Forecast intelligence
Department of Defense: what's coming up before the RFP
Before the DoD posts a formal solicitation, it tips its hand — through Sources Sought, Presolicitation, and Special Notices. These are the early signals of DoD work that's coming, drawn live from SAM.gov, so you can position before your competition sees the RFP.
What's Coming Up/DoD
19,041
early signals tracked
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new this week
1,979
new this month
Nov 01, 2026
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How to read this
These are pre-solicitation signals, not formal DoD forecasts. The Department of Defense publishes Sources Sought, Presolicitation, and Special Notices while it's still researching and planning — weeks or months before the formal RFP. We surface them as a leading indicator of demand: a way to spot, shape, and prepare for DoD work before it becomes a deadline-driven competition. Always confirm the specifics against the source notice on SAM.gov.
What the DoD is planning to buy
Early DoD demand by sector
Pre-solicitation activity from the Department of Defense, rolled up by NAICS sector — where this agency's demand is building. Click any to jump into that market within the DoD.
Just signalled by the DoD
The latest DoD early notices
The most recent pre-solicitation notices from the Department of Defense. Each links to the full notice — get in early.
VA Canandaigua Phase III Presolicitation Notice
Dept of Defense
NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE
Dept of Defense
NSN 1680-014946980, MATTRESS
Dept of Defense
Commercial Passenger Airlift Service (121/135)
Dept of Defense
Commercial Passenger Airlift Service (121/135)
Dept of Defense
Dehumidifier Large Buy, NSN 4440-01-509-2722
Dept of Defense
MACH1_AOI_FA890327M1006_F-47 Future Campus at Nellis AFB
Dept of Defense
Request for White Paper - ICD 705 Compliant Trailers
Dept of Defense
7th Fleet Welder Qualification and Sustained Capability Program
Dept of Defense
61--CONTACTOR,MAGNETIC
Dept of Defense
OCONUS Military Working Dogs Shipping Services
Dept of Defense
43--FILTER AIR ASSEMBLY
Dept of Defense
Notice of Intent to Sole Source-PAMAS SBSS - Hydraulic fluid power Calibration
Dept of Defense
48--VALVE,RELIEF,PRESSU
Dept of Defense
Why getting in early wins DoD contracts
- Responding to a DoD Sources Sought can shape the requirement — and the set-aside — in your favour before it's locked.
- Presolicitation notices buy you weeks to build the right team and capture plan, instead of scrambling at RFP release.
- Special Notices and DoD industry days put you in front of the contracting officer while the field is still small.
- By the time the formal DoD RFP posts, the firms that engaged early already have the relationships and the inside track.
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Methodology. "Coming up" signals are notices whose SAM.gov notice type is Sources Sought, Presolicitation, or Special Notice — the early stages an agency posts while researching and planning a procurement. DoD notices are matched on the agency name across department and parent-org fields, so figures are a close approximation rather than an exact org-chart roll-up. They are leading indicators of buying intent, not formal agency procurement forecasts, and not every signal becomes a solicitation. Counts are of the live US federal opportunity corpus WinAContract tracks, sourced from SAM.gov and refreshed daily. As of June 2026. Always verify any specific notice against the source on SAM.gov.