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HR001124C0378 DARPA JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION

DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY · Boston, Massachusetts, 02210

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Response status

Active notice

Not published

SAM.gov has not published a response deadline.

Posted
Oct 16, 2026
Archive date
Nov 15, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY published this justification.
  • The place of performance is Boston, Massachusetts.
  • The notice uses NAICS 541714 (Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
0feb80306a5c403ebfb82be750435479
Solicitation
HR001124C0378
Base type
Award Notice
Version
1 of 1

Solicitation facts

Structured fields from the current SAM notice version. A dash means the source did not publish a value.

Notice type
Justification
Solicitation number
HR001124C0378
NAICS
541714 — Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology)
PSC
AC12 — NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; APPLIED RESEARCH
Set-aside
—
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Oct 16, 2026
Responses due
Not published
Archive date
Nov 15, 2026
Archive type
auto30
Base type
Award Notice
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Oct 21, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
DEPT OF DEFENSE
Department code
—
Subagency
DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
Subagency code
—
Office
DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
Organization path
—
Organization path codes
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Office address
ARLINGTON, VA, 222032114, USA
Place of performance
Boston, Massachusetts, 02210
City code
—
State
Massachusetts
State code
MA
Postal code
02210
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Award outcome

Outcome fields appear only when SAM published them on this notice.

Award number
HR001124C0378
Award date
Oct 16, 2026
Award amount
—
Line item
—
Awardee
—
Awardee UEI
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Awardee CAGE
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Awardee location
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Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

The Ice Control for cold Environments (ICE) program BAA was solicited on August 15, 2022, for the purpose of seeking to develop solutions for extreme cold weather DoW operational challenges by discovering and optimizing biologically sourced or inspired molecules to enable tuned inhibition or nucleation of ice crystallization, propagation, and adhesion. The ICE BAA was solicited for Phase I and Phase II with a notional Phase III that was to be solicited at a later date. This justification provides the rationale for awarding a sole-source modification to the current Phase II contractor, to continue this work into Phase III under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, "Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements."

Comparable award range

Historical award values for work matched by the fixed rubric—not an estimate of this opportunity.

Low end (p25)$1,268,908
Median$2,776,393
High end (p75)$5,592,275
Comparable awards
50
Median
$2,776,393
Computed
Nov 5, 2026
Rubric
comparables@2026.08.1
Comparable award values describe completed contracts. They do not state the government's budget and are not a bid recommendation.

Comparable awards

The match score is decomposed so each comparison can be challenged.

AwardContractorValueAwardedScoreWhy it matched
WASTE UPCYCLING FOR DEFENSE (WUD)PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.$1,944,308.00Apr 20, 202660Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
PI CHANGESOLVUS GLOBAL LLC$999,914.00Apr 14, 202660Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DARPA RESEARCH PROGRAMTHE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.$7,213,748.00May 16, 202458Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (5)
FUNDAMENTAL MODELING OF DEFECTS AND MATERIAL INTERFACES FOR DEVICE PHYSICS IN RADIATION ENRXFF CONSULTING LLC$249,999.88Apr 30, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
STTR II - RAPID ADDITIVE MIRROR PROCESSES (RAMP) PHASE II ST-22.1A_PHII_STTR_AF22A-T002MORPHOPTIC, INC.$1,249,879.00Apr 8, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
RAPID RESILIENT REEFS FOR COASTAL DEFENSE (R3D)UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII$22,335,922.00Apr 16, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
PHASE II SBIR ROBUST OPERATIONAL ULTRA-HIGH THROUGHPUT CELL LINEAGE TRACKING FOR RAPID BIOBIFROST BIOSYSTEMS INC$2,968,910.00Mar 16, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DARPA TRIAGE CHALLENGEBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$2,999,993.00Mar 9, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
DARPA TRIAGE CHALLENGEMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY$1,747,579.00Mar 3, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
ASSURED MICROBIAL PRESERVATION IN HARSH OR REMOTE AREASBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$3,230,474.00Mar 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
HERMESNEW YORK UNIVERSITY$5,567,298.00Apr 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
BIOLOGICAL UNDERSEA ENERGY (BLUE)UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK$8,120,541.00Apr 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTINNEOS LLC$999,736.00Mar 5, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTMAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP$1,295,721.00Jun 14, 202348Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (3)
THE RASP PROGRAM FOCUSES ON DEMONSTRATING ENHANCED RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING (SP) CAPABILITIRAYTHEON COMPANY$22,856,138.00May 5, 202647Same industry code (20), Same product and service code (12), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
SOFTWARE VEHICLE CONTROL INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION PHASE IIIAUTONODYNE LLC$17,517,369.77May 1, 202640Same product and service code (25), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
THE MAINSAIL PROGRAM IS A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORT AIMED AT DEVELOPING AUTONOMOUS CSYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC$6,768,474.00Mar 24, 202640Same product and service code (25), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
AFWERX CHALLENGE PROJECT - AFFORDABLE UAS POWER GENERATIONF2P LLC$2,444,702.00Mar 9, 202640Same product and service code (25), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
SEE SECTION J, NON-PROPRIETARY STATEMENT OF WORK - HIGH TEMPERATURE SYNTACTIC FOAM FOR LANPHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.$1,249,994.00Apr 22, 202640Same product and service code (25), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
EXTENDING PERFORMANCE LIMITS OF RESONANT ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH IMPROVED/OPTIMIZED MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC.$799,493.00Mar 11, 202640Same product and service code (25), Same place of performance (8), Recent enough to be relevant (7)

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

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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.

Comparable awards are scored on benchmark category, product and service code, industry code, buyer, place, recency, and contract type. Rubric version comparables@2026.08.1.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Oct 21, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 50 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Nov 5, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record; note 2 covers the comparable range. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.