Special NoticePosted Aug 10, 2026·Responses due Aug 17, 2026

Fidelity Pointwise

Air Force and Space Force · FA8604 AFLCMC PZI

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
513210
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
F4FDBM6211A002
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
7A21
Place
Wright Patterson AFB, OH, USA
Contact
Jessica Foster (jessica.foster.16@us.af.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation F4FDBM6211A002 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 10, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 5, 2026 to Feb 5, 2027, middle of the range Nov 16, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 10, 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 Air Force Life Cycle Management Center intends to negotiate a sole source Firm-Fixed Price contract for Pointwise License Maintenance. This justification is for a single source in accordance with the following authority, as applicable: FAR 13.106-1(b) and the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available. The procurement of the Pointwise software is essential to support the current intelligence, technological, and warfare model production environments. Pointwise is specialized software that is sold through a single source and Pointwise, Inc. is the only sou… (show all)

rce that can provide Pointwise software perpetual licenses. Please see the Justification and Approval document attached to this posting for additional details. This is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation is available at this time. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency. Interested sources must respond in writing with clear and convincing evidence to support their ability to provide the required supplies/services by 17 August 2025 at 12PM EST. A determination by the Government not to compete this action based on responses received is solely within the discretion of the Government. Col(S) Paul W. Tinker has been appointed as Ombudsman to hear concerns from offerors, or potential offerors, during the proposal development. The purpose of the Ombudsman is to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. Existence of the Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the program director or the contracting officer. Accordingly, the Ombudsman does not participate in the preparation of solicitations, the evaluation of proposals or the source selection process and, therefore, for routine matters on individual solicitations, please contact the buyer at the telephone number listed herein. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. Should you desire to contact the Ombudsman, Col(S) Paul W. Tinker can be reached at e-mail: asca@us.af.mil.

Who won similar work

8 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 513210.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Ansys Government Initiatives, LLC2$2.6MDec 31, 2025
CERTASITE, LLC1$305KNov 14, 2025
PITCHBOOK DATA INC1$144KSep 25, 2025
STARLIMS CORPORATION1$84KSep 29, 2026
CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP1$39KAug 27, 2025
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC · $CDNS1$28KNov 25, 2025
TRILLAMED LLC1$14KSep 30, 2025

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 7 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 Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of 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
  • 32 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
  • 0 insider buys and 9 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.