SolicitationPosted Sep 24, 2026·Responses due Dec 16, 2026

UNifying Imaging with QUantum Entanglement (UNIQUE) Innovative Solutions Opening (ISO)

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

Stage
Open solicitation
NAICS
541714
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
ARPA-H-SOL-26-162
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
AN13
Place
Not stated
Contact
The UNIQUE Team (UNIQUE@arpa-h.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

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

Early notice
None posted
Solicitation
  • Sep 16, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Sep 16, 2026
    Solicitation
    Open
  • Sep 24, 2026 · this notice
    Solicitation
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 2, 2026 to Dec 8, 2026, middle of the range Oct 14, 2026.
Measured from 139 past solicitations at National Institutes of Health that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 16, 2026).
Responses are due Dec 16, 2026, so an award before then is unlikely; past cases include short solicitations.

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • 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

Amendment 01: The Proposers' Day has been updated to October 16th, 2026. The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is posting this Innovative Solutions Opening (ISO) in support of the UNifying Imaging with QUantum Entanglement (UNIQUE) Program. ARPA-H anticipates that multiple Other Transaction (OT) Agreements will result from this announcement. Interested parties are invited to review the attached UNIQUE-ISO-ARPA-H-SOL-26-162 and UNIQUE ISO Attachments. Additionally, proposers are encouraged to review the separate Special Notice, ARPA-H-SN-26-162, for information regarding the… (show all)

UNIQUE Proposers� Day. Special Notice, ARPA-H-SN-26-162, is an independent announcement and is not attached to this ISO announcement. All questions submitted to the ISO will be compiled and addressed. All answers will be posted to the UNIQUE Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. Potential proposers are encouraged to monitor the FAQs page regularly for the latest information and updates: https://arpa-h.gov/explore-funding/programs/unique/faqs

Who won similar work

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

WinnerAwardsValueLast
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE Baltimore MD 21201 USA2$30.8MAug 6, 2026
FISHER BIOSERVICES INC · $TMO1$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.

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.

  • 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.