Skip to content
  • 6,816 federal solicitations are open right now. How many of them are yours?
  • New solicitations are posted every day. The ones you never saw are the ones you cannot win.
  • Stop checking SAM.gov every morning. Let the contracts that fit your business come to you.
  • Tell Abierto what you sell in one sentence. AI reads every open solicitation for you.
  • Deadlines are short. Hear about a solicitation the day it is posted, not the week it closes.
  • Amendments move deadlines. Watch a solicitation and Abierto tells you when it changes.
  • See which contracts in your field are about to end, and who holds them today.
  • Plans from $39 a month. See your matches before you pay.
See plans
AbiertoGet started

Sources sought

Vertical Transportation Equipment (VTE): Maintenance, Repair, and Inspection at Aviano Air Base, Italy

FA568227VTESERVICE

Department of the Air Force, FA5682 31 Cons (Unit 6102). Facilities Support Services.

Response deadline

September 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT

Closed 31 days ago. Posted September 1, 2026. Scheduled to archive October 15, 2026.

Get the next one like this from Department of the Air Force by email, the day it is posted.Find my opportunities

This one closed 31 days ago

36 like it are open now in facilities support services

All 36 open in facilities support services

Description

As published on SAM.gov.

This Sources Sought is being issued in accordance with RFO Part 10, Market Research. It is for
information, planning and market research purposes only and shall not be construed as either a solicitation
or obligation on the part of the US Air Force. The US Air Force will use this market research information
to assess the market's capability to successfully meet the Air Force's requirements for the acquisition of
services relating to Vertical Transportation Equipment: Maintenance, Repair, and Inspection.


Please see attached draft PWS for reference requirements.


This acquisition of maintenance, repair and inspection services of the VTE is required for 5 years with a
possible six-month extension. Parties interested in submission of a valid quote must have the Italian
Chamber of Commerce Certificate to demonstrate they operate in the VTE maintenance, repair and
inspection business sector.


Estimated Date for solicitation posting is October 2026


The Air Force welcomes responses from all interested parties

See attachments for additional details.

Attachments

Files listed on SAM.gov. The ones we hold a copy of download from here; the rest open SAM's download, which needs no account.

Publications

Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.

  1. September 1, 2026

    Sources sought

    Due September 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT. SAM.gov, notice 068f61d9f05143d08ccc4f954d29c46b

    1 revisions on SAM
    • September 1, 2026: publish, sources sought

Points of contact