Federal Opportunities That Fit Your Firm, Once a Week
Sam Shortlist reads public contracting sources every week, drops what you can't bid, grades the rest for fit, and sends you one email. It's a free pilot for a few small-business contractors.
A Weekly Email, Plus Prime and Sub Research
Grade A: Pursue
A strong match on your work, and one you could bid on as prime.
Grade B: Sub Seats
A strong match that is better reached as a sub through a prime. Each one names a next step.
Grade C: Watch
A partial match, or an early notice you might help shape, like a request for information (RFI).
Deadlines Inside 30 Days
Grade A and B items due in the next 30 days, in one list.
Recompetes
Contracts in your NAICS codes ending in 6 to 18 months, with the incumbent and the dollar value.
Prime and Sub Research
Who wins work in your NAICS codes, and which primes sub it out, from USASpending.gov awards and subawards.
Where It Looks, and How It Grades
Hard gates drop what you can't bid, like set-asides you don't hold and deadlines too close to meet.
Keyword lanes score what is left. A lane is the set of words and codes for one line of your work.
Six fit factors grade each item: the contract vehicle, set-aside, size, place of work, competition, and time to respond.
- SAM.gov
- New contract notices, from sources sought to solicitations.
- Recompete radar
- USASpending.gov contracts in your NAICS codes ending in 6 to 18 months, before the re-buy posts.
- Agency forecasts
- What HUD, the Department of Education and HHS plan to buy, months before a notice reaches SAM.gov.
- Texas
- Open solicitations on the Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD), and Department of Information Resources (DIR) cooperative contracts ending in 6 to 18 months.
- SBIR and STTR
- Open topics in the federal small-business research programs, from DoD's DSIP portal, SBIR.gov and Grants.gov.
How the Pilot Works
It's a free pilot for a few small-business contractors. SDVOSB and VOSB firms, and primes looking for teaming partners, come first.
Email Us
Send your UEI, your NAICS codes, your set-aside status, and the kinds of work you want. No form, no account.
We Set Up Your Lanes
We build your lanes and gates by hand from what you send.
You Get One Email a Week
Graded opportunities, deadlines and recompetes, each week of the pilot.
Limits of the Pilot
- It's a pilot, run by one person.
- We set up each firm's lanes and keywords by hand, so we can take only a few firms.
- It finds and grades opportunities. It doesn't write your response to a sources sought or RFI, your quote to an RFQ, or your proposal to an RFP, and it can't promise an award.
- Its data is only as current as the public sources it reads.
Sam Shortlist is a Periphera tool. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by SAM.gov or the General Services Administration (GSA).