Special NoticePosted Aug 10, 2026·Responses due Aug 10, 2027

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: Portable Slide Staining System for Microscopy (MSC-TOPS-132)

NASA · NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
927110
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
T2P-JSC-00070
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
9999
Place
Not stated
Contact
NASA�s Technology Transfer Program (Agency-Patent-Licensing@mail.nasa.gov)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation T2P-JSC-00070 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 10, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 27, 2026 to Mar 15, 2027, middle of the range Dec 15, 2026.
Measured from 23 past early notices at National Aeronautics and Space Administration that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 10, 2026).
Responses are due Aug 10, 2027, so an award before then is unlikely; past cases include short solicitations.

Next steps for this stage

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  • 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

NASA�s Technology Transfer Program solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use. NASA provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses. THE TECHNOLOGY: Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a handheld slide staining system designed to support medical, research or environmental monitoring. Although deployed aboard the International Space Station to work in conjunct… (show all)

ion with NASA�s high-powered handheld microscope in the absence of gravity, the system may be applicable to all known staining procedures for terrestrial field and lab microscopes. This novel system is comprised of two primary components which are entirely self-contained when assembled. One component, the dispenser, is designed with an adjustable reagent sponge delivery system that not only serves as a containment unit for fluids, but whose volume allows for multiple uses until the reagents from the dispenser are depleted. The sponges can be replenished with commercial off-the-shelf reagents. The second component, the slide staining device, traps and seals the specimen slide which then receives the titrated reagent from the dispenser. This technology was derived for space-based missions where a specimen�s return to Earth for rapid microscopic analysis would not be viable. A situation could exist within a spacecraft necessitating a rapid in situ medical diagnosis on a crewmember in determining whether an infection is present, conducting a white blood cell count, determining blood platelet concentration, and monitoring the effects of solar particle events as it applies to hematological disturbances. To express interest in this opportunity, please submit a license application through NASA�s Automated Technology Licensing Application System (ATLAS) by visiting https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/MSC-TOPS-132 If you have any questions, please e-mail NASA�s Technology Transfer Program at Agency-Patent-Licensing@mail.nasa.gov with the title of this Technology Transfer Opportunity as listed in this SAM.gov notice and your preferred contact information. For more information about licensing other NASA-developed technologies, please visit the NASA Technology Transfer Portal at https://technology.nasa.gov/ These responses are provided to members of NASA�s Technology Transfer Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness of NASA-developed technology products, and conducting preliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for future licensing opportunities. No follow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.

Who won similar work

171 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (NASA), any industry: a loose match.

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Single-winner award sizes (157): middle half $1.4M to $316.9M, median $14.0M; range $26K to $5.9B.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Amentum Technology, Inc. · $AMTM · $7.9B2$1.2BMay 20, 2026
ARES TECHNICAL SERVICES CORPORATION2$739.8MAug 7, 2026
SIERRA LOBO INC2$548.2MApr 24, 2026
AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC.2$87.0MAug 20, 2025
SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE San Antonio TX 78238 USA2$86.4MFeb 14, 2025
The Regents of the University of Colorado Boulder CO 80309 USA2$40.3MOct 6, 2026
SIERRA SPACE CORP2$26.3MJan 8, 2026
ASCA, INC2$10.6MOct 2, 2026
Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc.2$3.6MJul 7, 2025
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.1$5.9BSep 18, 2026

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.

Investor context
  • $AMTM reported $7.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 157 past awards, $14.0M, is 0.2% of that. 10-K

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Latest awards

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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.

  • 2 of these past winners lobbied Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) since 2024 (11 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) job
  • $46K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • 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.

  • 8 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 16 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.

  • 1 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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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.