Flux Towers - Mandan ND
Agriculture (all) · USDA ARS AFM APD
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 1232SA26Q1074 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
17SEP2026 Amendment 0001 is issued. It is a requirement of the solicitation to sign and submit any amendment SF30s with any final Quote. LIST OF CHANGES: 1. Attachment 1 Specifications.pdf is superseded by AMD 0001 Attachment 1 Specifications.pdf. 2. There is NO requirement stated in the specifications for an environmental sensor package. 3. The Section 2.0 and specification section numbers indicated in the Technical Acceptability section Technical Capability Narrative subsection do not apply as there are no numbered sections in AMD 0001 Attachment 1 Specifications.pdf. The Technical Capabilit… (show all)
y Narrative shall only include confirmation of technical capability to meet each specification requirement as stated in AMD 0001 Attachment 1 Specifications.pdf. 4. There is NO indication in the Technical Acceptability Section that the _Quoted delivery in days if more than 30 days_ fillable entry in Block 20 of the SF1449 is a condition of Technical Acceptability if over 30 days. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Quotations are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number 1232SA26Q1074 is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for Flux Towers. This acquisition is not set-aside for small business concerns. The applicable North American Industry Classification Standard Code is 334516. This acquisition is an unrestricted requirement. All responsible sources may submit a quotation which will be considered by the agency. It is the quoters responsibility to monitor this solicitation on sam.gov for updates.
Who won similar work
137 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (USDA ARS AFM APD), same product/service code (PSC) 6640 and NAICS 334516.
Single-winner award sizes (137): middle half $34K to $122K, median $67K; range $8K to $45.0M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC | 9 | $1.0M | Sep 3, 2026 |
| ELEMENT BIOSCIENCES, INC. | 5 | $8.8M | Aug 3, 2026 |
| GERSTEL INC | 3 | $382K | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Fisher Scientific Company · $TMO · $46.3B | 3 | $310K | Sep 30, 2026 |
| FRANKLIN YOUNG INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED | 3 | $283K | Jun 11, 2026 |
| ANTON PAAR USA, INC | 3 | $185K | Sep 22, 2026 |
| FSR CONSULTING LLC | 3 | $146K | Jun 18, 2026 |
| AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC · $A · $7.4B | 2 | $359K | Jul 17, 2026 |
| HARVARD BIOSCIENCE, INC. | 2 | $352K | Sep 22, 2025 |
| C-LOCK, INC. | 2 | $292K | Sep 10, 2026 |
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Notices whose amount is a placeholder such as $999,999,999 are not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
- $TMO reported $46.3B revenue (12 months to Jun 27, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 137 past awards, $67K, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
- $A reported $7.4B revenue (12 months to Jul 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 137 past awards, $67K, 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.
- Oct 1, 2026Kincaid Equipment Manufacturing, Inc.$32KELUTRIATOR FOR EXTRACTING WEED SEED, USDA, ARS , PULLMAN, WANo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 30, 2026Fisher Scientific Company$40KDigital Polymerase Chain Reaction (dPCR) InstrumentMateriality: <0.01% of $TMO revenue (Low) SEC
- Sep 30, 2026K&R TECHNOLOGIES LLC$49K90-liter Horizontal Benchtop AutoclaveNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 29, 2026MILESTONE INC$62KMilestone Brand Name Microwave Digestive System - Award NoticeNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 28, 2026WINTERSTEIGER SEEDMECH LLC$97KCombine-mounted NIRSNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 28, 2026GFS SUPPLY & SERVICES COMPANY$11KDehumidifier for walk-in coolerNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 25, 2026HUNT OPTICS & IMAGING INC$33KOlympus BX53 Fluorescent Microscope with Phase ContrastNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 24, 2026QUAKELOGIC, INC.$150KSingle Quadrupole Gas Chromatograph � Mass SpectrometerNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 24, 2026YELLOW TAG AUCTIONS, LLC$57KRover and Rotor Spinning FrameNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 24, 2026MOLECULAR DEVICES LLC$349KHigh Throughput Screening System - Corvallis ORNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
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 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 Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) since 2024 (1 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) job
- $30K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Agriculture, House Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Senate Committee on Appropriations
- 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
- 133 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.
- 2 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 8 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, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.