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
4,143
early signals tracked
151
new this week
528
new this month
46
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.
Training Simulators & Mobile Applications Development & Maintenance for the USAF Expeditionary Operations School at Joint Base Mc…
Dept of Defense
Simulator Common Architecture Requirements and Standards (SCARS)
Dept of Defense
Amphibious/CVN Engineering and Ship Control Systems
Dept of Defense
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Subscriptions and Systems Integration (SI) Support Services for the Omnichannel Customer Communicati…
Dept of Defense
Request for Information (RFI) for Joint Project Manager for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Protection (JPM CBRN P…
Dept of Defense
Security Technology Integration and Operations Support (STIOS)
State, Department of
Sole Source - COMFRC Procurement Group - Hydrogen Embrittlement Load Frame
Dept of Defense
Industry Day Announcement Supply Chain Illumination
Dept of Defense
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Enterprise Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)
Dept of Defense
Test Evaluation and Technical Support Services (TETSS)
Dept of Defense
NATO Business Opportunity: Service-Based Contract for Operational Communications and Information Systems (CIS) Support Services
Commerce, Department of
SOLICITATION NUMBER 391454 “HAZARDOUS AREA CLASSIFICATION REVIEW AND TRAINING SUPPORT”
Energy, Department of
R702--National Longitudinal Survey and Data Management of Psychiatric and Social Health
Veterans Affairs, Department of
Request for Information (RFI): Verification and Compliance Checking for Natural-Language Network Requirements (FastVacc)
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.