Workflows

The federal record tells you what was posted, awarded and registered. We build these on top of it for you, through as many steps and as many datasets as the answer takes, and each returns its evidence with the answer, so you can check it instead of trusting it.

Contracting Offices is on every plan, free trial included, because it sizes a market and shows who buys in it. Every other workflow on this page is on Pro.

On a Pro key, some lookups of the federal record also carry Pro fields, computed by us, such as a firm's subaward revenue on its SAM registration. Which fields Pro adds to each dataset is on Capabilities.

Contracting Offices

Answers: Which contracting office actually buys my NAICS, and how contested is it?

How it works: rolls FPDS prime contract awards up to the contracting office, below the department and the agency.

Returns: the offices that buy a NAICS, ranked by spending, by openness or by set-aside share, each with its own obligations, contract and vendor counts, average number of offers, single-bidder share and set-aside share. Profile one office to see how it buys overall and the NAICS codes it buys most.

How far single offices sit from the market-wide average is shown on a real NAICS in the Contracting Offices guide.

Recompete Watchlist

Answers: Which contracts in my market come up for recompete, and what should I know about the incumbent before I decide to bid?

How it works: finds the FPDS prime contracts in your NAICS or agency that end inside a window you set, then joins the incumbent's exclusion status, its named subcontractors from subaward reports, and the live SAM.gov notices in the same market.

Returns: for each contract, the incumbent, the current value, the end dates and option runway, how it was competed and the offers it drew last time, and incumbent-stress signals (de-obligations, modification churn, a current exclusion), with the incumbent's named subcontractors. Beside the list, the live sources-sought and pre-solicitation notices in that market, each with the contracting officer's name, email and response deadline. Look up one contract to add the reasons its incumbent may be vulnerable, each with its evidence.

How the end dates tell a renewal from a real recompete, and a full pass through one market, are in the Recompete Watchlist guide.

Attachment Search

Answers: Which solicitations require CMMC, a security clearance or a Berry Amendment clause, when the requirement is written only in the attached documents?

How it works: extracts the text of the documents attached to SAM.gov notices (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and RTF files, documents recovered from inside archives, and scanned pages read by OCR) and indexes it for full-text search.

Returns: the notices whose documents match, through the content filter on opportunity search, combined with any other filter (NAICS, set-aside, place of performance, dates), each with links to its attachment files.

What a match inside a document does and does not tell you is in the Attachment Search guide.

Contracting Officer Contacts

Answers: How do I reach this contracting officer?

How it works: resolves the points of contact named on SAM.gov contract notices into one record per contact.

Returns: the people matching a name (narrowed by agency or state), or the one record for an email, each with email, phone, agency, department, location and the date they last appeared on a notice. Every SAM.gov notice already carries its own point of contact on every plan; this looks across all of them.

How to handle shared role inboxes and officers who share a name is in the Contracting Officer Contacts guide.

Company Profile

Answers: Who is this firm in federal contracting, what has it won, and who competes with it?

How it works: joins the firm's SAM registration, its SAM.gov award notices, its FPDS prime contracts, the subawards it received and its SBA profile on its UEI, then totals and ranks them.

Returns: registration status and expiry, award totals and recent activity, top agencies and NAICS codes with the dollars behind each, set-aside mix, FPDS contract totals, subaward revenue with the primes that paid it, the contract vehicles it holds, and its SBA profile. The award notices behind the totals are one call away, and peers come ranked by shared NAICS codes and agencies, with the overlap counts shown. A registered firm with no awards still returns a profile. No UEI yet? Search by name first.

Worked examples on real firms, from a large prime to a high-volume small business, are in the Company Profile guide.

SBA Small Business Profiles

Answers: Is this firm small for this NAICS under SBA's size standards, and which set-aside certifications does it actually hold?

How it works: matches SBA's small-business profiles to the firm's SAM UEI, keeping the certifications SBA verified apart from the ones the firm claims for itself.

Returns: the NAICS codes SBA rates the firm small for; its verified certifications (8(a), WOSB, EDWOSB, HUBZone, SDVOSB, VOSB), each with entrance date, exit date and status; its self-certifications, listed separately; and its capability narrative and keywords. The same profile comes with Company Profile.

Teaming Partner Finder

Answers: Who has actually won this kind of work, for this agency, in this place of performance or with this socioeconomic status?

How it works: ranks the firms holding matching FPDS prime contracts (by NAICS, agency, place-of-performance state, socioeconomic category, product or service code, or keywords), joins each to its SAM registration, and checks every firm against the active exclusion list.

Returns: firms ranked by dollars obligated, each with its contract count, last award date, socioeconomic categories, agencies, registration status, location, website and the company's own point of contact. When only a third-party registration agent is on file, it says so instead of passing the agent off as the company. A currently excluded firm is flagged with its exclusion record, never returned as a clean match.

Worked searches, and when to use this instead of federal contractor search, are in the Teaming Partner Finder guide.

Vendor Risk

Answers: Is there anything in the public record I should look at before working with this vendor?

How it works: screens a UEI against SAM.gov exclusions, the SAM entity registry and SAM.gov award notices, looking at the firms around it as well as the firm itself.

Returns: each signal with the records behind it: the firm's own exclusion status, other firms and individuals excluded at its address, excluded firms under a variant of its name, membership in a coordinated enforcement action, the days between its last award and an exclusion, and multiple CAGE codes. A triage category lists the reasons it was assigned, so a reviewer can read the signals and overrule it. Contract and subaward exposure show how much federal money flows to and through the firm. Screen one UEI, or a whole list in one request. The signals describe public-record relationships, not wrongdoing.

The triage rules and real exclusion cases are in the Vendor Risk guide.

Contract Price Benchmarks

Answers: What have contracts like this one paid, and where does my number sit?

How it works: computes the spread of values across comparable FPDS prime contracts, counted per contract rather than per modification, scoped by NAICS and optionally by product or service code, set-aside and agency.

Returns: percentiles of contract value, one block per contract pricing type, because a firm-fixed-price and a cost-plus contract in the same NAICS are not comparable. Send your own value and it returns that value's percentile rank and the real contracts nearest it, so a high rank can be checked against the work behind it. A market range for price analysis, not a price to win.

Where a benchmark fits next to price-to-win, an IGCE and FAR price analysis is in the Contract Price Benchmarks guide.

Renewal Radar

Answers: Which active SAM registrations expire soon, in a state, a NAICS or the whole registry?

How it works: reads expiration dates across the SAM entity registry and keeps the active registrations expiring inside a window you set.

Returns: each registration with its expiration date and the days left, most urgent first, filterable by state and NAICS.

Uses from subcontractor compliance checks to renewal reminders are in the Renewal Radar guide.

Two ways in

Every workflow runs on the REST API, and the API guide documents each one's parameters and response fields. The MCP server puts the same data, on the same key and under the same plan rules, inside Claude with nothing to install and inside Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP clients. How to connect each one, and every tool, are in the MCP tool reference.

Get a free key to try the API; prices, limits and the trial are on Pricing.