CHIPS R&D Custom Diffractometry and Fourier Ptychography Endstation
Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 1333ND26QNB030236 in this department, oldest first.
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- 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
Amendment 0001: Extend response date to July 13, 2026. Added vacuum chamber component.pdf attachment. See attachments for solicitation details.
Who won similar work
3 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 334519.
Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $107K to $116K, median $108K; range $106K to $124K.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| TECHNICAL COMMUNITIES, INC. | 1 | $124K | Mar 27, 2026 |
| DIRECT DIMENSIONS INC | 1 | $108K | Jun 26, 2026 |
| ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC · $ITW · $16.5B | 1 | $106K | Sep 9, 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.
- $ITW reported $16.5B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 3 past awards, $108K, 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.
- Jun 26, 2026DIRECT DIMENSIONS INC$108KAward Notice for Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Mar 27, 2026TECHNICAL COMMUNITIES, INC.$124KCHIPS R&D: Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) SpectrometerNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 9, 2025ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC$106KReplacement Forming Limit Machine ControllerMateriality: <0.01% of $ITW revenue (Low) SEC
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 3 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
- 373 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 only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.