Professional Curatorial Supervision
State · EMBASSY MANAMA
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 19BA3026Q0003 in this department, oldest first.
- Aug 18, 2026 · this noticePre-solicitation
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
Please note this solicitation is not ready to be issued as of this date. The Embassy of the United States in the Kingdom of Bahrain will launch the solicitation on the SAM.gov website when it is available. The Contractor shall provide professional curatorial supervision to: Plan, develop, and deliver a high-quality, culturally sensitive public exhibition celebrating Hamad and the Pirates (1971). All qualified sources may submit a quotation which will be considered. The Government intends to award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the lowest priced technically acceptable offeror wh… (show all)
o is a responsible contractor. The Government may award the contract based on the initial offer without discussion. The resultant contract will be a Fixed-Price Contract. The Government is planning a pre-quotation conference and the date for this conference will be in the solicitation. SAM registration is not required; however, qualified offerors must have a valid CAGE/N-CAGE code for verification.
Who won similar work
5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (State), same NAICS 561499.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOTEL ASTORIA LLC | 1 | – + 1 shared | Sep 10, 2026 |
| LN9PU5M2YZN5 Lviv UA-46 UKR | 1 | – + 1 shared | Sep 4, 2026 |
| MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES Washington DC 20405 USA | 1 | – + 1 shared | Sep 9, 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.
- Sep 10, 2026HOTEL ASTORIA LLC$22K (shared ceiling)Services to Support Seminar in Lviv, Ukraine
- Sep 9, 2026MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN AWARDEES Washington DC 20405 USA$22K (shared ceiling)Services to Support Seminar in Lviv, Ukraine
- Sep 4, 2026LN9PU5M2YZN5 Lviv UA-46 UKR$22K (shared ceiling)Services to Support Seminar in Lviv, Ukraine
- Aug 6, 2026LLC$18KEXBS: Services to Support Conference in Kyiv August 18-20
- Jun 9, 2026LLC$49KSERVICES TO SUPPORT CONFERENCE IN KYIV, UKRAINE
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 State, Dept of (DOS) since 2024 (0 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past State, Dept of (DOS) 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
- 33 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.
- 0 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 only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.