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Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source -Encyclopedia Britanica

DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE

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Response status

Historical record

Aug 28, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

This notice is no longer open.

Posted
Aug 24, 2026
Archive date
Sep 12, 2026
SAM status
Active
This is a preserved solicitation record. The response window is closed because the published deadline passed.

Answer-first brief

What the source record says

  • DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE published this special notice.
  • Competition is listed as No Set aside used.
  • The notice uses NAICS 519290 (Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services).

Procurement identity

Notice ID
a449026e52264233b8ed81e30479a277
Solicitation
FA805208202026A1
Base type
Special Notice
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
Special Notice
Solicitation number
FA805208202026A1
NAICS
519290 — Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services
PSC
7630 — NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
Set-aside
No Set aside used
Set-aside code
—
Posted
Aug 24, 2026
Responses due
Aug 28, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC
Archive date
Sep 12, 2026
Archive type
auto15
Base type
Special Notice
Organization type
AGENCY
Benchmark category
—
Category confidence
—
Category source
—
Last seen
Aug 29, 2026

Buyer and place

Office hierarchy and place of performance as published.

Department
DEPT OF DEFENSE
Department code
—
Subagency
DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE
Subagency code
—
Office
DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE
Organization path
—
Organization path codes
—
Office address
—
Place of performance
—
City code
—
State
—
State code
—
Postal code
—
Country
—

Points of contact

Contact details from the current notice version.

Notice description

Source text reproduced without an AI summary.

The Government has a requirement to procure a subscription to the digital version of Encyclopedia Britannica unlimited, simultaneous access and unlimited user access.

Comparable award range

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

No past awards scored highly enough to form a comparable range.

Comparable awards

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

No comparable awards are attached to this notice.

Amendment history

A version is preserved whenever the normalized notice contents change.

VersionNotice typeObservedResponses dueContent hash
1Special NoticeAug 26, 2026Aug 28, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC51de10d280af55b1
2Special NoticeAug 28, 2026Aug 28, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC37752400f8516f77

Record provenance

Field-level lineage for the current opportunity version.

FieldSourceSource as ofParserTransform
agency_nameSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
archive_dateSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
archive_typeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
base_typeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
contactsSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
descriptionSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
naics_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
notice_idSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
notice_typeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
office_nameSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
organization_typeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
posted_dateSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
psc_codeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
response_deadlineSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
sam_urlSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
set_aside_label_rawSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
solicitation_numberSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
subagency_nameSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
titleSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 2026sam_opportunity_snapshot@2026.08.22026.08.3
upstream_activeSAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesAug 26, 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.

  1. 1Notice fields come from the SAM.gov contract opportunities record last seen Aug 29, 2026. SAM.gov remains authoritative.

Note 1 covers the solicitation record. No synthetic FAQ or inferred solicitation value is published.

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