SolicitationPosted Oct 1, 2026·Responses due Oct 15, 2026

NISC Enterprise Support Tasking (NEST)

FAA · 693KA9 CONTRACTING FOR SERVICES

Stage
Open solicitation
NAICS
541511
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
693KA9-26-R-00003
Set-aside
SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program Set-Aside (FAR 19.15)
PSC
DA01
Place
Washington, DC, USA
Contact
FAA AAQ 410 Contracting Office (9-AWA-AAQ410-Contracting-Team@faa.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 693KA9-26-R-00003 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Dec 1, 2025
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
  • Aug 24, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 28, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Aug 31, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Sep 9, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Sep 11, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Oct 1, 2026 · this notice
    Solicitation
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 5, 2026 to Dec 16, 2026, middle of the range Nov 16, 2026.
Measured from 23 past solicitations at Federal Aviation Administration that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 24, 2026).
Responses are due Oct 15, 2026, so an award before then is unlikely; past cases include short solicitations.

Next steps for this stage

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  • 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.

What the notice says

***THIS OPPORTUNITY IS SET-ASIDE FOR WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS (WOSB) CONCERNS*** **A LIVE NIMS DEMONSTRATION WILL OCCUR 09 SEP 2026, SEE L.8 FOR DETAILS** The AJW-2 Directorate, AJW-2131 Implementation Services Group, provides technical, engineering, financial, budget, and management support to Technical Operations programs using the NAS Integration Support Contract (NISC IV Contract) and Technical Support Services Contract (TSSC).These are task order contracts that present contract managers with the task of managing the entire Task Order Management lifecycle, the Financial Management lifecy… (show all)

cle encompassing the obligation and de-obligation of funds by integrating with FAA�s financial systems, PRISM and Delphi and the Invoice/Payments lifecycle. The NISC IV contract will also be transitioned to NISC V contract during the award period, which will require a new system to support the NISC V contract, while maintaining the NIMS system to close out the NISC IV contract. This work requires a support contractor that will provide Operations and Maintenance services for the NIMS systems that is used to manage the current NISC IV contract using the existing technology stack and will provide quality assurance and quality control to ensure uninterrupted system availability. In addition, the vendor should maintain and run reports if required from CMIS system that was used to support the NISC III contract and is currently not active. The work also requires the vendor to serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) capable of providing design, development, testing, deployment and documentation of the new software that will be required to support the NISC V contract when required. This includes, but is not limited to, making recommendations regarding the selection of software architecture and software development tools that will be required to develop the new system. The Contractor must provide operations and maintenance support for the NIMS/CMIS system, provide quality assurance and quality control, provide security compliance and ensure uninterrupted system availability. This effort also requires the vendor to serve as a SME and provide support with system architecture, software recommendations, system design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation for a new system to support NISC V contract requirements when required. Contractor will maintain NIMS/CMIS security certifications required to operate the software and its associated server hardware. The Contractor must also provide transition support to any potential new vendor at the contract�s end. ***THIS OPPORTUNITY IS SET-ASIDE FOR WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS (WOSB) CONCERNS*** **A LIVE NIMS DEMONSTRATION WILL OCCUR 09 SEP 2026, SEE L.8 FOR DETAILS**

Who won similar work

125 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (FAA), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ADB SAFEGATE AMERICAS LLC3$24.7MJun 5, 2025
SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION · $SAIC2$752.8MJul 10, 2025
GUARDIAN CONSTRUCTION, INC.2$11.1MAug 24, 2026
FREQUENTIS USA, INC2$8.6MDec 16, 2025
UNIQUE FACILITY RESOURCES INC2$8.1MSep 14, 2026
Frontgrade Technologies Inc.2$4.9MSep 8, 2026
Quarterwave Corp.2$1.5MJun 22, 2026
X-CLEAN CORP2$1.2MAug 18, 2025
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL INC.2$826KNov 8, 2024
ALPHA CONTRACTORS GROUP INC2$568KSep 28, 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.

Latest awards

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.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) since 2024 (10 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) job
  • $58K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • 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.

  • 2 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 982 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.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 1 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.