vehicles (e.g., GSA federal supply schedules) which provide similar services as those described in the Performance Work Statement below. Please provide all socio-economic categories of your firm (e.g., SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB, Large Business, 8a, etc.) as well as your firm s SAM Unique Entity ID number (replaces DUNS number) and Government Contract POC. If you are a vendor capable of providing the requested information and required services described below with competitive pricing, send your information with a description of proof of capability to: robert.bennett8@va.gov on or before 11:00 AM Central Time on June 26, 2025. See attached draft Statement of Work below for details of the requirement. *If applicable, FAR Provision 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting, will apply to the potential solicitation if set-aside for Small-Businesses.* *If applicable, 852.219-76 VA Notice of Limitations on Subcontracting Certificate of Compliance for Supplies and Products, will apply to the potential solicitation if set-aside for Veteran Owned Small-Businesses.* DISCLAIMER This Sources Sought is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this Sources Sought. The deadline for this information is 11:00 AM Central Time on June 26, 2025.

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 23 (36C263)), same product/service code (PSC) J036 and NAICS 238290.

Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $53K to $131K, median $67K; range $38K to $195K.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
JOHNSONDANFORTH, INC2$105KJan 22, 2026
SCHINDLER ELEVATOR CORPORATION1$195KMay 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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 2 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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 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.