Contract award
DECIBEL RESEARCH, INC.
- PIID
- 0001
- Award key
- CONT_AWD_0001_9700_HQ014713D0001_9700
- Recipient UEI
- QCHJL3BGYD45
- Parent award
- CONT_IDV_HQ014713D0001_9700
- Source as of
- —
- Awarding agency
- Department of DefenseDefense Contract Management Agency
- Contractor
- DECIBEL RESEARCH, INC.
- PSC
- AC24 · NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES; R&D ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
- Place of performance
- Huntsville, Alabama
- Set-aside
- None
- Pricing
- Fixed Price Incentive
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition after Exclusion of Sources
- Period of performance
- Nov 16, 2012 — Nov 15, 2013Through Nov 15, 2013 if all options are exercised
- Benchmark category
- Engineering Services
Against comparable awards
Where this award sits in the published Engineering Services distribution.
At $3,942,435, this award is above the top quartile. The median is $807,002 across 11,637 comparable awards.
Comparison uses the same measure (current award value) and the snapshot published Sep 25, 2026. See the full benchmark.
Transaction history
Every action recorded against this award, in the order the government reported them.
| Mod | Action date | Reason | Obligation | Value at action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Nov 16, 2012 | Initial award | $4,357,259.37 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 1 | Nov 19, 2012 | M | $0.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 2 | Nov 30, 2012 | M | $0.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 3 | Feb 28, 2013 | B | $611,854.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 4 | Apr 1, 2013 | B | $88,498.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 5 | Apr 18, 2013 | B | $16,368.71 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 6 | Jul 29, 2013 | B | -$1,453,071.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 7 | Aug 12, 2013 | C | $587,702.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 8 | Aug 21, 2013 | M | $0.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 9 | Oct 1, 2013 | M | $0.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 10 | Oct 3, 2013 | B | -$59,708.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 11 | Apr 21, 2014 | B | -$206,467.67 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 12 | May 8, 2014 | M | $0.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 13 | Aug 25, 2014 | C | -$73,545.39 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 14 | Aug 28, 2014 | C | $73,545.39 | $3,942,435.41 |
| 1A | Sep 13, 2022 | M | $0.00 | $3,942,435.41 |
Provenance
Which source record produced each displayed rollup figure.
| Field | Source | File | Retrieved | Parser | Artifact hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| awarding_agency_id | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 989a480133b1 |
| contractor_id | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 989a480133b1 |
| current_award_value | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 989a480133b1 |
| naics_code | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 989a480133b1 |
| potential_award_value | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 989a480133b1 |
| psc_code | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 989a480133b1 |
| total_obligated | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | 989a480133b1 |
Sources and method
Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.
This page is a record of one federal award, assembled from the transactions the government published against it. Note 1 describes where the rollup came from. Values are award values, not unit prices.
- 1Rollup values derive from 16 transaction records parsed from USAspending.gov, retrieved Aug 30, 2026 by transform awards@2026.08.1.
- 2Obligations are the sum of signed federal action obligations across all transactions; deobligations are negative and remain negative.
- 3Current and potential award values are taken from the latest reported action, not summed across modifications.