About this opportunity
AI summaryThe United States Patent and Trademark Office is conducting market research to identify commercially available, turnkey solutions for searching biological sequences and prior art claimed in patent applications. The agency seeks a next-generation system utilizing Super Intelligence-assisted capabilities to improve search quality and efficiency during patent examinations, as detailed in the draft Statement of Objectives. Only vendors responding to this Request for Information will be eligible for consideration to compete as prime offerors in a contemplated alternative competition. Interested respondents must complete Attachment 1, answering questions 1 through 6, and demonstrate that their offerings qualify as commercial products and services under FAR Part 2. Questions are due via email using Attachment 3 by 12:00 PM ET on November 6, 2026. Final RFI responses must be emailed to [email protected] and [email protected] by 12:00 PM ET on November 17, 2026.
Scope of work
- End-to-end biosequence search and alignment software and platform
- Patent document ingestion of claims, specifications, and sequence listings
- Comprehensive one-to-one nucleotide and protein alignment searching using standard algorithms
- Complex search enablement including fragments, patterns, regular expressions, and reverse complements
- Super Intelligence-assisted search strategy generation and sequence feature extraction
- Super Intelligence-driven search result assessment, clustering, and prioritization
- Human-in-the-loop feedback mechanisms preserving audit trails
- Modular, cloud-native bioinformatics platform deployed in USPTO AWS cloud
Minimum qualifications
- Solution and services must meet the definition of commercial products and services under FAR Part 2
Documents to include with your response
- RFI Attachment 1 – RFI Response Template (completed Corporate Profile and responses to Q.1-6)
Key dates
- Questions due
- no later than 12:00 PM ET on November 6, 2026
- RFI responses due
- no later than 12:00 PM ET on November 17, 2026
- Anticipated Phase 2 product demonstrations
- between December 1, 2026 and January 15, 2027
How to submit
- Method
- Instructions
- Submit completed Attachment 1 – RFI Response Template only via email to designated contacts with subject 'Biosequence PTAG RFI Response - Company Name'. No additional marketing materials.
Contract details
- Place of performance
- USPTO-hosted AWS cloud environment
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- ACQ-27-0065
- Agency
- Department of Commerce
- Buying office
- US Patent and Trademark Office › Dept of Commerce PTO
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Responses due
- Nov 17, 2026, 12:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Nov 4, 2026
- NAICS
- 518210 · Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
- Product/service code
- DH10
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- Place of performance
- Alexandria, VA, 22313
- Contracting contact
- Whitney Lee
Whitney.Lee@uspto.gov
5712727328 - Additional contact
- Brian Carper
brian.carper@uspto.gov
5712721665
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.
Incumbent and award research
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Market context
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