Sources SoughtPosted Aug 6, 2026·Responses due Aug 10, 2026

Temperature Monitoring System

Agriculture (all) · MRPBS MINNEAPOLIS MN

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334290
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
12639526Q0199SSN
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
Not stated
Contact
Jason L Wilking (Jason.L.Wilking@usda.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 12639526Q0199SSN in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 4, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
  • Aug 6, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Aug 20, 2026 to Oct 6, 2026, middle of the range Sep 4, 2026.
Measured from 65 past early notices at Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 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.

  • 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 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Centers for Animal Health (NCAH) is conducting this Sources Sought to identify small business contractors who possess the capabilities to provide a Temperature Monitoring System (TMS), system to monitor critical laboratory environments, including ultra-low temperature units, refrigerators, freezers, incubators, water baths, CO2 levels, humidity and Ln2 Liquid Nitrogen tanks. The system will require 1,150 temperature probes installed in laboratories, instruments and equipment. The system will require a transmission system that is cellular capab… (show all)

le, able to transmit through concrete walls and will span across the entirety of the 520 acre NCAH campus. The USDA will require system training and ongoing oversight of the system, preventive maintenance, operational verification, testing and calibration after installation. If your firm may be interested in this requirement and is a qualified small business for the NAICS code 334290 (800 employees) according to https://www.sba.gov/document/support-table-size-standards and has performed similar projects. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. As permitted by FAR Part 10, this is a market research tool being utilized for informational and planning purposes. Your responses will assist the Government in the development of its acquisition strategy for a possible Request for Quotes (RFQ), to be issued later, and in determining whether any type of small business set-aside is possible for this procurement or whether full and open competitive procedures should be utilized. This notice shall not be construed as a request for quote (RFQ) or as any commitment or obligation on the part of the Government to issue a solicitation. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on this request, so quotes will not be considered. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow-up information requests. Response is strictly voluntary - it is not mandatory to submit a response to this notice to participate in any request for quote process that may take place in the future. However, it should be noted that information gathered through this notice may significantly influence our acquisition strategy. All interested parties will be required to respond separately to any solicitations posted because of this source sought notice. Submission Instructions: The respondent should email Jason.L.wilking@USDA.gov and provide Company name, point of contact, SAM unique Entity ID and general temperature monitoring system information or other information that may be helpful in developing the acquisition strategy. Responses due, no later than August 10, 2026. 11 am CDT. Late responses will not be accepted. This posting is only market research, and the Government will not entertain any questions.

Who won similar work

5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Agriculture (all)), same industry group (NAICS 3342).

Single-winner award sizes (5): middle half $26K to $83K, median $62K; range $18K to $1.7M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
RELM COMMUNICATIONS, INC.2$1.7MSep 10, 2025
LOTEK WIRELESS INC.1$83KSep 22, 2025
YELLOWSTONE ELECTRIC CO Billings MT 59101 USA1$26KJun 24, 2025
BK TECHNOLOGIES INC · $BKTI · $76.6M1$18KOct 8, 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
  • $BKTI reported $76.6M revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 5 past awards, $62K, 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 4 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 Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) 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
  • 132 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
  • 0 insider buys and 0 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.