Forecast intelligence
Accommodation & Food Services: what's coming up before the RFP
Before an agency posts a formal solicitation in Hospitality & Food, it tips its hand — through Sources Sought, Presolicitation, and Special Notices. These are the early signals of Hospitality & Food work that's coming, drawn live from SAM.gov, so you can position before your competition sees the RFP.
What's Coming Up/Hospitality & Food
88
early signals tracked
12
new this week
31
new this month
11
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 Accommodation & Food 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 Hospitality & Food 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 Hospitality & Food
Federal buyers with the most early-stage Hospitality & Food notices in the tracked corpus — these are the agencies actively researching their next Hospitality & Food buys. Click any to see what they're signalling.
Just signalled in Hospitality & Food
The latest Hospitality & Food early notices
The most recent pre-solicitation notices in Accommodation & Food Services. Each links to the full notice — get in early.
The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General, Office of Audits & Evaluations Operational Planning Meeting FY26…
Veterans Affairs, Department of
SOURCES SOUGHT--West Point Field Force Forum
Dept of Defense
RAAF Curtin Catering Services
Dept of Defense
Request for Information - Military Food Service Contracting at Training Center Cape My, NJ
Homeland Security, Department of
Commercial Lodging for the 433rd Airlift Wing
Dept of Defense
Cook Services - Food Preparation and Serving
State, Department of
89--Food Supply & Services-BIA_OJS Rocky Mtn Dist. V
Interior, Department of the
Married Communication Training
Dept of Defense
RAAF Curtin Catering Services
Dept of Defense
Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source 8(a) Procurement to The J Group, LLC, for Temporary Chef Services
Dept of Defense
RFI - Hotel & Meeting Facilities Capability
Administrative Office of the US Courts
NIST Boulder Catering Services Base with Four Option Years for Continued Service
Commerce, Department of
Host for the G7 Deputies Finance Track, March 2027
Treasury, Department of the
OKARNG Catered Meals at Camp Dodge
Dept of Defense
Why getting in early wins Hospitality & Food contracts
- Responding to a Hospitality & Food 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. Accommodation & Food Services notices are matched on the 72 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.