The Department of Veterans Affairs runs one of the largest health systems in the country, and many VA medical centers operate on premise laundries that process healthcare textiles for the wards. When that equipment is replaced, the purchase posts as a federal solicitation with a healthcare sanitation standard attached.
Where the work posts
A VA laundry equipment purchase posts on SAM.gov, classified under the commercial laundry equipment manufacturing code 333312 and the laundry and dry cleaning equipment product service code 3510. The solicitation sets the capacity, the washer extractors and dryers, the thermal disinfection for healthcare textiles, and the brand name or equal terms.
What decides the award
A VA laundry award turns on the sanitation validation, the domestic content under the Buy American Act and the Trade Agreements Act, and whether the work is set aside under the Veterans First program for veteran owned or service disabled veteran owned small business. The agent flags the disinfection terms, the domestic content, the set aside, and the approved equal data.
How the agent handles it
Our agent monitors SAM.gov by the laundry codes, pulls each VA medical center solicitation, reads the specification including the sanitation and domestic content terms, and scores the fit against your healthcare laundry lines and your federal registration. It surfaces the set aside status so you know whether you can compete.
The agent reads the healthcare and federal terms that decide a VA laundry award and puts them on one screen. See the federal and military laundry bid agent in the interactive demo.