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
12,521
early signals tracked
802
new this week
3,624
new this month
Jul 28, 2026
latest signal
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.
31--BEARING,BALL,ANNULA
Dept of Defense
Request for Information - Remove and Replace CRAC Units and Chillers
Dept of Defense
VR Training System for Gas Turbine Generator - Pearl Harbor, HI
Dept of Defense
Sources Sought SEL-2488
Dept of Defense
Communications, Network, Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Information Technology Services (CNECTS), aka "Connects"
Dept of Defense
53--ANODE ASSY,ROPE GUA
Dept of Defense
Hot Section Wash Kits
Dept of Defense
48--RETAINER,DISK,VALVE
Dept of Defense
DLA Industry Collider Day 2026
Dept of Defense
66--TRANSDUCER
Dept of Defense
Low-Cost/Affordable Fire Control Radar Request for Information (RFI)
Dept of Defense
Sources Sought Shark 270 electric meter
Dept of Defense
Sources Sought SEL2731
Dept of Defense
Sole Source Procurement of Infobase Credo
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.