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Notice of Intent to Sole Source

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY · Bluemont, Virginia

Response status

Due in 9 days

Sep 19, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC

Responses remain open.

Posted
Sep 4, 2026
Archive date
Oct 4, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY published this special notice.
  • The place of performance is Bluemont, Virginia.
  • The notice uses NAICS 334513 (Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
78949a46399a48aa85a696799ececa26
Solicitation
AWOSMT2026
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
AWOSMT2026
PSC
Set-aside
Set-aside code
Posted
Sep 4, 2026
Responses due
Sep 19, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Oct 4, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Special Notice
Organization type
AGENCY
Benchmark category
Category confidence
Category source
Last seen
Sep 11, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
HOMELAND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF
Department code
Subagency
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Subagency code
Office
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Organization path
Organization path codes
Office address
Place of performance
Bluemont, Virginia
City code
State
Virginia
State code
VA
Postal code
Country

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

This notice is to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) intent to award a sole-source contract to DBT Transportation Services, LLC, for an Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS). FEMA proposes to procure the lifecycle replacement of the current AWOS to ensure mission capabilities. This requirement will result in a firm-fixed contract. The statutory authority for this non-competitive action is 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1) as implemented by Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFP) Part 6.103-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This determination is made on the following basis: DBT Transportation Services, LLC is the only manufacturer listed on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) website with systems model approved by the FAA. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this requirement is 334513 THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR Quote. Interested parties have fifteen (15) days from the date of publication of the Synopsis, to submit in writing, to the identified point of contact, clear and convincing evidence of their qualifications and/or capabilities (page limit: 2). Such qualifications and/or capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Responses received after fifteen (15) days, or without the required information, will be considered non-responsive to this synopsis and will not be considered. A determination by the Government not to conduct this effort as a full-and-open competitive procurement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the Government's discretion. In the absence of qualified sources, a contract will be awarded under the Other than Full and Open Competition procedures, pursuant to 41 United States Code (U.S.C.) 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1) as implemented by Federal Acquisition (FAR) 6.103-1, Only One Responsible Source. All inquiries must be submitted in writing to the address stated herein and to the attention of Mr. Michael Bonds and Ms. Arlene Warren, Contracting Officer. Response to this notice must be received NLT September 19, 2026, 12:00 P.M. Eastern Time. Responses must include your business name, point of contact, address, and telephone number with area code. Telephonic inquiries will not be accepted. Responses may be emailed to michael.bonds@fema.dhs.gov and arlene.warren@fema.dhs.gov

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.

Comparable awards are scored on benchmark category, product and service code, industry code, buyer, place, recency, and contract type. Rubric version comparables@2026.08.1.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Sep 11, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 0 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Sep 7, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record; note 2 covers the comparable range. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.

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