Special NoticePosted Nov 26, 2024·Responses due Dec 11, 2024

Notice of Intent to Sole Source to Kion Cloud Spend Limited Subscription

Energy · NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
513210
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
89243325QFE000462
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
7H20
Place
Morgantown, WV, USA
Contact
Parks, Rebekah L. (Rebekah.Parks@netl.doe.gov)
…Open on SAM.gov
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 89243325QFE000462 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Nov 26, 2024 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Dec 17, 2024
    Award Notice
    NOR LABS, INC. · $25K
    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

In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, the Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) intends to award a purchase order on a sole source basis to Nor Labs Inc. to purchase the renewal of 1 Kion (formerly Cloud Tamer) Annual Platform License Subscription and CSP Spend Usage Units to allow Kion to manage an unlimited number of CSP accounts up to the limit of (500K) in Cloud Services up to 3 Instances and Standard Software Support. NETL requires Kion to assure continued satisfactory operation of account acc… (show all)

ess and cloud management. Kion provides NETL the ability to centrally manage the cloud infrastructure and billing across different providers within a single interface as well as meeting three critical NETL Cyber Operation Objectives. This is considered a sole source to Nor Labs Inc. as to the best of the NETL�s knowledge, based on market research conducted, Nor Labs Inc. is the only known source that can offer this specific cloud service. No known potential alternate sources exist which could satisfy NETL's requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for quote/proposal. Any interested party that believes it can meet the NETL requirement described herein may identify themselves and must provide evidence of their capability to fulfill the requirement being requested by 3:00 PM ET on December 11, 2024. Responses must be submitted in writing to the purchasing agent, Rebekah Parks, via email at rebekah.parks@netl.doe.gov no later than the time and date noted above. Telephone responses and requests will not be received. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.

Who won similar work

11 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY), same NAICS 513210.

Single-winner award sizes (11): middle half $25K to $202K, median $45K; range $10K to $785K.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ASPEN TECHNOLOGY, INC. · $EMR · $15.2B2$828KSep 30, 2026
ResFrac Corporation2$50KDec 29, 2025
HITACHI ENERGY USA INC.1$551KSep 23, 2025
ENVERUS, INC.1$212KSep 29, 2025
COMPUTER MODELLING GROUP LTD1$193KMar 14, 2025
Sightline Analytics, Inc.1$160KJul 24, 2026
BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED · $BSY · $1.2B1$45KJul 29, 2026
GAMS DEVELOPMENT CORP1$16KDec 5, 2024
IXRF, INC.1$10KJul 28, 2025

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
  • $EMR reported $15.2B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 11 past awards, $45K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $BSY reported $1.2B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 11 past awards, $45K, 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.

  • 3 of these past winners lobbied Energy, Dept of since 2024 (15 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Energy, Dept of 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.

  • 5 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 75 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 1 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.