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Wheatstone Notice of Intent to Sole Source/Synopsis

HQ DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY · Maryland, 20755

Response status

Historical record

Sep 4, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

This notice is no longer open.

Posted
Sep 1, 2026
Archive date
Sep 19, 2026
SAM status
Active
This is a preserved solicitation record. The response window is closed because the published deadline passed.

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • HQ DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY published this special notice.
  • Competition is listed as Small Business Set-Aside - Total.
  • The place of performance is Maryland.
  • The notice uses NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
463a77473a9240e8981b2090b7823280
Solicitation
HQ0516-26-S0001
Base type
Special Notice
Version
1 of 1

Solicitation facts

Structured fields from the current SAM notice version. A dash means the source did not publish a value.

Notice type
Special Notice
Solicitation number
HQ0516-26-S0001
Set-aside
Small Business Set-Aside - Total
Set-aside code
SBA
Posted
Sep 1, 2026
Responses due
Sep 4, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Sep 19, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Special Notice
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
Engineering Services
Category confidence
92%
Category source
rule
Last seen
Sep 5, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
DEPT OF DEFENSE
Department code
Subagency
DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY (DMA)
Subagency code
Office
HQ DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY
Organization path
Organization path codes
Office address
FORT MEADE, MD, 20755, USA
Place of performance
Maryland, 20755
City code
State
Maryland
State code
MD
Postal code
20755
Country

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

In accordance with FAR 5.203(a)(1) and FAR 13.105(a)(1), an expedited three (3) business day response period has been established for this updated notice due to fiscal year-end procurement lead-time constraints and the necessity to avoid a lapse in mission-critical technical support for the AFN Broadcast Center transition. Furthermore, the Government previously synopsized this core requirement from 07 August 2026 to 14 August 2026, during which zero expressions of interest were received.

Comparable award range

Historical award values for work matched by the fixed rubric—not an estimate of this opportunity.

No past awards scored highly enough to form a comparable range.

Comparable awards

The match score is decomposed so each comparison can be challenged.

No comparable awards are attached to this notice.

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

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Sources and method

Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Sep 5, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.

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