Contract award
DECIBEL RESEARCH, INC.
- PIID
- 0005
- Award key
- CONT_AWD_0005_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.
- 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, 2015 — Jan 31, 2017Through Jan 31, 2017 if all options are exercised
- Benchmark category
- Engineering Services
Against comparable awards
Where this award sits in the published Engineering Services distribution.
At $9,903,834, this award is above the top quartile. The median is $808,315 across 11,641 comparable awards.
Comparison uses the same measure (current award value) and the snapshot published Sep 26, 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 13, 2015 | Initial award | $1,550,000.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 1 | Dec 3, 2015 | C | $122,777.70 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 2 | Dec 10, 2015 | G | $60,842.80 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 3 | Jan 8, 2016 | C | $1,365,000.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 4 | Feb 11, 2016 | C | $3,823,577.98 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 5 | Mar 23, 2016 | C | $133,848.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 6 | Jun 29, 2016 | B | $384,986.16 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 7 | Jul 8, 2016 | B | $1,434,732.38 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 8 | Jul 25, 2016 | C | $462,223.07 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 9 | Oct 17, 2016 | B | $0.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 10 | Feb 8, 2017 | M | $0.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 11 | Mar 2, 2017 | M | $0.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 12 | Mar 22, 2017 | C | -$394,320.66 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 13 | May 25, 2017 | M | $0.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 14 | Sep 28, 2017 | M | $0.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 15 | Jun 29, 2022 | C | -$208,522.22 | $9,903,833.59 |
| 1A | Apr 13, 2023 | M | $0.00 | $9,903,833.59 |
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 | f67e82c9b1db |
| contractor_id | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | f67e82c9b1db |
| current_award_value | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | f67e82c9b1db |
| naics_code | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | f67e82c9b1db |
| potential_award_value | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | f67e82c9b1db |
| psc_code | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | f67e82c9b1db |
| total_obligated | USAspending.gov | — | Aug 30, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.2 | f67e82c9b1db |
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 17 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.