Public prices involving NIST Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)
- Design and validation of a dual-use biology benchmark for AI models, built to order for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by SecureBio (firm fixed price delivery order, 23 Oct 2025 to 22 Jun 2026)
A fixed-price buy of benchmark design and validation from a nonprofit that is also in the winning consortium (with FAR AI and SaferAI) for the EU AI Office's CBRN risk-modelling lot. Competed under the simplified acquisition threshold (4 offers). A benchmark of questions and tasks rather than a runnable environment, so it sits at the evaluation end of the environment group.
The payer's own page, USAspending.gov award record (official API), NIST delivery order 1333ND26FNB100001 to SecureBio Inc
$331,800per delivery order (firm fixed price, about 8 months)
- Evaluation tasks for assessing the cybersecurity capabilities of frontier AI models, built to order for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by Tharros Defense (delivery order, labor-hours pricing, 1 Sep 2025 to 15 Oct 2026)
The only US federal award found in USAspending whose own description names evaluation tasks for frontier models as the deliverable. Signed 26 Aug 2025 as a delivery order under parent contract 1333ND24DNB770002 after full and open competition after exclusion of sources (2 offers), paid on labor hours, so the total reflects hours worked rather than a price per task. Obligation as modified to 21 Aug 2026; the ceiling with all options is $2,095,337.60. The record carries no task count.
The payer's own page, USAspending.gov award record (official API), NIST delivery order 1333ND25FNB100145 to Tharros Defense, Inc.
$813,679.52 obligated (ceiling with options $2,095,337.60)per delivery order (obligated to date)
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