Special NoticePosted Sep 24, 2026·Responses due Oct 14, 2026

UNifying Imaging with QUantum Entanglement (UNIQUE) Proposers' Day

National Institutes of Health · ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY FOR HEALTH (ARPA-H)

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541714
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
ARPA-H-SN-26-162
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AN13
Place
Not stated
Contact
The UNIQUE Team (UNIQUE@arpa-h.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation ARPA-H-SN-26-162 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 16, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
  • Sep 24, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 26, 2026 to Jul 18, 2027, middle of the range Nov 19, 2026.
Measured from 68 past early notices at National Institutes of Health that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 16, 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.

What the notice says

Amendment 01: The Special Notice has been amended to specify that the Proposers Day will take place at 8:30am ET on October 16th, 2026, at the Executive Conference Center (ECC) located at 4075 Wilson Blvd, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22203. This Special Notice (SN) alerts the scientific community to a newly approved ARPA-H program and notifies potential proposers of an associated Proposers� Day. See attached UNIQUE-SN-ARPA-H-SN-26-162 for further details. A Lightning Talk Template is also provided for convenience.

Who won similar work

15 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (National Institutes of Health), same NAICS 541714.

Single-winner award sizes (13): middle half $552K to $30.3M, median $19.9M; range $27K to $100.0M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE Baltimore MD 21201 USA2$30.8MAug 6, 2026
FISHER BIOSERVICES INC · $TMO · $42.9B1$100.0MJan 21, 2025
Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Inc.1$48.3MAug 1, 2025
THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION1$34.9MNov 21, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Coral Gables FL 33146 USA1$26.6MNov 21, 2025
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY La Jolla CA 92037 USA1$24.3MMar 16, 2026
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA1$19.9MNov 21, 2025
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI New York NY 10029 USA1$18.5MNov 21, 2025
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation Los Angeles CA 90073 USA1$17.7MNov 21, 2025
THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC1$215KSep 29, 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
  • $TMO reported $42.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 13 past awards, $19.9M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K

One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.

Latest awards

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 Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2024 (7 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) job
  • $64K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • 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
  • 0 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 7 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.