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B--Sand, Sediment, and Critical Mineral Investigation

ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT DIVISION

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Response status

Due in 2 days

Aug 31, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC

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Posted
Aug 13, 2026
Archive date
Sep 15, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT DIVISION published this combined synopsis/solicitation.
  • Competition is listed as Small Business Set-Aside - Total.
  • The notice uses NAICS 541360 (Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
4c245edafc424d4f8840668f60f602f1
Solicitation
140M0126Q0018
Base type
Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Version
2 of 2

Solicitation facts

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

Notice type
Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Solicitation number
140M0126Q0018
NAICS
541360 — Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services
PSC
B529 — SPECIAL STUDIES/ANALYSIS- SCIENTIFIC DATA
Set-aside
Small Business Set-Aside - Total
Set-aside code
SBA
Posted
Aug 13, 2026
Responses due
Aug 31, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Sep 15, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Aug 30, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE
Department code
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Subagency
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Subagency code
—
Office
ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT DIVISION
Organization path
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Organization path codes
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Office address
STERLING, VA, 20166, USA
Place of performance
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City code
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State
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State code
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Postal code
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Country
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Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

Updated as of August 13, 2026: Responses are provided to questions and comments provided. The due date has not been extended. Please see documents in the attachments section for additional information. Sand, Sediment, and Critical Mineral Investigation in Federal Waters Offshore Louisiana (Ship Shoal) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Part 12. This is a small business set-aside. Please see the attached documents for the full solicitation.

Comparable award range

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

Low end (p25)$51,540
Median$233,286
High end (p75)$256,770
Comparable awards
5
Median
$233,286
Computed
Aug 16, 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
EXERCISE OF OPTION PERIOD 2 FOR SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR THE SATELLITE ANALYSES BRANCH PERIODPLANET LABS FEDERAL, INC.$256,770.00Jul 17, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
OR-KFFAWO-LIDAR DATA COLLECTIONAERO-GRAPHICS INC$368,398.75Apr 10, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH UPDATED FEDERAL GUIDANCE ANDCARLOS PABLO ESCOBAR$47,804.65Apr 2, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
N. KONGABLE - NEW SCNATALIE GRACE KONGABLE$51,540.00Jul 17, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
SNOW SURVEYS WITH DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCESSTATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES$233,285.50May 4, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)

Amendment history

A version is preserved whenever the normalized notice contents change.

VersionNotice typeObservedResponses dueContent hash
1Combined Synopsis/SolicitationAug 15, 2026Aug 31, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC5e92747b3be2336b
2Combined Synopsis/SolicitationAug 28, 2026Aug 31, 2026, 2:00 PM UTCc626da0ed09c288d

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 Aug 30, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 5 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Aug 16, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.
  3. 3Only 5 comparable awards were found. The range describes those records, not the market.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record; note 2 covers the comparable range; note 3 describes sample size. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.

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