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PresolicitationAmendment 2

Professional Curatorial Supervision

U.S. EMBASSY MANAMA

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Response status

Due in 37 days

Oct 4, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

Responses remain open.

Posted
Aug 18, 2026
Archive date
Oct 19, 2026
SAM status
Active

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • U.S. EMBASSY MANAMA published this presolicitation.
  • Competition is listed as No Set aside used.
  • The notice uses NAICS 561499 (All Other Business Support Services).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
ff687a0e9be44bf0bb7622c6489dd2c8
Solicitation
19BA3026Q0003
Base type
Presolicitation
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
Presolicitation
Solicitation number
19BA3026Q0003
NAICS
561499 — All Other Business Support Services
PSC
R499 — SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: OTHER
Set-aside
No Set aside used
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Aug 18, 2026
Responses due
Oct 4, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Oct 19, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Presolicitation
Organization type
OFFICE
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Aug 29, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
STATE, DEPARTMENT OF
Department code
—
Subagency
STATE, DEPARTMENT OF
Subagency code
—
Office
U.S. EMBASSY MANAMA
Organization path
—
Organization path codes
—
Office address
WASHINGTON, DC, 20520, USA
Place of performance
—
City code
—
State
—
State code
BH-15
Postal code
—
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

Please note this solicitation is not ready to be issued as of this date. The Embassy of the United States in the Kingdom of Bahrain will launch the solicitation on the SAM.gov website when it is available. The Contractor shall provide professional curatorial supervision to: Plan, develop, and deliver a high-quality, culturally sensitive public exhibition celebrating Hamad and the Pirates (1971). All qualified sources may submit a quotation which will be considered. The Government intends to award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the lowest priced technically acceptable offeror who is a responsible contractor. The Government may award the contract based on the initial offer without discussion. The resultant contract will be a Fixed-Price Contract. The Government is planning a pre-quotation conference and the date for this conference will be in the solicitation. SAM registration is not required; however, qualified offerors must have a valid CAGE/N-CAGE code for verification.

Comparable award range

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

Low end (p25)$4,025
Median$4,450
High end (p75)$4,874
Comparable awards
2
Median
$4,450
Computed
Aug 21, 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
EO 14398 CONTRACT SPECIALIST: TECHNICAL OPERATIONS SPECIALISTONE TO ONE SECURITY LLC$5,299.20Aug 4, 202652Same product and service code (25), Same industry code (20), Recent enough to be relevant (7)
REPORTABLEFIRST AMERICAN DATA TREE LLC$3,600.00Aug 17, 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
1PresolicitationAug 20, 2026Oct 4, 2026, 1:00 PM UTCd89c82c341597475
2PresolicitationAug 28, 2026Oct 4, 2026, 1:00 PM UTCec0504bd65921a40

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

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agency_nameSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
archive_dateSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
archive_typeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
base_typeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
contactsSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
country_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
descriptionSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
naics_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
notice_idSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
notice_typeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
office_citySAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
office_country_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
office_nameSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
office_postal_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
office_state_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
organization_typeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
posted_dateSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
psc_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
response_deadlineSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
sam_urlSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
set_aside_label_rawSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
solicitation_numberSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
state_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
subagency_nameSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
titleSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
upstream_activeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 20, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3

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 29, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.
  2. 2Computed from 2 completed federal awards using comparables@2026.08.1, as of Aug 21, 2026. Award values are neither unit prices nor a forecast.
  3. 3Only 2 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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