Combined Synopsis/SolicitationPosted Aug 4, 2026·Responses due Aug 17, 2026

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Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST

Stage
Open solicitation
NAICS
334516
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
NB672020-26-02299
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
6650
Place
Not stated
Contact
Not stated
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation NB672020-26-02299 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 14, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
  • Aug 4, 2026 · this notice
    Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 4, 2026 to Nov 13, 2026, middle of the range Oct 1, 2026.
Measured from 27 past solicitations at National Institute of Standards and Technology with NAICS 334516 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 4, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
  • Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
  • Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST), same product/service code (PSC) 6650 and NAICS 334516.

Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $125K to $1.1M, median $144K; range $107K to $2.1M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC2$2.3MSep 24, 2026
ZYGO CORPORATION · $AME · $6.6B1$107KSep 22, 2026

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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Investor context
  • $AME reported $6.6B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 3 past awards, $144K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K

One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 2 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 Commerce, Dept of (DOC) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Commerce, Dept of (DOC) job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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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
  • 372 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 1 insider buys and 1 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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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.