Forecast intelligence
Professional, Scientific & Technical Services: what's coming up before the RFP
Before an agency posts a formal solicitation in Professional Services, it tips its hand — through Sources Sought, Presolicitation, and Special Notices. These are the early signals of Professional Services work that's coming, drawn live from SAM.gov, so you can position before your competition sees the RFP.
What's Coming Up/Professional Services
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early signals tracked
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new this week
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new this month
43
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 Professional, Scientific & Technical Services 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 Professional Services 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 Professional Services
Federal buyers with the most early-stage Professional Services notices in the tracked corpus — these are the agencies actively researching their next Professional Services buys. Click any to see what they're signalling.
Just signalled in Professional Services
The latest Professional Services early notices
The most recent pre-solicitation notices in Professional, Scientific & Technical Services. Each links to the full notice — get in early.
VLF Voltage Testing
Dept of Defense
DA10--Cority GX2 Brand Name or Equivalent Software as a Service Subscription (VA-26-00049891)
Veterans Affairs, Department of
DA10 - Notice of Intent to Sole-Source - Subscription and Support for DSS, Inc. Iconic Data PCM HRO Inpatient Care
Veterans Affairs, Department of
Command Professional Edition Software
Dept of Defense
Sources Sought – RRBS Sequencing Services
Veterans Affairs, Department of
A&E Repair Parking Apron Slab PDPG26-0115
Dept of Defense
DA10--VA Enterprise - Data Call Centers -Purpose Statement RFI
Veterans Affairs, Department of
H342--Fire Extinguisher Inspection and Service in Support of the St. Cloud VA Healthcare System, St. Cloud MN.
Veterans Affairs, Department of
MxASSET Mobile Rounds Application Software Subscription
Health and Human Services, Department of
DLA Industry Collider Day 2026
Dept of Defense
NAVSUP Virtual Industry Day - NETSAFA International Training Center
Dept of Defense
TigerConnect - Services Support
Dept of Defense
MRT IR Navigation Beacons
Dept of Defense
Coastal GeoTools conference support
Commerce, Department of
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Why getting in early wins Professional Services contracts
- Responding to a Professional Services 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. Professional, Scientific & Technical Services notices are matched on the 54 2-digit NAICS prefix. 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.