Special NoticePosted Aug 20, 2026·Responses due Sep 4, 2026

Fast Assessment of Solutions, Therapeutics, Pharmaceuticals, and SupplieS (FASTPASS) Proposers' Day

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

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541715
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
ARPA-H-SN-26-160
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AN13
Place
DC, USA
Contact
The FASTPASS Team (FASTPASS@ARPA-H.GOV)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation ARPA-H-SN-26-160 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 20, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 8, 2027 to Dec 30, 2027, middle of the range Dec 16, 2027.
Measured from 13 past early notices at National Institutes of Health with NAICS 541715 that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 20, 2026).

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 Scalable Solutions Office (SSO) of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is hosting a Proposers� Day in support of the Innovative Solutions Opening (ISO) for the Fast Assessment of Solutions, Therapeutics, Pharmaceuticals, And SupplieS (FASTPASS) program. The FASTPASS Proposers� Day will be a one-day hybrid event on Thursday, September 10, 2026, 9:00am-5:00pm Eastern Time (ET). See Special Notice: ARPA-H-SN-26-160 (attached) for further details.

Who won similar work

58 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (National Institutes of Health), same NAICS 541715.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
DUKE UNIVERSITY Durham NC 27705 USA2$36.3MMar 31, 2025
The TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 630 WEST 168TH STREET BOX 49 NEW YORK NY 10032 USA2$17.1M + 1 sharedSep 25, 2026
Northwestern University 750 N. LAKE SHORE DRIVE RUBLOFF 7TH FLOOR CHICAGO IL 60611 USA2$7.7M + 1 sharedApr 10, 2025
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES MEDICAL CENTER BLVD. Winston Salem NC 27157 USA2$4.9M + 1 sharedApr 10, 2025
SCIOME LLC1$79.3MAug 27, 2026
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER Jackson MS 39216 USA1$63.9MSep 15, 2025
TEMPUS AI, INC · $TEM1$60.6MSep 17, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 4333 BROOKLYN AVENUE NE BOX 359472 Seattle WA 98195 USA1$55.5MApr 10, 2025
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES Winston Salem NC 27157 USA1$49.5MSep 15, 2025
FISHER BIOSERVICES INC1$48.0MOct 7, 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.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Institutes of Health (NIH) 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.

  • 0 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 21 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.