DARPA Modernization Project: Request for Qualifications for A&E Services
DARPA · DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation HR001126RE008 in this department, oldest first.
- Sep 22, 2026 · this noticeSpecial Notice
- Oct 2, 2026Special NoticeOpen
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
- Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
- Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.
What the notice says
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) requires Contractor support for architecture and engineering services for the DARPA Modernization Project. This announcement constitutes a public notice of intent to contract for Architect-Engineer (A&E) Services in accordance with RFO FAR Part 5 and Part 36, and DFARS Subpart 236.6. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an Invitation for Bids (IFB). Neither cost proposals nor price quotations are requested or will be accepted at this stage. Contract award will be made using qualification-based selection procedures established under t… (show all)
he Brooks Act (40 U.S.C. Chapter 11) and FAR Subpart 36.6. This requirement will be conducted as a Total Small Business Set-Aside. All interested parties should review this notice, and all attachments, in its entirety, and provide a completed SF 330 in accordance identified in the attached Public Announcement Notice.
Who won similar work
71 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (DARPA), any industry: a loose match.
Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 4 | $30.4M | Sep 25, 2025 |
| SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC | 4 | $21.0M | Nov 4, 2025 |
| Two Six Labs, LLC | 3 | $27.4M | Oct 9, 2026 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL | 3 | $23.6M | Mar 5, 2025 |
| SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park CA 94025 USA | 3 | $16.0M | Sep 2, 2025 |
| KITWARE INC | 2 | $17.7M | May 22, 2025 |
| LEIDOS, INC. · $LDOS | 2 | $14.3M | Feb 18, 2025 |
| STEALTH SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 2 | $13.6M | Jul 25, 2025 |
| HRL LABORATORIES, LLC | 2 | $12.8M | May 1, 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | 2 | $11.7M | Jun 30, 2025 |
Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.
- Oct 9, 2026Two Six Labs, LLC$1.5MHR001127CE008-Surveillance and Prediction from Research-Industrial Signatures: Part II (SurPRISE Part II) seedling
- Oct 5, 2026REAGAN-UDALL FOUNDATION FOR THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, INC.$1.2MHR001126CE092 Biological Technologies
- Sep 3, 2026Guidehouse Inc.$61.3MMulti X Office (MXO01) Operations Support Services
- Jun 23, 2026NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$1.4MIndependent Commercialization Generative Optogenetics
- Jun 23, 2026ENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM Emeryville CA 94608 USA$1.2MBiosecurity Working Group Generative Optogenetics
- May 11, 2026RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Fairfax VA 22033 USA$735KHR001126CE068 Code-to-model Analysis Ready for Verification Engines (CARVE)
- May 1, 2026HRL LABORATORIES, LLC$3.9MHR001121C0043 High Enthalpy Aperture Technology (HEAT)
- Feb 23, 2026LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$4.7MSecuring Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER)
- Feb 6, 2026BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION & ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC$3.9MSecuring Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER)
- Nov 4, 2025SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC$5.7MHR001121C0212 Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-wide
Competitive landscape
For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.
- 0 of these past winners lobbied Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since 2024 (0 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) job
- $319K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Armed Services
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
Policy around it
Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.
- 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
- 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
- 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
Market
For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.
- 1 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 2 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.
Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.