Special NoticePosted Jul 30, 2026·Responses due Aug 15, 2026

Purity Specifications, Storage and Distribution for Medications Development

National Institutes of Health · NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541715
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
75N98026R00136
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AN11
Place
Bethesda, MD, USA
Contact
Polina Klimenkova (polina.klimenkova@nih.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 75N98026R00136 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 30, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
  • Jul 30, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Aug 18, 2027 to Dec 9, 2027, middle of the range Nov 25, 2027.
Measured from 13 past early notices at National Institutes of Health with NAICS 541715 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Jul 30, 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

TITLE: Purity Specifications, Storage and Distribution for Medications Development This is a Sources Sought notice. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, ABSTRACTS, OR QUOTATIONS. This notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on responses under this announcement nor otherwise pay for preparing any information sent for the Government's use. Any proprietary information should be so marked. PROJECT REQUIREMENTS The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) seeks capab… (show all)

ility statements from small businesses having the in-house capability to act as a centralized repository for compounds (i.e., chemical and biological) from domestic and international investigators, commercial sources, and pharmaceutical companies. Specifically, the project requires the following tasks: The major goal of this project is to provide NIDA and other NIH Institutes with a holding site which has the capability to inventory, analyze and store compounds, prepared under both non-GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and GMP conditions, in amounts ranging from milligram quantities to several kilograms. In accordance with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, DEA Research Registration for Schedules II to V and potentially Schedule I controlled substances will be required. Please see the attachment for more details.

Who won similar work

27 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (National Institutes of Health), same product/service code (PSC) AN11.

Single-winner award sizes (17): middle half $2.7M to $20.0M, median $17.1M; range $552K to $34.9M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE Baltimore MD 21201 USA2$30.8MAug 6, 2026
The TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 630 WEST 168TH STREET BOX 49 NEW YORK NY 10032 USA2$17.1M + 1 sharedSep 25, 2026
MRIGLOBAL Kansas City MO 64110 USA2$5.0M + 1 sharedJul 17, 2026
THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION1$34.9MNov 21, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Coral Gables FL 33146 USA1$26.6MNov 21, 2025
WESTAT, INC.1$21.4MSep 25, 2026
RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE Durham NC 27709 USA1$20.0MMar 17, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA1$19.9MNov 21, 2025
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI New York NY 10029 USA1$18.5MNov 21, 2025
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation Los Angeles CA 90073 USA1$17.7MNov 21, 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 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 Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) 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
  • 0 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.