Stopping $4 short of a $1.9 million wall: contracts from one open topic
An Army contract of about $1.9 million from an AI and machine learning open topic. Seven contracts from the same topic sit in these records, and none exceeds $1.9 million.
Contract key facts
- RecipientUBIHERE INC
- Contract value$1,899,996 (≈$1.9M)
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyDepartment of the Army
- Award typeDEFINITIVE CONTRACT
- Period of performance2024-04-11 〜 2025-10-10
- Contract ID (PIID)W5170124C0154
Contract scope (original)
SBIR PHASE II TOPIC A234-007, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)/MACHINE LEANRING (ML) OPEN TOPIC.
Key points
- The Army signed with UBIHERE INC on 11 April 2024 for $1,899,995.78.
- The description records SBIR Phase II, open topic A234-007, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- Of the 222 federal spending records this site holds as of 2026-09-06, seven come from that topic.
- Those seven range from $1.887m to $1.900m, with the highest one cent below $1.9 million.
1What an open topic is
Small Business Innovation Research is how the government funds research and development at small firms. A call usually names the problem to be solved; an open topic invites proposals without fixing the subject in detail. A234-007, named in this description, is an open topic for AI and machine learning.
2Seven stopping before the same wall
Ordered by amount, the seven show an upper end that stops without touching $1.9 million.
The highest is one cent below $1.9 million. The spread across the seven is $12,710.24, or 0.7% of the amount. A call that left the subject open produced proposals clustered at almost a single figure.
3What is actually being bought
The description carries the programme name, the phase, the topic number and the field. What will be built cannot be read from this record. What can be read is that the Army placed the order, that it is a definitive contract, and that the period runs from 11 April 2024 to 10 October 2025. The outlay field holds zero.
The next article takes up a contract 57 cents away from this one.
Why it matters
Contracts from one call cannot be read for meaning individually. Grouped by topic, the proposals turn out to sit against an effective ceiling.
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Sources (primary)
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- Contract ID (PIID)：W5170124C0154