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Organized by the job you're trying to get done: not by our internal feature taxonomy. Find every relevant RFP. Score every opportunity. Manage every pursuit. Use AI on your terms.
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The job
Business-development leads. Solo contractors. Founders.
Government procurement is fragmented across thousands of portals. SAM.gov is just the federal layer: the state, local, education, transit, and healthcare markets each have their own systems, and many of them require account registration just to view the title. BidSparq's discovery layer scrapes them all, normalizes the data, and ranks every active opportunity against your specific business profile.
SAM.gov, Grants.gov, FPDS, state portals across all 50 states, IonWave, Bonfire, PlanetBids, OpenGov, BidNet, NYC OpenData, USAspending subawards, GovInfo, GovCB, and every direct-portal scraper we maintain. New sources added based on user requests: see the live source list on the dashboard.
Every RFP is scored against your NAICS codes, set-aside eligibility, geographic preference, contract-size band, certifications, past performance, and capability statements. The scorer combines a Shipley-style Pwin calculation with capability fit, then explains the score in plain English. Your top 25 matches surface daily on the dashboard.
Search the full title + description across every active RFP. Useful when you're prospecting by keyword (e.g. "cybersecurity", "asphalt overlay") rather than relying solely on AI matching.
Search inside every attached PDF, Word doc, and Excel sheet, not just the title and description. Find RFPs that mention specific clauses ("FedRAMP Moderate", "women-owned subcontracting goal", "CMMC Level 2"), solicitation numbers, or the buried requirements that quietly filter out unqualified bidders. Covers 100,000+ RFP documents.
When a new RFP matches your profile, you get an email within minutes: not on the next morning's digest. Speed alerts capture pre-solicitation notices and short-window RFPs you'd otherwise miss. Configurable per profile. Speed alerts fire from your AI profile, catching fits you did not think to search for; saved-search alerts below fire from the exact keywords you name. The two cover different misses.
Save any search as a standing watch: keywords, NAICS codes, a value range, and a location radius of 5 to 500 miles from any of 71,976 US cities, towns, and counties. New matches arrive by email and in your Slack or Teams channel, and every search has a map view with the distance to each bid. Statewide postings stay visible and clearly labeled instead of silently dropped. In supported regions you can go beyond crow-flies distance and filter by real drive time (within 90 minutes of your office, for example), computed on the actual road network.
Most alert services scan the posting title and description and stop there. A BidSparq saved search watches your keywords in bid titles, descriptions, AND the full text of every attached document: the specs, the scopes of work, the line-item sheets. If your product or capability is named on page 40 of a PDF, you get the alert. Title-only alert tools never see it. These watches fire from keywords you name; speed alerts above fire from your AI profile. Together they catch both the bids you know to ask for and the ones you did not.
How document-deep alerts work →Watch your own brand, a competitor's product, or any spec language across every active bid and its documents. Manufacturers and resellers use this to know the moment their product line is named in a solicitation anywhere in the country: no portal checking, no missed spec-in opportunities. Set it once and the watch runs against every new bid we ingest.
Search results tell you exactly why each bid appeared. An exact match means your terms literally appear in the bid or its documents. A Related (AI) label means our AI judged it similar even though your exact terms may not appear. Alerts only email exact matches, so your inbox never fills with guesses. Most tools blur these together; we think you should know when AI is inferring.
Filter by 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB/EDWOSB, SDVOSB, Small Business, and full-and-open. Match on an exact NAICS code or a 4-digit prefix (e.g. 5415 catches every IT-services code at once): so you never miss a related opportunity because of a code variant.
Top-25 matches delivered to your inbox, ranked by AI score with one-line reasoning per RFP. Skips the dashboard checkin habit. Configurable to switch off in favor of speed alerts.
79,000+ federal contract vehicles, GWACs, GSA Schedules, BPAs, IDIQs, and BOAs, the umbrella contracts agencies place orders under. "Get on a vehicle" is the advice everyone gives; this is how you find which ones. Browse and filter by NAICS, agency, set-aside, or type, and for each vehicle see who holds it, how much of its ceiling is still unspent, when its ordering window closes, and when a recompete is likely. Task-Order Intelligence on every vehicle: quarterly order velocity, vendor win-share leaderboard, and set-aside utilization breakdown. 1,482 per-SIN schedule pages and 527 per-NAICS vehicle pages cover every major industry slice. GSA CALC+ pricing: 300,000+ published labor rates across 6,015 vendors on MAS Schedules: full rate cards plus a direct link to the official gsaadvantage.gov pricelist. Ask the AI: "Which GWACs can my company get on?", "Compare SEWP V and Alliant 2," "What's the median rate for a Senior Software Engineer?", "When will OASIS recompete?" Every figure links back to its USAspending or CALC+ source record so you can verify it.
Every vendor profile pulls in their public-company SEC EDGAR filings when applicable, most-recent 10-K annual report, 10-Q quarterly, 8-K material events, with one-click links to the full filings on SEC.gov. Public 10-Ks often disclose federal-revenue concentration, named risk factors tied to specific contracts, and segment-level financial performance: capture-grade intel that competing platforms paywall at enterprise tiers. For health, biotech, university, and academic-medical vendors, we also surface their NIH RePORTER research-grant history: total awards, total funded $, top projects, top NIH institutes. Two free revenue-stream signals that tell you whether a contractor is publicly-traded, R&D-focused, or both. Both panels resolve automatically from the vendor's legal name; private contractors and non-research firms see clean empty states, not broken fields.
We mirror the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, 1,607 software vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild, and scan every cyber-relevant RFP for affected vendor/product mentions. When an RFP names tech with an open KEV entry, you see an urgency tier (high / medium / low) plus the matching CVEs and whether they're tied to known ransomware campaigns. Agencies under BOD 22-01 remediation deadlines push these contracts with compressed timelines and higher willingness to pay. A browsable /security/cve-watch index surfaces the daily-refreshed catalog with affected-vendor sidebars. Ask the AI: "Is this cyber RFP urgent?", it scans the title, description, and what we know about the tech named, then returns a tiered answer.
Every agency profile now leads with two live data panels. First: a 6-year contract-obligation trend from USAspending showing whether the agency's procurement spend is growing, flat, or shrinking, with the most-recent fiscal year's top 10 recipients. Second: a Treasury Monthly Treasury Statement panel showing fiscal-year-to-date total outlays against the prior year, the leading indicator analysts use to predict year-end push windows. Combined, you can answer "Should I lean into this agency right now?" with hard numbers instead of analyst commentary. Both panels resolve only for federal toptier agencies; sub-tier strings and state/local agencies hide the panels cleanly.
Every NAICS-keyed contract-vehicle page now leads with a commercial wage benchmark from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the actual average weekly wage paid by private-sector employers in that industry, with year-over-year change, workforce size, and a per-ownership breakdown (federal vs state vs local vs private). For NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design), private-sector wages averaged $2,913/week ($151K annualized) in 2024 Q1 across 1.14 million workers. Combined with the GSA Schedule rates we already publish, capture teams can compute the federal-vs-commercial pricing premium for any rate: answering "is my Schedule rate competitive?" with hard data instead of guesswork. Covers 294 NAICS codes representing every active federal contract vehicle in our catalog. Source: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, refreshed quarterly when BLS releases new data.
Federal Schedule labor rates are typically renegotiated annually, but agencies and contractors both need to know what's coming. We pull the latest Employment Cost Index (ECI) live from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: civilian total compensation growth, civilian wages and salaries, and private-industry wages, each as a year-over-year percentage from the most recent quarter. The current ECI shows civilian total compensation growing 3.8% YoY (Q4 2024). Use it as a forecast for what Schedule rates will need to climb to stay competitive, and as input for your next contract-renewal pricing strategy. Available via the AI chat: just ask "What's wage growth doing?"
Two free risk gates on every vendor profile, surfaced automatically. SAM.gov debarment check: if the vendor is on the federal active-exclusion list, a red banner at the top of their profile shows the exclusion type, excluding agency, dates, and comments. Submitting a proposal that includes a debarred subcontractor is grounds for protest, contract termination, and reputational damage. The banner only renders when there's an actual exclusion; clean vendors see nothing. Federal Audit Clearinghouse findings: for vendors that file Single Audits (nonprofits, universities, state/local governments, large grant recipients), we surface their audit history with auto-computed risk tier: high if recent material weaknesses or going-concern doubt, medium for significant deficiencies, low for clean audits with minor findings. The signal tells you whether teaming with this vendor adds risk before you commit. Both fully automated from official federal sources: sam.gov and api.fac.gov: with no manual curation. Tell the AI chat "Is [vendor] debarred?" or "Audit findings for [vendor]" and it routes through the same data.
Most procurement-intelligence platforms surface federal-award data from USAspending, which lags 24-72 hours behind contracting-officer action. For recompete signals and speed alerts, that gap is the difference between catching the news and missing it. We pull the FPDS-NG Atom feed twice daily: FPDS is the system contracting officers report to FIRST, and entries appear within about four hours of award signing. The data feeds the same /vehicles/[id] task-order panels and the recent_federal_awards AI chat tool, so when you ask "what was signed this week on [vehicle]?", the answer reflects what got signed yesterday, not what hit USAspending three days from now.
The job
Capture managers. Solo bidders deciding where to spend proposal hours.
Most contractors lose money on the wrong bids: not the lost ones, but the ones they should never have started. Bid/no-bid is the most-leveraged decision in your business. BidSparq makes the decision quantitative: every RFP comes pre-scored, with explicit win probability, a compliance matrix, and a wired-risk composite that flags opportunities likely already locked.
Open any RFP and chat with an AI that has read its documents. Ask "what's the actual scope?", "who's the likely incumbent?", "what are the evaluation weights?", or "draft me a proposal outline", and get answers grounded in that specific RFP, not generic boilerplate. 25 messages/day on the free trial; unlimited on Pro Max (fair-use).
Every scored RFP gets a verdict: Bid / Borderline / Pass. Backed by a Shipley-method win probability (0-100), a confidence band, and the 5 sub-factor scores (capability, past performance, set-aside fit, geography, complexity). You can see exactly why the score is what it is.
Reads the RFP, pulls out every mandatory requirement (the "shall" and "must" statements), and lays them out as a checklist with the source page for each one. Catches the requirement buried in subsection 5.3.2.b that would otherwise sink your proposal at evaluation.
Six tell-tale signs that an RFP may already be locked up for an incumbent, a repeat-winner incumbent, a response deadline too short for the scope, intent-to-award language, brand-name lock-in, a suspiciously thin scope on a high-value contract, and competitor-specific requirements: combined into one 0-100 risk score. A high score is your cue to walk away before you sink proposal hours into a bid you were never going to win.
Deep-dive: How to spot a wired contract, 6 signals →When an RFP looks like the recompete of an existing contract, we surface the incumbent, the period of performance, and the dollar trajectory, so you know who you're up against. Plus a "Similar Active RFPs" panel that finds other open opportunities across your sources that look like this one.
Every RFP has a person behind it, a contracting officer, a procurement specialist, or a group mailbox. Beacon is BidSparq's buyer-side contact graph: 85,978 procurement officers pulled from real solicitation history. On every RFP detail page, a card shows how many solicitations that contact has posted and across how many agencies: instant context on whether you're dealing with a frequent buyer, a niche specialist, or a one-off. Also queryable from the AI chat. Built from real procurement records, not a purchased list. No bulk export, no mass-mail: private by design.
Deep-dive: Beacon, 85,978 procurement officers, queryable from your AI chat →Click the AI score to see what factors are dragging your fit down. Capability gaps, past-perf shortfalls, set-aside ineligibility, geo mismatch, complexity bracket: each one explained, sourced, and linked to the requirement that triggered it.
The job
Anyone bidding against an incumbent. Manufacturers and resellers. Capture leads sizing a new market.
The RFP tells you what the buyer wants. It does not tell you who has been winning that work, at what price, or whether the incumbent ever faced real competition. BidSparq's Market Intelligence layer answers those questions from the historical record: 2.3M+ federal awards, 1.6M+ past solicitations, 28M+ priced state and local purchase lines, and the cooperative purchasing catalogs that most tools ignore entirely.
One page, auto-scoped to your NAICS codes: the competitor leaderboard with your own rank (number 12 of 87, say), whether the market is growing or shrinking, the set-aside mix with the share your certifications qualify you for, the agencies that buy this work, and the primes that hire subcontractors in your space. Every number clicks through to the awards behind it, so nothing is a black box.
How Market Intelligence works →Federal RFP pages carry an incumbent panel built from the award record: the contracts at that buyer in that NAICS whose period of performance is ending, who holds them, at what value, and how they were competed. A sole-source flag or a single offer received last time changes your bid strategy more than anything in the solicitation text. There is also a recompete radar: 138,000+ federal contracts enter their final 12 months at any given time, and you can filter them to your space, your certifications, and your minimum contract size.
A growing share of public-sector purchasing never becomes a public RFP: it flows through cooperative contracts. BidSparq catalogs the awarded vendors of NASA SEWP, NASPO ValuePoint, TIPS, OMNIA Partners, E&I, and Internet2 NET+, with contract numbers and expiry dates, plus 28M+ priced state and local purchase lines that show which reseller supplied which brand to which buyer at what price. Look up any competitor and see every channel their products move through.
All of it is queryable in plain English from the AI chat: past contracts for a named competitor, who buys this kind of work, what an incumbent's history looks like, which purchasing vehicles a brand is on. Answers cite the records and link into the app. Company lookups are available on every plan; the interactive Market Intelligence pages are Pro and up.
The job
BD teams. Capture managers. Anyone tracking 5+ pursuits at once.
Tracking pursuits in spreadsheets dies the moment your pipeline grows past 5-10 active opportunities. Pursuits is BidSparq's capture-management hub: one URL per opportunity, with pipeline forecasting, AI-scored fit, custom capture fields, threaded notes, file storage, and an auto-logged activity timeline. Built for the small contractor who would love GovWin Pursuits but can't justify the $25K/year price tag.
See the weighted dollar value of your whole pipeline at a glance. Each pursuit is weighted by its win probability (Shipley Pwin) and the stage-by-stage conversion rates from your own bid history: so the forecast reflects how your business actually closes, not a generic average. A waterfall view shows raw potential next to the weighted total, so you can tell an optimistic pipeline from a real one.
Deep-dive: Forecasting your pipeline, Shipley Pwin math →Your personalized fit score, Shipley Pwin, and bid/no-bid verdict; the factor breakdown behind the score; the wired-risk read; recompete detection; your top compliance gaps; days remaining; and a "what to focus on" panel: all on one card for each pursuit. Everything you need to brief the opportunity without opening five tabs.
Eleven ready-made capture fields, period of performance, capture budget, primary contact, win theme, response strategy, competitor assessment, internal owner, estimated effort, plus room for your own custom fields. Changes save as you type, and every edit is logged to the pursuit's timeline so you can always see what shifted and when.
Discussion threads with replies, editable in place and deletable per note. The activity timeline automatically captures every status change, note, file upload, field update, and next-action change, and it's pre-populated from your existing bid history, so it's never empty even for pursuits you've been tracking for a while.
Drag-and-drop upload for capture briefs, proposal drafts, RFI responses, and references, up to 100MB per file. Every file is private to you and that pursuit, served over secure expiring links so nothing is ever publicly exposed. Categorize files for fast retrieval; deleting one keeps its reference in the timeline.
Set a date and a one-line description of the next thing that needs to happen. Within 14 days, the pursuit card lights up with days remaining: red when overdue, amber within three days, otherwise indigo: so a deadline never quietly slips past you.
For every pursuit, we surface the five most-similar active RFPs from your sources, so you can spot adjacent opportunities you haven't saved yet, or catch when you're accidentally tracking the same deal twice.
The job
Power users. AI-first BD teams. Anyone already using Claude or ChatGPT.
Most procurement tools treat AI as a search-bar add-on. BidSparq treats it as the primary interface. The same tools that power the in-app AI chat are exposed through an MCP server: so Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any AI client that supports MCP can query BidSparq directly, inside the workflow you already use. No new tab to learn, no separate dashboard to check.
Ask questions in plain English across 60,000+ active RFPs, 1.8M+ closed RFPs, 2,000,000+ federal awards, 100,000+ subawards, 19,000 SAM-registered vendors, and 85,978 procurement officers. It can search by meaning, filter, pull RFP details, find recompetes, profile an agency, analyze set-aside opportunity, size up the competition, surface pricing intel, look up a vendor's win history, find the buyer's contacts, and match opportunities to your profile. 25 messages/day on the free trial; unlimited on Pro Max (fair-use).
Open any RFP and chat against just that document, 33 tools focused on that one solicitation. Summarize it, extract the compliance items, pull the evaluation criteria, find similar pursuits, draft a proposal outline, explain your win-fit, surface agency intel, find the buyer's contacts, and more. Shares the same quota as the main chat (25/day on the free trial, unlimited on Pro Max).
Install one URL in Claude Desktop or Cursor and BidSparq's tools appear in your AI client's tool list. Secure sign-in, listed in the official MCP Registry as com.bidsparq/mcp. Same daily quota as the in-app chat: no per-request fees.
Deep-dive: Using Claude/ChatGPT to monitor RFPs →Generate a personal API key for programmatic access, tied to your account. Use it to build custom dashboards, wire up automations (n8n, Zapier, Make), or power your own AI agents.
Anyone on bidsparq.com can ask the AI 3 questions without signing up. Useful for tire-kicking the matching quality before committing to a trial. Public chat is intentionally limited (no personalized scoring, no per-RFP tools) but proves the platform's capabilities.
Paste a Slack webhook URL into Settings → Notifications and get cleanly formatted alerts in your channel for: high-scoring new matches (RFPs scoring 80+ against your profile), pursuit deadline reminders, pursuit stage changes (Teams), and recompete detection. No app to install, no per-message fees. Works on every plan including the trial. 2-minute setup.
Setup guide: Get RFP alerts in Slack →No. You can search, get matched, and track opportunities immediately. You'll need SAM registration to actually bid on federal contracts (it's free), but state, local, and education bids mostly don't require it. BidSparq works from day one either way.
Yes, if you point it at the right market. New contractors win first at the state, local, and school-district level, where past-performance requirements are lighter and competition thinner. The AI score tells you which openings fit a first-time bidder, and the recompete data shows where incumbents are vulnerable.
Portal alerts watch one portal and match on titles. BidSparq watches 23,000+sources at once, reads the attached documents, scores every bid against your business 0 to 100, and explains the score. The difference shows up as bids you'd never have seen and hours you don't spend checking portals.
Yes. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, and paid plans carry a 30-day money-back guarantee. The 14-day trial shows you your actual matches before you pay anything, so you're never guessing whether your market is covered.
The dashboard pricing page has the full comparison matrix: every feature, every tier, with the limits and inclusions spelled out.
14-day free trial: no credit card required. 30-day money-back guarantee on paid plans.