Sole Source Special Notice / Pre-Solicitation Notice for a project involving contractor-work to be performed on a Tellabs-Based Passive Optical Local Area Network (LAN) Upgrade for the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT)

The Department of Transportation, Immediate Office of the Secretary Transportation, issued a sole-source special notice and pre-solicitation notice on May 22, 2026, for a Tellabs-based Passive Optical Local Area Network upgrade, with a statement-of-qualifications deadline of June 11, 2026. The notice contemplates award to VTG, LLC for a project valued at $239,027.23.

DOT's Office of the Secretary, Departmental Office of Intelligence, Security and Emergency Response, requires modernization of its existing Tellabs-based passive optical LAN, replacing 12-year-old end-of-life hardware while preserving the existing fiber-optic backbone. DOT determined VTG, LLC is the sole capable source based on technical necessity, historical performance, and unique architectural constraints. VTG qualifies as sole source through twelve years of continuous institutional knowledge as the original equipment integrator that designed and installed the system in 2014 and has maintained it continuously since. VTG possesses exclusive expertise in legacy-to-modern migration, guaranteed seamless no-downtime upgrades, continuity of warranty bridging existing and new infrastructure, local proximity in St. Mary's County, Maryland with less-than-30-minute emergency response capability, and specialized high-level authorized integrator rights with Tellabs providing exclusive access to proprietary firmware.

Any entity other than VTG, LLC believing it can perform this work must submit a Statement of Qualifications by 11:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 11, 2026, to james.mowery@dot.gov, Carlos.Marrero@dot.gov, and Leonel.Raba@dot.gov. The contracting activity is the U.S. Department of Transportation/OST Acquisition Services Division, M-63, located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590.