1MW Modular Test Furnace
Energy · NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 89243326QFE000544 in this department, oldest first.
Next steps for this stage
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- 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
1MW Modular Test Furnace
Who won similar work
8 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY), same product/service code (PSC) 4430 and NAICS 333994.
Single-winner award sizes (8): middle half $103K to $590K, median $246K; range $28K to $2.7M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERDER SCIENTIFIC INC | 3 | $1.6M | Sep 23, 2026 |
| RETECH SYSTEMS LLC | 1 | $2.7M | Mar 7, 2025 |
| SURFACE COMBUSTION INC | 1 | $356K | Sep 21, 2026 |
| PENNRAM DIVERSIFIED MANUFACTURING CORP | 1 | $274K | Aug 19, 2025 |
| METTLER-TOLEDO LLC | 1 | $108K | Nov 26, 2024 |
| THE MELLEN CO INC | 1 | $28K | May 8, 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.
- Sep 23, 2026VERDER SCIENTIFIC INC$217K44--Purchase of Carbolite-Gero (Verder Scientif
- Sep 21, 2026SURFACE COMBUSTION INC$356K44--Modular Test Furnace with Auxiliary Exhaust Burner
- Aug 19, 2025PENNRAM DIVERSIFIED MANUFACTURING CORP$274K44--Atmospheric Combustion Chamber for Experimental Bu
- Jun 25, 2025VERDER SCIENTIFIC INC$1.3M44--Graphite Vacuum Chamber Furnace and Hot Walled Ret
- May 8, 2025THE MELLEN CO INC$28K44--High Temperature Furnace per the attached Specific
- Apr 22, 2025VERDER SCIENTIFIC INC$89K44--HTRH Carbolite Gero
- Mar 7, 2025RETECH SYSTEMS LLC$2.7M44--Electron Beam Melting Furnace
- Nov 26, 2024METTLER-TOLEDO LLC$108K44--Purchase of a Simultaneous Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) Thermal Analyzer Instrument as outlined in the attached specifications.
Competitive landscape
For the 6 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 Energy, Dept of since 2024 (9 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Energy, Dept of 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
- 75 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.
- 0 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.