Pre-solicitationPosted Jan 14, 2025·Original deadline passed (Jan 24). See latest amendment for current deadline.

6640--Equipment - Dako Artisan Stainer - Ann Arbor

Veterans Affairs · 250-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 10 (36C250)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334516
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
36C25025Q0217
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
6640
Place
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Contact
734-845-3523 (laura.poma@va.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 36C25025Q0217 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jan 14, 2025 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
  • Jan 14, 2025
    Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Jan 30, 2025
    Award Notice
    AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC · $69K
    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 Department of Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System (VAAAHS), 2215 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105 is hereby soliciting offers to provide a ARTISAN LINK PRO SPECIAL STAINS SYSTEM for the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System in Ann Arbor, MI. The VAAAHS anticipates entering into a fixed price contract with the contractor providing the lowest price technically acceptable. This procurement will be conducted using Part 13 of the FAR. NAICS Code is 334516 size standard is 1000 employees. Proposals are due back by 1/24/2025 2PM EST. The anticipated issue date is 1/30/2025; the anticipat… (show all)

ed closing date is March 20, 2025.

Who won similar work

8 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (250-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 10 (36C250)), same product/service code (PSC) 6640 and NAICS 334516.

Single-winner award sizes (8): middle half $36K to $540K, median $179K; range $24K to $1.8M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION3$2.7MApr 30, 2026
BECKMAN COULTER, INC1$532KSep 30, 2025
LI-COR BIOTECH, LLC1$39KJul 28, 2026
HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC · $HBIO · $87.8M1$36KJul 29, 2026
KEYENCE CORPORATION1$35KMay 14, 2026
ABBOTT LABORATORIES INC. · $ABT · $45.1B1$24KJul 23, 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. 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.

Investor context
  • $HBIO reported $87.8M revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 8 past awards, $179K, is 0.2% of that. SEC filing
  • $ABT reported $45.1B revenue (12 months to Mar 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 8 past awards, $179K, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing

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Latest awards

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Competitive landscape

For the 6 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 (5 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
  • $48K 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
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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.

  • 5 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.

  • 2 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 2 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, 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.