Pre-solicitationPosted Sep 15, 2026·Responses due Oct 7, 2026

Sterile Processing Service (SPS) Courier Services

Veterans Affairs · 261-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 21 (36C261)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
492110
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C26127Q0045_1
Set-aside
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Set-Aside (FAR 19.14)
PSC
R602
Place
CA, USA
Contact
JAMES POSTELL (JAMES.POSTELL@VA.GOV)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C26127Q0045_1 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 15, 2026 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 29, 2026 to Dec 17, 2026, middle of the range Nov 18, 2026.
Measured from 28 past early notices at Veterans Affairs, Department of with NAICS 492110 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 15, 2026).

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 Contractor shall provide transportation of contaminated medical instruments and equipment for the reprocessing of specified reusable medical equipment from sites within the VA Northern California Health Care System and deliver them to the designated Sterile Processing Service locations in accordance with the specifications contained herein to beneficiaries of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Northern California Health Care System.

Who won similar work

6 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (261-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 21 (36C261)), same product/service code (PSC) R602 and NAICS 492110.

Single-winner award sizes (6): middle half $227K to $738K, median $560K; range $128K to $2.6M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
FG MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC4$3.9MJul 9, 2026
CROSSTOWN COURIER SERVICE INC1$711KAug 27, 2026
CROWN BASED SERVICES LLC1$128KMar 5, 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 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.

  • 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.