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
3,239
early signals tracked
101
new this week
453
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.
ISO Spreader Bar Inspection, Testing and Certification Services
Dept of Defense
Notice of Intent to Sole Source Engine Testing & Support
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source
Dept of Defense
DA10--Pre-Solicitation Notice with Intent to Sole Source R&D VR Tech Support Services for Immersive VR Training Tool Modificati…
Veterans Affairs, Department of
Building Wrap
Dept of Defense
Architect & Engineering Services, Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award (A&E) Contracts needed for new…
Justice, Department of
Microphysiologic System
Dept of Defense
R799--Northport EUL Development Opportunity Sources Sought COR: Sharon Sirotnak
Veterans Affairs, Department of
Notice of Consolidation Determinations and Findings - $49.9M Civil Works MATOC
Dept of Defense
L046--VA-27-00001681/590-27-1-506-0009 DENTAL WATER LINE TESTIN G
Veterans Affairs, Department of
Honeywell (HW) Glass Obsolescence Analysis
Dept of Defense
B--Zooplankton Analysis of Water Samples
Interior, Department of the
SOLICITATION NUMBER 391557 “PRE-AWARD ACCOUNTING SYSTEM AUDIT”
Energy, Department of
Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS)
Dept of Defense
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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.