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
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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.
B533 Processing Water Samples for Renal Dialysis, located at VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Veterans Affairs, Department of
Tinker Base Engineering Support Services (TBESS) Sources Sought
Dept of Defense
DRAFT SOLICITATION Defense Energy Consortium (DECo) Consortium Management Organization (CMO)
Dept of Defense
MCC Nepal Local Communications Project (Communications Firm for Nepal Compact )
State, Department of
**PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE** Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR): Increment 1
Dept of Defense
J065--Karl Storz StreamConnect EHRM Support
Veterans Affairs, Department of
TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: NanoFET
Energy, Department of
STATE OF THE ART (SOTA) MICROELECTRONICS (ME) ADOPTION BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) FULL TEXT GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Dept of Defense
(U) Request for Information: Next-Generation Procurement Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Acquisition Platform
Dept of Defense
Enterprise Learning Strategy and Operational Launch Support
Health and Human Services, Department of
Clinical Laboratory Molecular Diagnostics Test using inVivoScribe reagents kit.
Health and Human Services, Department of
Request for audit services for Accountable Entity (AE) and foreign organizations without access to Independent Public Accounting …
Millennium Challenge Corporation
RFI: Unmanned Ground Recovery
Dept of Defense
Notice of Intent to Sole Source Personnel Security Support Services
Energy, 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.