CELLPHONE SERVICES FOR U.S. EMBASSY MANILA, PHILIPPINES
State · EMBASSY MANILA
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 19RP3825Q0008 in this department, oldest first.
- Nov 8, 2024 · this noticePre-solicitation
- Apr 22, 2025Award NoticeSMART COMMUNICATIONS, INC. · $1.4MOpen
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
Please note this solicitation is not ready to be issued as of this date. The Embassy of the United States in the Philippines will launch the solicitation on SAM.gov website when it is available. This Solicitation is for the Cellphone Services for the Embassy of the United States of America in Manila, Philippines. This is a firm-fixed-price type contract. The anticipated performance period is for a base year, with four one-year options, and one six-month option, if exercised by the Government. All responsible sources may submit a quotation, which will be considered. The Government plans to issu… (show all)
e the solicitation on or about end of November 2024. The proposal due date will be set forth in the solicitation. The Government is planning a pre-quotation conference and the date for this conference will be in the solicitation. All contractors shall be registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) Database https://sam.gov/content/home prior to submitting an offer pursuant to FAR provision 52.204-7. Therefore, prospective offerors are required to register prior to the submittal of proposals. The guidelines for registration in SAM are also available at: https://www.fsd.gov/fsd-gov/learning-center-system.do?sysparm_system=SAM Electronic Submission/Responses: This opportunity allows for electronic responses. Please submit your offer via email to ManilaContracting@state.gov prior to the response date and time. It is important to make sure the submission is made in specific size and format; in MS-Word 2007/2010 or MS-Excel 2007/2010 or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file format. The file size must not exceed 10MB. If the file size should exceed the 10MB, the submission must be made in separate files and attached to separate emails with less than 10MB each.
Who won similar work
5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (State), same product/service code (PSC) DG11.
Single-winner award sizes (5): middle half $233K to $1.8M, median $800K; range $29K to $3.0M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANCED WIRELESS NETWORK COMPANY | 1 | $3.0M | Oct 20, 2024 |
| ORANGE SA BURKINA FASO Ouagadougou BFA | 1 | $1.8M | Sep 26, 2025 |
| VIETTEL BURUNDI SA Bujumbura BDI | 1 | $800K | Jan 15, 2026 |
| Telia Mobil Danmark A/S Kobenhavn S DNK | 1 | $233K | Mar 7, 2025 |
| RED ORANGE NORTH AMERICA INC. | 1 | $29K | Apr 20, 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.
- Apr 20, 2026RED ORANGE NORTH AMERICA INC.$29KStarlink Mini Terminals and Accessories
- Jan 15, 2026VIETTEL BURUNDI SA Bujumbura BDI$800KCell phone services for U.S. Embassy Bujumbura, Burundi
- Sep 26, 2025ORANGE SA BURKINA FASO Ouagadougou BFA$1.8MMobile telephone services for U.S. Embassy Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Mar 7, 2025Telia Mobil Danmark A/S Kobenhavn S DNK$233KMobile Phone Services U.S. Embassy Copenhagen, Denmark
- Oct 20, 2024ADVANCED WIRELESS NETWORK COMPANY$3.0MBangkok Cellphone Services
Competitive landscape
For the 5 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 State, Dept of (DOS) since 2024 (0 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past State, Dept of (DOS) job
- No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
- 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.
- 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
- 33 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.
- 0 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.