The tool collects opportunities once into a shared database and matches them against every company profile. Every opportunity links back to its original posting, which is always the authoritative version.
Where opportunities come from
Open Monitored Sources (/sources) for the live list: what each source covers, how it is read, how often, when it last worked and how many open opportunities it holds.
| Kind | Sources | How we read them |
|---|---|---|
| Federal contracts | SAM.gov Contract Opportunities | Official API, every morning |
| Federal grants | Grants.gov (Simpler.Grants.gov) | Official API, every morning |
| SBIR and STTR | DoD topics (DSIP); SBIR.gov solicitations | DSIP file imported by an administrator; SBIR.gov API paused while it refuses requests |
| Procurement forecasts | GSA Acquisition Gateway (ten agencies), DHS APFS, Department of Energy | The public data behind each agency's forecast page, daily (DOE weekly) |
| State bids | Florida Vendor Bid System; Texas TxDOT highway lettings | Florida's public bid search, daily; Texas open-data API, daily |
| Awards and agencies | USAspending.gov; Federal Register agency list | Official APIs, daily (agency lists weekly) |
| Your requests | Sites other users asked for and an administrator approved | A feed, or a public listing page that the site permits us to read |
Forecasts are planned buys, not solicitations. They show Expected instead of Respond by, carry no response deadline, and are scored as early-stage opportunities.
How fresh is it?
Every opportunity card and page has a line such as Verified 3 h ago on SAM.gov. It is the last time a scan found the opportunity at its source. Hover over it (or use a screen reader) for the exact time in Eastern time.
- A line in the warning colour means the opportunity has not been re-verified for more than 48 hours. It may have changed or closed at the source: check the original posting before acting.
- New SAM.gov notices normally appear the morning after they are posted. SAM.gov limits our requests to 10 a day, so on a heavy day the rest arrive the next morning.
- Each source's page shows its recent scans: new, updated and unchanged records, requests used, errors, and the median time from publication to collection.
- USAspending award data lags the award by days to weeks, and Department of Defense awards by 90 days.
The same opportunity in two places
When two sources list the same opportunity (the same solicitation number, or the same title, agency and deadline day), the tool keeps one record and shows Also listed on with a link to the other. Matching, alerts and digests use the official federal record first (SAM.gov, then Grants.gov, then DSIP), so you are not alerted twice.
Manual check sources
Some sites cannot be read automatically, and the tool never tries:
- Login only: GSA eBuy (schedule holders' RFQs).
- Robots.txt, terms or a security banner forbid it: DLA DIBBS, Navy NECO, FedConnect, Texas ESBD, New York State Contract Reporter, Bonfire, DemandStar.
- Behind a CAPTCHA or bot challenge: Cal eProcure, Virginia eVA, PlanetBids, BidNet Direct, OpenGov Procurement.
They are listed under Manual check on Monitored Sources with a link. Open them yourself, signed in where you have an account.
Ask for a new source
- Open Monitored Sources and choose Request a source.
- Enter the address of the procurement page, for example a city's bid list, and say what it lists.
- The tool reads the site's robots.txt and looks for an API, an RSS or Atom feed, a sitemap or a public listing page, then tells you what it found. It never signs in or answers a CAPTCHA.
- An administrator reads the site's terms. If automated reading is allowed, the source is approved and scanned every morning for every customer. If not, it is listed as a manual check, or the request is declined with a reason. You see the outcome under Your requests.
You can send up to 10 requests a day.
What is not covered
- Login-only portals and any site whose terms or robots.txt forbid automated reading.
- Most state and local bids outside Florida and TxDOT, until a feed or a permitted page is approved through a request.
- Classified or controlled solicitations are never collected or stored.
If you know of a notice that should be here and is not, search for it in Discover by its solicitation number, then tell support with the number.