Forecast intelligence
Department of Energy: what's coming up before the RFP
Before the DOE posts a formal solicitation, it tips its hand — through Sources Sought, Presolicitation, and Special Notices. These are the early signals of DOE work that's coming, drawn live from SAM.gov, so you can position before your competition sees the RFP.
What's Coming Up/DOE
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How to read this
These are pre-solicitation signals, not formal DOE forecasts. The Department of Energy 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 DOE work before it becomes a deadline-driven competition. Always confirm the specifics against the source notice on SAM.gov.
What the DOE is planning to buy
Early DOE demand by sector
Pre-solicitation activity from the Department of Energy, rolled up by NAICS sector — where this agency's demand is building. Click any to jump into that market within the DOE.
Just signalled by the DOE
The latest DOE early notices
The most recent pre-solicitation notices from the Department of Energy. Each links to the full notice — get in early.
SOLICITATION NUMBER 389608 “PRETREATED WASTE STORAGE TANK FABRICATION”
Energy, Department of
Heat Exchanger Inspection Tool
Energy, Department of
Sources Sought Notice - Domestic JAA Transportation Services
Dept of Defense
Technology Licensing Opportunity: Controlled SPAN Electrode Synthesis for and High-Performance Energy Storage
Energy, Department of
Justification and Approval
Dept of Defense
Tech Licensing Opportunity: Advanced Feedthrough Assembly Technology for Sealed Environments
Energy, Department of
Technology Licensing Opportunity: Flame-Retardant Electrolytes for Safer Lithium-Ion Batteries
Energy, Department of
Available for Licensing: Machine Learning-Enhanced Spectroscopy Technology for High-Resolution Radiation Detection Using Low-Cost…
Energy, Department of
TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: NanoFET
Energy, Department of
Software Licensing Opportunity: GLASS Software for Real-Time Optimization of Power Transmission Capacity
Energy, Department of
Tech Licensing Opportunity: Synthesis of Tungsten Tetraboride (WB4) by Electric Field Assisted Sintering (EFAS)
Energy, Department of
Development of a Utility Master Plan
Energy, Department of
Notice of Intent to Sole Source Personnel Security Support Services
Energy, Department of
Bolstering Underutilized Industry by Leveraging Technology Transfer (BUILTT) for DOE
Energy, Department of
Why getting in early wins DOE contracts
- Responding to a DOE 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 DOE industry days put you in front of the contracting officer while the field is still small.
- By the time the formal DOE 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. DOE 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.