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The finished review: 36C24E27Q0011, Supine to Seated or Standing Lumbar Spine MRI Scan Services, responses due November 10.
A more technical example: EXTENDED TERM TIME CHARTER / CONSOLIDATED CARGO OPERATIONS (CONSOL) CAPABLE COMBINATION CONTAINER/BREAKBULK VESSEL
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From the notice
DESCRIPTION This is a Sources Sought Notice issued solely for information and planning purposes. This notice is intended to identify potential sources that possess the capabilities, experience, and resources necessary to provide the services described herein. This is not a solicitation and shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or award a contract. Regional Procurement Office (RPO) East, is conducting market research to determine the availability of qualified sources capable of providing specialized lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan services in support of a VA research study. The purpose of this notice is to determine the availability of qualified small and large business concerns and to assist the Government in acquisition planning, including potential socioeconomic set-aside considerations. Interested firms are encouraged to identify their business size and socioeconomic status. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 621512, Diagnostic Imaging Centers. Responses to this Sources Sought Notice will be used for market research purposes only. Responses are not considered offers and will not be evaluated for award. Interested parties must respond separately to any future solicitation announcement. There is no solicitation at this time. The Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred in responding to this notice. Interested parties shall not submit pricing information. Questions regarding this notice shall be submitted via email to [email address]. From 36C24E27Q0011_1.docx, word for word: "The scanning facility shall possess MRI equipment capable of imaging subjects in both supine and weight-bearing (standing or seated) positions." The rest is in the attachment, 9,364 characters: 1. 36C24E27Q0011_1.docx (9,364 characters)
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What it means
This is a Sources Sought Notice (36C24E27Q0011_1.docx), not a solicitation. The VA Veterans Health Administration Regional Procurement Office East (Pittsburgh, PA) is doing market research for specialized lumbar spine MRI services supporting a VA research...
Mandatory
Business size under NAICS 621512 and all socioeconomic classifications must be identified, along with business structure and SAM status. Firms claiming a designation must also give the certification program and status...
Watch out
Not an offer opportunity: this is a Sources Sought Notice. No award can result from a response, and a separate response to any future solicitation is required.
Timeline
The description is SAM.gov's own, word for word, with contact details left out, and the attachments are as posted: 36C24E27Q0011, Supine to Seated or Standing Lumbar Spine MRI Scan Services, posted November 3, responses due November 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM EST. The button opens the finished review of it. The quoted line is from one of its documents, found there word for word.
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The checklist
Up to forty requirements, the disqualifying ones first, each with a Show the source link to the sentence it came from. Export it as a spreadsheet or a Word document.
The web app: a checklist built on 9 October 2026 from a real Marine Corps solicitation, M67854-26-R-3007. Everything in Read it.
At a glance
Whether it is worth your timeEssential
Strong match, worth a look or probably not on every notice, with the reasons: your codes, your set-asides, your registration and the clock.
Who keeps winning work like itProfessional
Who won before, what they were paid and how many offers the agency usually gets, from the public award record.
The day it changesEssential
A moved deadline, a changed set-aside, a cancellation or new attachments, told in plain words.
One email each morningEssential
What closes soon, what changed and what needs you today, and nothing at all on the days nothing does.
A checklist that quotes the solicitationEssential
Up to forty requirements that decide acceptance, each with the sentence it came from, the disqualifying ones first.
What it read, and what it did not
Beside every review: which attachments it read in full, which in part, and which it never opened.
How it reads a solicitation, step by step: what it opens, what it quotes, and what it admits it did not read. Or watch the 22-minute guide, the website and the phone app in use from creating an account to recording a win.
The four jobs
Search is the first step. The work that loses bids happens after you have found the notice.
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Open federal notices from SAM.gov, filtered by NAICS, agency and set-aside, plus Grants.gov grants, DoD SBIR and STTR topics, DLA DIBBS requests for quotation and bids from eight state and local portals. An alert that catches far too much, or nothing at all, says so.
02
The attachments, not the summary. The shall, must and required lines that decide whether a bid is accepted, each with the sentence it came from, and the disqualifying ones marked. Then the proposal: an outline from the checklist, and on Professional a first draft from your own record.
03
Strong match, worth a look, or probably not, traceable to your own profile. Amendment watch reports the day a deadline moves.
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Who won, what they were paid, and what work like this normally costs, including on the bids you lost.
How some of this is sold
Because much of it is sold to capture teams. On several products in this category the price is quoted on a demo call, and the feature set assumes you have a proposal department.
That model works if you have one. If you are three people deciding tonight whether a contract is worth an evening, it was never built for you.
What we do
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Who built it
I spent over a decade in public-sector data, as a principal statistician, a business intelligence analyst in capital planning, a certified IT database administrator, and a data quality assurance specialist. I've worked with government budgets and contracts from the inside, and my job was making sure the data was right. InstantSam brings that to federal solicitations: it reads the attachments themselves, flags what could disqualify you, and tells you when a notice changes. If a review ever gets something wrong, email me at talktomoses@instantsam.com.
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