Subscription to a Mathematical Bibliographic and Expert Reviews Database
Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST
Commerce is planning to buy "Subscription to a Mathematical Bibliographic and Expert Reviews Database". This is an early notice: it is not taking bids yet. The work is in Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Responses are due Oct 29, 2026. In the last 2 years, similar work went to 5 companies, usually for about $78K per award. An award is expected between December 2026 and February 2027.
Put together from the facts on this page; the details and sources are below.
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation SS-NB135000-27-00002 in this department, oldest first.
- Oct 23, 2026 · this noticeSources Sought
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.
Who won similar work
5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST), same NAICS 513210.
Single-winner award sizes (5): middle half $64K to $90K, median $78K; range $34K to $879K.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC. · $FDS · $2.5B | 1 | $879K | Aug 24, 2026 |
| HEXAGON MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE, INC. | 1 | $90K | Sep 4, 2025 |
| CHMURA ECONOMICS & ANALYTICS, LLC | 1 | $78K | Sep 16, 2026 |
| Synegen, Inc | 1 | $64K | Mar 11, 2025 |
| BUBBLERAN Biot 06410 FRA | 1 | $34K | Sep 28, 2026 |
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Notices whose amount is a placeholder such as $999,999,999 are not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
- $FDS reported $2.5B revenue (fiscal year ending Aug 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 5 past awards, $78K, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.
- Sep 28, 2026BUBBLERAN Biot 06410 FRA$34KOpen RAN Cellular End-to-End System Software and SupportNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 16, 2026CHMURA ECONOMICS & ANALYTICS, LLC$78KManufacturing Data Analysis and Modeling ToolsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Aug 24, 2026FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC.$879KEnterprise Financial and Market Intelligence PlatformMateriality: 0.04% of $FDS revenue (Low) SEC
- Sep 4, 2025HEXAGON MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE, INC.$90KAward Notice Spatial Analyzer Software Maintenance AgreementNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Mar 11, 2025Synegen, Inc$64KLearning Management System for Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.
Competitive landscape
For the 5 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
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
- 378 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. 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
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, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.