NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE
Commerce (all) · DEPT OF COMMERCE SSPO
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation TAIA0000-26-00098 in this department, oldest first.
- Aug 18, 2026 · this noticeSpecial Notice
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
The Department of Commerce (DOC), International Trade Administration (ITA), Industry and Analysis (I&A), intends to negotiate and award a sole source Firm-Fixed-Price commercial contract for a performance period of twelve (12) months from date of award and acceptance with one (1) one-year option period to IHS Global Inc. (S&P Global Market Intelligence) for continued online subscription access to the Chemical Economics Handbook (CEH) and Directory of Chemical Producers�Worldwide (Internet Subscriptions). PLEASE SEE ATTACHED NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE FOR FULL DETAILS.
Who won similar work
775 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Commerce (all)), any industry: a loose match.
Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROUND LEVEL SERVICES LLC | 15 | $22.5M | Sep 23, 2026 |
| TECHNICAL COMMUNITIES, INC. | 12 | $2.4M | Oct 7, 2026 |
| GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC | 7 | $411K | Sep 22, 2026 |
| TOPTICA PHOTONICS INC | 6 | $614K | Oct 7, 2026 |
| TITANIUM LOGISTIC SERVICES, LLC | 6 | $558K | Feb 24, 2026 |
| PARYMON CORP | 5 | $3.5M | Sep 21, 2026 |
| Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC | 4 | $2.7M | Sep 24, 2026 |
| AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC · $A | 4 | $1.5M | Sep 23, 2025 |
| Rohde & Schwarz USA, Inc. | 4 | $1.0M | Sep 30, 2026 |
| GOVAGE, INC. | 4 | $898K | Oct 1, 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.
- Oct 14, 2026CASTAGNOLA TUG SERVICE, INC.$21KV--Vessel Charter - Buoy Recovery and Deployment - Sa
- Oct 14, 2026THE GORDIAN GROUP, INC.$72K14 RS Means License Renewal
- Oct 13, 2026SANGUINE BIOSCIENCES, INC.$200KBlood Bank Sample Services
- Oct 13, 2026YOKOGAWA FLUID IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$147KFlow Imaging Microscopy combined with Light Obscuration Capabilities
- Oct 8, 2026SCIENTA OMICRON, INC.$1.2MHigh-pressure XPS System
- Oct 7, 2026TECHNICAL COMMUNITIES, INC.$410KANRITSU FREQUENCY EXTENSION SYSTEM BRAND NAME ONLY
- Oct 7, 2026AVANTES, INC$41KNLIR IR SPECTROMETER SYSTEM MODEL S-MIDWAVE-2050-400-2K-F (BRAND NAME ONLY)
- Oct 7, 2026SPINNER ICT INC$98KPrimary S-Parameter Standards for Plasma Etching Record
- Oct 7, 2026PC VISION INC$104KOpto-Isolated High Voltage Switch, G3VM-101LR
- Oct 7, 2026TELEDYNE LECROY, INC.$102KArbitrary Waveform Generator
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.
- 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
- 372 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.
- 1 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 1 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 only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.