Sources SoughtPosted Aug 11, 2026·Responses due Aug 25, 2026

Combined Sources Sought Notice and Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Proprietary parts for SCIA Coat 200 system

Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
333242
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
NIST-SS26-174
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
6640
Place
Boulder, CO, USA
Contact
Forest Crumpler (forest.crumpler@nist.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation NIST-SS26-174 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 11, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 7, 2026 to Dec 16, 2026, middle of the range Oct 30, 2026.
Measured from 19 past early notices at National Institute of Standards and Technology that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 11, 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

Please see attached for full details.

Who won similar work

4 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST), same product/service code (PSC) 6640 and NAICS 333242.

Single-winner award sizes (4): middle half $37K to $66K, median $45K; range $14K to $126K.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
EDWARDS SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS LLC1$126KAug 6, 2026
COOK AND WEIL, INC.1$46KSep 24, 2025
EBARA TECHNOLOGIES INC1$45KMay 22, 2026
KURT J LESKER CO Clairton PA 15025 USA1$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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

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 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
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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
  • 372 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.

  • 0 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.