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FA8052 773 ESS

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Response status

Historical record

Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC

This notice is no longer open.

Posted
Aug 14, 2026
Archive date
Sep 8, 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

  • FA8052 773 ESS published this sources sought.
  • Competition is listed as No Set aside used.
  • The notice uses NAICS 513199 (All Other Publishers).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
4ade83e554fa4847b139637259bdfcab
Solicitation
FA80522608142026
Base type
Sources Sought
Version
2 of 2

Solicitation facts

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

Notice type
Sources Sought
Solicitation number
FA80522608142026
NAICS
513199 — All Other Publishers
PSC
7630 — NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
Set-aside
No Set aside used
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Aug 14, 2026
Responses due
Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Sep 8, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Sources Sought
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Aug 29, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
DEPT OF DEFENSE
Department code
—
Subagency
DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE
Subagency code
—
Office
FA8052 773 ESS
Organization path
—
Organization path codes
—
Office address
SAN ANTONIO, TX, 78236-0119, USA
Place of performance
—
City code
—
State
—
State code
—
Postal code
—
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

The Department of the Air Force (DAF), through the 772d Enterprise Sourcing Squadron, is seeking willing and capable businesses that can provide one (1) base year for Base Subscriptions for DoD Libraries. The Department of the Air Force requires the procurement of magazines to 65 base libraries and their office locations. This will be various requested subscriptions to libraries and their offices shipped directly from the publishers. DAF Libraries is looking for an established distributor of magazines in the library and commercial marketplace.

Comparable award range

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

Low end (p25)$72,834
Median$118,056
High end (p75)$357,600
Comparable awards
3
Median
$118,056
Computed
Aug 18, 2026
Rubric
comparables@2026.08.1
Comparable award values describe completed contracts. They do not state the government's budget and are not a bid recommendation.

Comparable awards

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

AwardContractorValueAwardedScoreWhy it matched
EO 14398-ADDRESSING DEI DISCRIMINATION BY FEDERAL CONTRACTORSRELX INC.$597,144.00Jul 8, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
SEAWEB SHIPS DATABASE SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL, FOR UP TO 10 SIMULTANEOUS USERS, FOR THE PERIOIHS GLOBAL INC$27,611.88Jul 31, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DOCKETS RETRIEVAL SERVICE (COURT EXPRESS) EXERCISE OPTION YEAR 2WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION$118,056.00May 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)

Amendment history

A version is preserved whenever the normalized notice contents change.

VersionNotice typeObservedResponses dueContent hash
1Sources SoughtAug 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC705bc6944dce53dc
2Sources SoughtAug 28, 2026Aug 24, 2026, 7:00 PM UTCbc833b8bba01524c

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 Aug 29, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 3 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Aug 18, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.
  3. 3Only 3 comparable awards were found. The range describes those records, not the market.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record; note 2 covers the comparable range; note 3 describes sample size. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.