Sources SoughtPosted Jul 30, 2026·Responses due Aug 7, 2026

Sources Sought/ Notice of Intent to Sole Source for Alerton DDC Server Upgrade

Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST

Stage

Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)

NAICS

541519

Value

Not stated

Solicitation

OFPM_TEAM_SS26_32

Set-aside

None stated

PSC

7A21

Place

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Contact

Not stated

…Open on SAM.gov

CSV Email

Capture briefs (a one-page, shareable copy of this page) are part of Pro. The CSV here holds the notice, its timeline and past awards.

Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation OFPM_TEAM_SS26_32 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice

Jul 30, 2026 · this notice
Sources Sought

Solicitation

None posted

Award

Not yet. Typical award: Sep 25, 2026 to Dec 4, 2026, middle of the range Oct 18, 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 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.

Who won similar work

4 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 541519.

Winner	Awards	Value	Last
Rampant Consulting LLC	1	$1.5M	Sep 22, 2026
ALBIREO ENERGY LLC	1	$953K	Sep 22, 2026
CIMQUEST INC	1	$40K	Oct 29, 2024
GRABLE SERVICES, LLC	1	$20K	Jun 27, 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.

Latest awards

Sep 22, 2026ALBIREO ENERGY LLC$953KAlerton BAS Maintenance and Repair
Sep 22, 2026Rampant Consulting LLC$1.5MAnnual development and service to cover the entire CNST NanoFab IT infrastructure
Jun 27, 2026GRABLE SERVICES, LLC$20KMaximo Subscription Support, NIST, Boulder, CO
Oct 29, 2024CIMQUEST INC$40KMasterCam Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Software

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.