Presolicitation
Medical Courier Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryPresolicitation: the Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contracting Office 9) plans to set aside medical courier services for the Robley Rex VA Medical Center in Louisville, Kentucky 100% for SBA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs). No quotes are accepted yet. The text expects the solicitation in early to mid-November 2026, and SAM.gov lists November 30, 2026, 11:00 AM Central as the response date. More in the summary
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Presolicitation: the Department of Veterans Affairs (Network Contracting Office 9) plans to set aside medical courier services for the Robley Rex VA Medical Center in Louisville, Kentucky 100% for SBA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs). No quotes are accepted yet. The text expects the solicitation in early to mid-November 2026, and SAM.gov lists November 30, 2026, 11:00 AM Central as the response date.
Who can bid
- SBA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB); the buy is anticipated to be set aside 100% for them
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 16, 2026.
- Serious: Only SBA-certified SDVOSBs can bid. Businesses without SBA certification as service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses are expected to be shut out of this buy.
- Worth checking: No quotes accepted yet. This notice is informational only. You must watch SAM.gov for the solicitation and any amendments before you can send a quote.
- Minor: 24/7 STAT service. The contractor must cover round-the-clock urgent and emergency courier runs, which needs drivers and vehicles on call at all hours.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Provide scheduled, supplemental and on-demand courier services, including 24-hour, seven-day-per-week STAT (urgent) and emergency runs
- Pick up, transport and deliver lab specimens, pharmaceuticals, medical records, medical supplies and interoffice mail
- Supply all personnel, vehicles, equipment and supervision
- Serve the Robley Rex VA Medical Center, its community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs) and other Government-designated locations
- Contract type
- Single firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) requirements contract (the Government orders what it needs over the term)
- Period of performance
- Three-year ordering period
- Place of performance
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Estimated value
- Not stated
Not in the notice text
- The Performance Work Statement, pricing schedule, submission requirements, evaluation criteria and award method will be in the solicitation, which is not yet posted
- The response due date for offers is not stated in the text
- Estimated contract value and quantities are not stated
- Which outpatient clinics and other locations are covered is not stated
Eligibility and how to respond
- Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) certified through SBA's VetCert can bid as the prime contractor. Not certified through VetCert yet? Apply on VetCert (SBA), or start with the SDVOSB guide. More open service-disabled veteran-owned set-asides under NAICS 492110
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 16, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- 249-Network Contract Office 9 (36C249), Murfreesboro, TN
- Product/service code
- R602 · Support – Administrative: Courier/Messenger
- Business type
- Transportation, logistics & vehicles (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 492110)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Open SDVOSB set-aside contracts
- SDVOSB and veteran-owned contracts
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, SDVOSB (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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