Sources SoughtPosted Aug 4, 2026·Responses due Aug 11, 2026

Laser Tracker Metrology System - Sources Sought

Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST

Stage

Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)

NAICS

334513

Value

Not stated

Solicitation

NIST-AMD-SSN-7302461

Set-aside

None stated

PSC

6650

Place

USA

Contact

Not stated

…Open on SAM.gov

CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation NIST-AMD-SSN-7302461 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice

Aug 4, 2026 · this notice
Sources Sought

Solicitation

None posted

Award

Not yet. Typical award: Sep 30, 2026 to Dec 9, 2026, middle of the range Oct 23, 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 4, 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.

Who won similar work

5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 334513.

Winner	Awards	Value	Last
QM TECHNOLOGIES INC	2	$169K	Oct 1, 2026
ANDOR TECHNOLOGY, INC.	1	$169K	Oct 1, 2026
MAHR INC	1	$94K	Oct 7, 2026
SAVE AGAIN.COM Santa Clarita CA 91350 USA	1	$79K	Mar 11, 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

Oct 7, 2026MAHR INC$94KMarEcon Controller Upgrade for 828CiM PPC Machines (inclusive of peripherals) BRAND NAME ONLY
Oct 1, 2026ANDOR TECHNOLOGY, INC.$169KCMOS Cameras
Oct 1, 2026QM TECHNOLOGIES INC$41KMicrowave Signal Generator
Aug 14, 2025QM TECHNOLOGIES INC$128KAward Notice - Quantum Control and Measurement Electronics
Mar 11, 2025SAVE AGAIN.COM Santa Clarita CA 91350 USA$79KHandheld Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM)

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.

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.