Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistant Tools Patent Examination Modernization (Patent AI)
Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE PTO
No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation ACQ-26-1279 in this department, oldest first.
- Jun 29, 2026 · this noticeAward NoticeFOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C. · $13.7M
- Jun 29, 2026Justification (Sole Source)Open
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Note the winner and the end of the period of performance for the recompete.
- Follow the agency to see the next notice for this work.
What the notice says
The USPTO awarded a fixed-price, non-competitive, contract order to Four Points Technology, LLC via a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) #1333-LB-24-A-00001 with the United States Census Bureau issued pursuant to the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation 8.405-3 � Blanket Purchase Agreements, under GSA Multiple Award Schedule. This BPA allowed access to the patent examination tool developed by Google Cloud Platform and Patlytics, Inc. The tool provides comprehensive prior art search capabilities, automated claim mapping presented in a claim to citation chart that supports 35 U… (show all)
.S.C. 102, 103, and 112 analyses, and documented quality metrics for validating search and Office Action outputs. In addition, the vendor maintains a SOC 2 Type II attestation for information security controls and will be able to achieve FedRAMP certification within the required timeframe.
Who won similar work
3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Commerce (all)), same product/service code (PSC) DA01.
Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $875K to $25.0M, median $1.1M; range $687K to $49.0M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE TOMORROW COMPANIES INC. | 1 | $49.0M | Aug 24, 2026 |
| CACI, INC. · $CACI · $9.6B | 1 | $1.1M | Jan 5, 2026 |
| WEATHERTOP CONSULTING, LLC | 1 | $687K | Jan 17, 2025 |
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
- $CACI reported $9.6B revenue (fiscal year ending Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 3 past awards, $1.1M, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.
- Aug 24, 2026THE TOMORROW COMPANIES INC.$49.0MEarth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC)-Advancing Weather Modeling SkillsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jan 5, 2026CACI, INC.$1.1MAward Announcement - Comprizon Suite Support for DOCMateriality: 0.01% of $CACI revenue (Low) SEC
- Jan 17, 2025WEATHERTOP CONSULTING, LLC$687KData Management Tool Development and Server MaintenanceNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
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 3 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
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
- 373 rules from the department in the last 12 months
- 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.