Sources Sought
Athletic Trainer (AT) Support personal services - Europe
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army · Sol. PANHCA26P0000033222
The agency plans to award to one named company. Others can only submit a capability statement to challenge it.
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The Medical Acquisition Support Office is asking for interested sources to provide embedded certified Athletic Trainers for US Army Europe (USAREUR) at military installations in Germany and Italy. It is a follow-on to an earlier contract awarded to Cognito Systems LLC. This is a Sources Sought notice, not a solicitation.
Watch out for
- Possible sole-source. If too few firms respond, the Government says it could award without competition.
it is possible that a sole-source contract, supported by a Justification and Approval document, will be issued
- Overseas staffing at scale. The notice calls for 24 people across five installations in Germany and Italy, which means recruiting credentialed staff abroad.
The Contractor shall provide eighteen (18) full-time equivalent (FTE) certified Athletic Trainers (ATs)
- Conflicting staffing numbers and dates. The notice asks for 18 ATs plus 6 Leads in one place but 3 ATs in another, and gives 2026 and 2027 response dates, so the real scope and deadline are unclear.
3 Athletic Trainers personal services, starting 12 May 2027
Read from the notice text only.
Full brief
What they want
- Eighteen (18) full-time certified Athletic Trainers and six (6) Lead Athletic Trainers
- Embedded athletic training services across six Brigades at five installations (Vilseck, Sembach, Baumholder, Grafenwohr and Vicenza)
- Personnel who meet all DoD and Defense Health Agency (DHA) credentialing standards
- A capability statement and company information in response to this notice
- Contract type
- Personal services (per the title); exact contract type not stated
- Period of performance
- Text says starting 12 May 2027 to 11 May 2028 with four years of options
- Place of performance
- Germany (Vilseck, Sembach, Baumholder, Grafenwohr) and Vicenza, Italy
- How they'll choose
- Not applicable; responses are used to plan the acquisition strategy
- Offers due
- 10:00 AM CST, 6 October 2026 per the text; header says 2027-10-06T10:00:00-04:00
- How to submit
- Email to salameya.paulouskaya2.civ@health.mil
- Page limits
- Capability statement limited to ten pages
What to include when you submit
- Include company name, Unique Entity ID, CAGE code and point of contact (phone and email)
- State your socio-economic category for NAICS 611430 (8(a), HUBZone, Women-Owned, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Small, or Other-than-Small)
- Provide a capability statement of no more than ten pages
- The PWS is attached (not visible in this text)
You must have
- Certified Athletic Trainers meeting DoD and DHA credentialing standards
certified Athletic Trainers (ATs) and six (6) Lead Athletic Trainers (Lead ATs) who meet all Department of Defense (DoD) and Defense Health Agency (DHA) credentialing standards
Current contractor
Follow-on to W81K04-21-C-0009, awarded to Cognito Systems LLC.
Not in the notice text
- Full requirements in the attached PWS
- Estimated value
- Whether the requirement is 24 people or 3 athletic trainers
- Which response date is correct (6 October 2026 in the text vs. 2027-10-06 in the header)
- Set-aside status of any future solicitation (header says none)
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 6, 2027, 2:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Sep 25, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Solicitation
- PANHCA26P0000033222
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Army
- Office
- W40M MRC0 West
- NAICS
- 611430
- Product/service code
- Q518
- Business type
- Education & training
- Contracting contact
- Salameya Paulouskayasalameya.paulouskaya2.civ@health.mil
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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