Forecast intelligence
Retail Trade: what's coming up before the RFP
Before an agency posts a formal solicitation in Retail Trade, it tips its hand — through Sources Sought, Presolicitation, and Special Notices. These are the early signals of Retail Trade work that's coming, drawn live from SAM.gov, so you can position before your competition sees the RFP.
What's Coming Up/Retail Trade
11
early signals tracked
3
new this week
6
new this month
4
agencies signalling
How to read this
These are pre-solicitation signals, not formal agency forecasts. Federal buyers publish Sources Sought, Presolicitation, and Special Notices in Retail Trade while they're 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 Retail Trade work before it becomes a deadline-driven competition. Always confirm the specifics against the source notice on SAM.gov.
Who's planning to buy
The agencies signalling most in Retail Trade
Federal buyers with the most early-stage Retail Trade notices in the tracked corpus — these are the agencies actively researching their next Retail Trade buys. Click any to see what they're signalling.
Just signalled in Retail Trade
The latest Retail Trade early notices
The most recent pre-solicitation notices in Retail Trade. Each links to the full notice — get in early.
19UZ8026Q0021-Vehicle purchase for the U.S. Embassy Tashkent
State, Department of
Boat Maintenance
Dept of Defense
Postage for Mail Machine
Health and Human Services, Department of
MY2026 C-Segment Compact Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) - U.S. Embassy Ankara, Türkiye
State, Department of
TRUCK, TRAILER, GENERATOR, ATV REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE
Dept of Defense
US EMBASSY LUANDA VEHICLES PURCHASE
State, Department of
Wellness Equipment and Supplies
Health and Human Services, Department of
Enterprise Commissary Operations
Justice, Department of
Purchase of 8-seater minivan
State, Department of
Just-In-Time Expendable Office Supplies
State, Department of
LOKRING ELBOW
Dept of Defense
Why getting in early wins Retail Trade contracts
- Responding to a Retail Trade 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 industry days put you in front of the contracting officer while the field is still small.
- By the time the formal 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. Retail Trade notices are matched on the 44/45 2-digit NAICS prefixes. 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.