R--R416 - Operations and Maintenance of EPA Animal Care Facilities and Veterinary

Most of the buying in this code comes from a few federal offices. The National Institutes of Health's OLAO unit is the largest by dollars, with 549 awards worth $463.37M. MRPBS Minneapolis has the most awards, at 2,073, and USDA APHIS MRPBS, NICHD, NLM, and NIWC Pacific also show up in the top six. The notice does not say how these offices buy, such as through which contract vehicles or purchase methods. Each award has a set-aside code. Most awards are coded NONE (3,571) or have no set-aside recorded (3,123). SBA (558) is the largest set-aside code, and the others are small in count.

The award sizes show a wide gap. The median award is $17.1K, but the total across 7,441 awards is $1.43B, so a relatively small number of large awards makes up much of the value. Across the whole record from FY2001 to FY2027, 406 distinct vendors won work. A firm deciding whether to pursue this code should look closely at whether its target buyer is one of the large-dollar offices or a high-volume office with smaller awards. The notice does not give win rates or the number of bids per solicitation, so competition level cannot be measured from this data alone.

The near-term signals are the 8 active notices and the 425 contracts worth $170.14M that end within 12 months. Those expiring contracts are the most direct sign of where follow-on work may appear, but the notice does not say how many will be recompeted, re-awarded to the same vendor, or left unsolicited. Watch the active notices for which buyers post them and what set-aside codes they carry. Those two details will show whether the mix in this record is holding or shifting.