Federal contracting, in plain English
The government buys roofing, wiring, groundskeeping, machined parts, cleaning and repairs — from ordinary companies, in ordinary amounts. Across the trades we benchmark, 77 of 84 kinds of work typically award under $250,000, and the middle of the range is about $43,654. The hard part was never finding it. It was knowing which of it you are allowed to bid, and which you could realistically win.
No card required. Answer two questions and the list is scored for you — no federal track record needed.
Which is fine if you already know this world. If you do not, a list of six thousand titles is not a help — it is a second job. These are the questions that actually decide whether to spend your evening on a bid, and GovSprint answers them on every line.
A lot of federal work is reserved — for small businesses, for veteran-owned firms, for companies in particular programmes. If a job is closed to you, you are told so on the line, before you read a word of it. Nobody else tells you that.
Solicitations do not state a value. We measure what work like it has actually sold for, from the government’s own award records, and compare it to the biggest job you have delivered — so a two-truck firm is not reading a $5M contract.
Agencies publish what they intend to buy months ahead. In that window contact is welcome rather than restricted, and the listing names the person who owns the requirement, with their email and phone.
On work coming up for renewal, the current holder is often named outright, along with what comparable jobs paid and when the present contract runs out.
Enter your ZIP and everything is measured against it. For trades and field work, distance decides more bids than anything else, and jobs with no stated location are never quietly hidden.
A Sources Sought response, a compliance matrix of every stated requirement, a submission outline, the questions worth asking before the deadline. Written against the actual notice — and anything we do not know about you is marked needs input rather than invented, because a made-up claim to a contracting officer is worse than a blank.
Narrow the list once, save it under a name, and it comes back the way you left it. Mark what you are chasing and what you have ruled out, so tomorrow starts where today finished.
Which certifications you hold — small business, veteran-owned, woman-owned, 8(a), HUBZone — and the largest job you have delivered. That is the whole thing, and it takes about thirty seconds.
Neither answer needs a federal contract behind it. Commercial work counts, and by regulation a company with no federal record cannot be marked down for not having one. If you do have a track record, enter your UEI and we read what you have actually won and use that instead.
Open solicitations come from the SAM.gov daily extract. Work that has been announced but not yet solicited comes from agency acquisition forecasts, which name the requirement owner months before the paperwork exists. Award history, current holders and what comparable work paid come from USAspending. All are official federal sources, which is why the figures reflect what the government actually paid rather than what a vendor estimates — and why the page tells you how old the data is.
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Document allowances are ceilings, not targets — most teams use a fraction of them, and a draft you have already generated is never counted twice. The fourteen-day trial takes no card. After it, billing is monthly and you can cancel from your account page at any time — cancelling keeps your access until the end of the period you have paid for.
Tell us what you are certified for and the biggest job you have done. Every open solicitation and every forecast is then sorted into what you can bid, what is your size, and what is worth a phone call this week.
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