Special NoticePosted Jul 30, 2026·Responses due Aug 15, 2026

Purity Specifications, Storage and Distribution for Medications Development

National Institutes of Health · NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541715
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
75N98026R00136
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
AN22
Place
Bethesda, MD, USA
Contact
Polina Klimenkova (polina.klimenkova@nih.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 75N98026R00136 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 30, 2026
    Special Notice
    Open
  • Jul 30, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Aug 18, 2027 to Dec 9, 2027, middle of the range Nov 25, 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 Jul 30, 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

TITLE: Purity Specifications, Storage and Distribution for Medications Development This is a Sources Sought notice. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, ABSTRACTS, OR QUOTATIONS. This notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on responses under this announcement nor otherwise pay for preparing any information sent for the Government's use. Any proprietary information should be so marked. PROJECT REQUIREMENTS The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) seeks capab… (show all)

ility statements from small businesses having the in-house capability to act as a centralized repository for compounds (i.e., chemical and biological) from domestic and international investigators, commercial sources, and pharmaceutical companies. Specifically, the project requires the following tasks: The major goal of this project is to provide NIDA and other NIH Institutes with a holding site which has the capability to inventory, analyze and store compounds, prepared under both non-GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and GMP conditions, in amounts ranging from milligram quantities to several kilograms. In accordance with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, DEA Research Registration for Schedules II to V and potentially Schedule I controlled substances will be required. Please see the attachment for more 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.