The procurement desk your BD team would hire, if they could
Every year, billions of dollars in contracts get awarded on the basis of RFPs that were technically public the whole time. The problem isn’t access — it’s that the portals are ugly, scattered, and nobody on your side has time to refresh them.
This handles the refresh.
What it does
- Watches SAM.gov, state procurement portals, city e-procurement sites, and any agency buyer page your team adds.
- Pulls every new solicitation as it posts — RFP, RFQ, ITB, sources sought.
- Writes a short brief on each match: what’s being bought, from whom, how big, by when, and the two paragraphs of the scope you actually need to read.
- Matches against your pipeline rules — NAICS codes, keywords, dollar thresholds, named buyers.
- Sends the brief to the right account team the day the RFP posts.
The reveal
A state DOT posts a $40M maintenance RFP Tuesday at 3pm. By 3:30 your BD lead has a brief in their inbox with the scope summary, the deadline, the pre-bid conference date, and a link to the full PDF. Two weeks of lead time, not two days.
What it doesn’t do
No bid-writing. No pricing. No “should we pursue this?” It tells you what’s on the street and what they’re asking for; your team decides what to chase.
Configuration
- Watched portals: the procurement sites to crawl.
- Match rules: NAICS, keywords, dollar thresholds, named buyers, geography.
- Notification rules: who gets pinged on a match vs. who gets the weekly rollup.
Triggers
Runs every morning against the prior day’s postings. Backfills 30-90 days on setup so your team starts with a pipeline, not an empty queue.