Special NoticePosted Aug 5, 2025·Responses due Aug 11, 2025

Notice of Intent to Award on a Sole Source Basis/Tecniplast Individually Ventilated Mouse Caging System

Agriculture (all) · USDA ARS AFM APD

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
339999
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
1232SA25Q0549
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
6640
Place
Ames, IA, USA
Contact
Monte Jordan (monte.jordan@usda.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 1232SA25Q0549 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 5, 2025 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Sep 30, 2025
    Award Notice
    TECNIPLAST USA, INC. · $447K
    Open

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

THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS/QUOTATIONS. This notice is for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. This procurement will be processed pursuant to FAR Part 12 � Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services and FAR Part 13 � Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.5 � Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Products and Commercial Services. No solicitation will be issued. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement in writing which shall be considered by the agency solely for the pur… (show all)

pose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. Responses are to be received within five (5) calendar days of this notice. No telephone calls will be accepted. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) intends to award on a single source basis. The purchase order type will be a Firm Fixed Price awarded to Tecniplast USA. This is for Individually Ventilated Caging, Racks, and Air Handlers to coordinate use with existing Tecniplast USA Seal Safe Mousing caging, and individually ventilated racks used in support of ongoing mouse studies.

Who won similar work

150 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (USDA ARS AFM APD), same product/service code (PSC) 6640.

Single-winner award sizes (150): middle half $34K to $115K, median $63K; range $8K to $45.0M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC10$1.4MSep 3, 2026
ELEMENT BIOSCIENCES, INC.5$8.8MAug 3, 2026
GERSTEL INC3$382KSep 22, 2026
Fisher Scientific Company · $TMO · $42.9B3$310KSep 30, 2026
FRANKLIN YOUNG INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED3$283KJun 11, 2026
ANTON PAAR USA, INC3$185KSep 22, 2026
FSR CONSULTING LLC3$146KJun 18, 2026
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC · $A · $6.8B2$359KJul 17, 2026
HARVARD BIOSCIENCE, INC.2$352KSep 22, 2025
C-LOCK, INC.2$292KSep 10, 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 150 past awards, $63K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $A reported $6.8B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 150 past awards, $63K, 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

Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.

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 Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) since 2024 (1 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) job
  • $30K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Agriculture, House Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Senate Committee on Appropriations
  • 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
  • 132 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.

  • 2 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 8 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.