Special NoticePosted Aug 21, 2026·Original deadline passed (Aug 24). See latest amendment for current deadline.

Notice of Intent for NIH/NIA GraphPad Prism Subscription Renewal

Health and Human Services (all) · OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION (ASA)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541519
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
PCA-NIA-06255
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
7A21
Place
Bethesda, MD, USA
Contact
Leah Hinson (leah.hinson@hhs.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation PCA-NIA-06255 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 21, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (0 found; 10 needed).

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

THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT, NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES. A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND QUOTES WILL NOT BE REQUESTED. The National Institute of Health National Institute on Aging (NIA) intends to award a firm fixed price sole source contract under the authority of FAR 12.102(a), only one source being available to meet the Government's needs, to: GraphPad Software, LLC 225 Franklin St FL 26 Boston, MA, 02110 The NIA hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order for Prism Group Academic Yearly S… (show all)

ubscription with 300 activations for their Intramural Research Program (IRP). The Computational Biology and Genomics Core (CBGC) requires a comprehensive, powerful, and user-friendly statistical and graphing software license subscription for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Intramural Research Program (IRP). Most NIA-IRP research scientists need intuitive statistical and graphing software that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Excel. Prism offers a familiar, Excel-like interface and is specifically designed for the types of analyses experimental scientists perform. GraphPad Prism tracks and organizes a scientist�s work in a unique way, linking data, graphs, and analyses together. Changes in data automatically update all related analyses and graphs. Prism includes help and teaching information to guide a scientist in choosing a statistical test and creating the appropriate graph. Purchasing an institute-wide license will benefit the majority of experimental scientists at NIA-IRP and be more cost-effective than acquiring individual licenses. NIA-IRP has been using this software since 2006 or earlier. Over the past 5-6 years, CBGC has acquired varying numbers of seats, and there is now a need to purchase 300 seats to meet current demand. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541519. The period of performance will be for one (1) 12-month base period from date of award to August 14. 2027. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals, and no solicitation document exists for the requirement. This hereby constitutes a synopsis of the requirement. CLOSING STATEMENT The determination not to compete this proposed contract action is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Government will not be responsible for any costs incurred by responding to this notice. This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals. Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be directed to the Primary Point of Contact Leah L. Hinson via e-mail only Leah.Hinson@hhs.gov (no phone calls/voice mail). Messages regarding questions will not be accepted and will not receive a response). Please indicate in the subject of your email: Notice of Intent Question Submission � PCA-NIA�06255 GraphPad Prism Subscription Renewal. Contracting Office Address: Office of Mission Acquisition Solutions (OMAS) Office of Acquisitions (OA) | Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Primary Point of Contact: Leah L. Hinson- Leah.Hinson@hhs.gov

Who won similar work

9 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Health and Human Services (all)), same product/service code (PSC) 7A21.

Single-winner award sizes (9): middle half $122K to $5.1M, median $400K; range $24K to $9.2M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
GARTNER, INC. · $IT · $6.5B1$9.2MSep 23, 2025
THOMSON REUTERS SPECIAL SERVICES LLC1$8.0MOct 7, 2025
CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP1$5.1MJul 30, 2025
Nationwide Pharmaceutical LLC1$678KMay 29, 2025
NETCOMM INC1$400KApr 2, 2025
THINKTRENDS, LLC1$162KSep 29, 2025
Unique Technology Systems LLC1$122KFeb 17, 2026
BADGER HEALTH & ASSOCIATES LLC1$27KAug 8, 2025
A-TUNE SOFTWARE INC.1$24KSep 17, 2025

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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.

Investor context
  • $IT reported $6.5B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 9 past awards, $400K, 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.

Latest awards

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 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 Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS) 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
  • 253 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 5 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, 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.