$499 Million Without a Solicitation
The weekend's procurement record: an Alaska research center's vehicle quadruples on a justification, a Marine Corps advisory pool nearly doubles its ceiling without competing it, and White Sands gave industry four days to answer a sole-source notice on a contract that dies August 31.
Friday afternoon the Army posted a notice saying it intends to buy mission support at White Sands Missile Range without competing it, and gave industry until 1:00pm Central on Tuesday to say otherwise.
That is 4.1 days. The contract underneath it stops on August 31.
The Four-Day Clock at White Sands
The notice is PANMCC-26-P-0000-054102, posted by MICC Field Directorate Fort Cavazos at 15:22 UTC Friday, with a draft PWS attached and no intended awardee named. It describes a proposed sole-source CPFF contract covering White Sands, the 704th Test Group at Holloman, the Center for Countermeasures and the NAVSEA Port Hueneme detachment at the range, citing 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(1) as implemented at FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii).
The award record says the current contract, W9115119C0008, went to Southwest Range Services LLC with $454,605,807 obligated against a $558.7 million base-and-all-options value, coded full and open competition on six offers. Its period of performance ends August 31 with no option runway behind it.
A follow-on already exists: W51EW7-26-C-A001, same holder, base period opening July 18, 2026, announced in February on three proposals. A sole-source notice landing six weeks into that base period is either scope the new contract does not carry or a gap somebody found late, and the four-day window is the tell either way (chart below).
Fifty-five DoD sources-sought notices posted between Friday morning and Sunday morning, median time to respond 7.0 days. Twenty-eight shut at or inside that.
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