Award NoticeActiveACQ-26-1279
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistant Tools Patent Examination Modernization (Patent AI)
COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF / US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE / DEPT OF COMMERCE PTOKey dates?
- Posted?
- Jun 29, 2026
- Response deadline?
- —
- Archive date?
- —
- Archive type?
- auto15
Classification?
- Notice type?
- Award Notice
- Base type?
- Award Notice
- Set-aside?
- No Set aside used
- Set-aside code?
- NONE
- PSC?
- DA01
NAICS?
Issuing office?
- Department?
- COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF
- Sub-tier?
- US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
- Office?
- DEPT OF COMMERCE PTO
- Office code?
- —
- Organization type?
- OFFICE
- Office address?
- ALEXANDRIA, VA, 22314, USA
Place of performance?
- Street?
- —
- Street 2?
- —
- City?
- Alexandria
- State?
- VA
- Zip?
- 22313
- Country?
- USA
Contacts?
- David Sheppardprimary
- Robert Garskesecondary
Description?
The USPTO awarded a fixed-price, non-competitive, contract order to Four Points Technology, LLC via a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) #1333-LB-24-A-00001 with the United States Census Bureau issued pursuant to the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation 8.405-3 – Blanket Purchase Agreements, under GSA Multiple Award Schedule. This BPA allowed access to the patent examination tool developed by Google Cloud Platform and Patlytics, Inc. The tool provides comprehensive prior art search capabilities, automated claim mapping presented in a claim to citation chart that supports 35 U.S.C. 102, 103, and 112 analyses, and documented quality metrics for validating search and Office Action outputs. In addition, the vendor maintains a SOC 2 Type II attestation for information security controls and will be able to achieve FedRAMP certification within the required timeframe.
Award?
- Number?
- 1333LB24A00000001
- Amount?
- $13,651,931.00
- Date?
- —
- Awardee?
- FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C. Herndon VA 20171 USA
- UEI?
- —
- Awardee address?
- —
Other notices in this solicitation?
Similar open contracts
Metadata?
- Notice ID?
- 2e0888bb853c4ecfafbc9a0940b5e035
- Full path?
- COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF.US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE.DEPT OF COMMERCE PTO
- Office code?
- —
- Ingested?
- Jul 1, 2026
- Updated?
- Jul 11, 2026