Frequently asked questions

Federal capture intelligence for any company that sells to the federal government, from one person to a capture team. For any NAICS code it shows who buys the work, who holds it now, what it went for, and what comes up for recompete, and it gives you somewhere to price the bid, run the contract and keep the books that go with it. It reads the official federal sources, cleans them and joins them, so you can read your market without doing the digging by hand.

Anyone who sells, or wants to sell, to the federal government or to the primes that serve it: manufacturers and machine shops, construction firms, IT and professional services companies, distributors, nonprofits that apply for grants, and the capture and business development teams at larger suppliers. It works for a company of one, and a team of fifty can share one account.

• Open notices that match the code.
• The award history: which offices bought it, who won, and the obligated amounts from the record.
• The incumbents, with their names resolved into one record each.
• The awards nearing their end date, so you can see the recompetes coming.

See how it works for a walk-through.

Short plain-English summaries of a notice, generated from the notice text. Every brief is labeled as an AI-written summary. It is there to help you decide whether to open the solicitation, never to replace reading it. The solicitation and its attachments are always the authority.

No. It does not submit a bid, an invoice or any filing, it does not move money or run payroll, and nothing in it is legal or accounting advice. It helps you decide what to pursue, price it, and keep the records that go with the work. Submitting stays with you and the buyer's own systems.

It keeps the records a contractor's rates are worked out from, on four screens: Timesheets, People and pay, Cost ledger and Indirect rates. Hours are entered by day, submitted and approved, with every change logged. Pay runs are typed in or imported from a payroll report. The indirect rate calculator works out fringe, overhead and general and administrative for a fiscal year and keeps them as rate sets, which the bid worksheet and the contract ledger read. It does not run payroll, pay anybody, move money or file anything, and it is not accounting advice. See the books.

Yes. A new account is offered five steps for getting set up: claim your company in the federal record, confirm your codes and set-asides, pick buying offices to follow, choose how often to hear from us, and a guided tour that walks through each part of the app, screen by screen. Any step can be skipped and come back to, and the tour can be taken again from Getting started and help, under Knowledge in the menu, at any time. The App guide, in the same place, walks every page in order, from setting up to closing out a contract, and says what each one is for. If something looks wrong or you have a question, Send us a message is in the menu on every screen.

Every new paying account is also offered a 15-minute call with us in its first three weeks, to walk through its company page.

Yes. The app works on a phone, so a deadline can be checked away from the desk. Every screen fits a small screen, and its buttons are sized for a finger.

We are based on Florida's Space Coast and we work in this industry. Questions go to us through the contact page, and we read every message.

It reads the same federal systems and covers the same market: every NAICS code, every agency, every fiscal year back to FY2001. The differences are the price, which is published on the pricing page rather than quoted, the cleaning and joining of the record, and that pricing a bid, running the contract and keeping the books sit in the same place as the market data. What it does not have is an analyst who calls the program office for you. The comparison page goes row by row.

Twenty-seven federal feeds, from sixteen systems: the SAM.gov contract opportunities, entity, exclusions, contract-award and subcontract report APIs, the SAM.gov archive of closed notices, other transactions from SAM.gov's contract award records, SAM.gov assistance listings, product and service codes and wage determinations, USASpending contracts and assistance, GSA CALC labor rates, GSA per diem rates, the Grants.gov search API, the Department of Defense Comptroller budget exhibits, the Department of War's daily contract announcements, SBIR.gov awards and topics, occupational wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the FedRAMP Marketplace, the Federal Register, Regulations.gov, Congress.gov, the SEC's filings on EDGAR, decisions of the Court of Federal Claims on GovInfo and the lobbying filings of the Senate and the House at LDA.gov. Every page that draws on them lists its sources at the bottom. See the data page for detail.

Also on file: SAM.gov's assistance listings and product and service codes (about 4,200 programs and about 3,800 product and service codes), GSA's per diem rates (about 290 places, fiscal years 2021 to 2027), the SEC's filings (about 1,400 listed companies), decisions of the Court of Federal Claims (about 6,100, from 2014 to 2026), the lobbying filings of the Senate and the House (about 1.8 million, from 1999 to 2026), SBIR and STTR awards (about 218,000, from 1983 to 2026), wage determinations (about 5,400 in force), occupational wages (about 1,100 occupations, May 2025) and the FedRAMP Marketplace (about 650 products).

No. Nothing in LastAwarded comes from any employer, any prime contractor's internal systems, or any private or purchased list. Every record here traces back to a federal system, and the app links to the source on every screen so you can check it.

It can lag the real world by days to weeks. Contracting offices report actions on their own schedule, and USASpending publishes on its own schedule after that. Treat any award as a record of what was reported, not a live feed.

All day. We check SAM.gov for new notices every hour. Rules, dockets and bills are read daily, award changes nightly, and the figures on every page are rebuilt on the nightly run. The data page describes each source and how it is read.

Because the same company appears in the federal record under several names over the years. The app groups those records into one entity using UEI, DUNS, CAGE, registration history, and careful name matching, and shows the names it joined. The entity resolution methodology explains the rules.

From the period of performance dates on the award record: the current end date and the potential end date if all options are used. When the record is incomplete the app estimates, and says so. The recompete methodology page has the details.

No. You sign in and the record is there. If you want more AI readings than your plan includes, the owner of a paid account can add an AI key of your own on the Users and billing screen. Readings on that account are then written on your key, your provider bills you for them, and nothing comes off the month. The key is encrypted before it is stored and can be removed at any time. That is optional.

Because a proposed rule runs a year or more ahead of the solicitation it produces, and the comment window is the only point in the process where a supplier gets a say the agency has to answer in writing. Rules are also the fastest way to find out that a clause in a solicitation you are working on right now is being rewritten. See rules and funding and the guide on commenting on a proposed rule.

DIBBS solicitations are not one of the twenty-seven feeds today, so DLA quote requests that post only to DIBBS do not appear as open notices. DLA awards do appear, because they are reported to the central contract record and published on USASpending like any other award.

Yes. An account opens on One Code: pick one NAICS code and you get its awards, its open notices, its prices, its incumbents and its recompetes, with no card and no day it stops. What a paid plan adds is every other code, the rest of the record, and the tools that run the business.

Four: Shop, Pro, Capture and Enterprise. Current prices and what each plan includes are on the pricing page.

There is nothing on a countdown. An account opens on One Code and stays there for as long as you like; a paid plan opens every other code and the tools beside them. Cancel any time and keep access to the end of the period you paid for, after which the account drops back to One Code rather than going dark.

Yes. Annual plans are available alongside monthly billing. The pricing page shows both.

Yes. Cancel whenever you like and you keep access to the end of the period you have already paid for. Nothing renews after that.

It is described in full on the refunds page.

Yes. Your work is yours to take. The owner can download everything the account holds as one file: every list, every record and every document. It is asked for on the account screen in the app, and a seat can download its own.

Yes. The lists of the record export to Excel or CSV, with the filters and the order you set: open notices, award history, recompetes, companies, SAM registrants, subawards, grant awards, rules, bills, the forecast, price history, vehicles, labor rates, contracting people, grant opportunities, exclusions, the defense budget, sole source notices, buying offices and the directories. Your own bids, contracts, invoices, timesheets, rate sets, pipeline and calendar export to Excel and CSV too, and most of them print. API access is included in the Capture and Enterprise plans, and those plans can also post every alert digest to a webhook, so new notices land in a Slack or Teams channel or start a Zap. See exports and API for what each plan can pull.

Only the ones you upload. Paid plans include a private library for your past performance, proposals, resumes and rate sheets. Files are kept in a private area that is never served over the web, and are read back only through the app by people on your account. They are matched to the requirements of a solicitation with no AI.

AI writing in a proposal draft is optional, and it is off until the owner of the account or a manager turns it on. When it is on, pressing "Write this part from my passages" on one part sends the requirement sentences of that part, the passages of your documents shown under them, and your company name. Nothing else in the library is sent, and it can be turned off again at any time.

You can delete any document at any time. The security page has the detail.

No. It is an independent product with no affiliation to SAM.gov, GSA, DLA, NASA, or any federal agency. It reads their published records and links back to them; it does not speak for them.

No. Every record in the app that you did not put there yourself comes from an official federal source: the twenty-seven feeds listed above, and the text of the regulations from the eCFR. What you add, your bids, costs and documents, is yours and is seen only by your account. There is no insider knowledge, no leaked pricing, and no private list.

The federal record in the app is published notice text and published award records, which anyone can read. Export-controlled drawings and technical data live behind the agencies' own access controls, such as DIBBS and the Joint Certification Program, not in LastAwarded. Keep controlled technical data out of your library: it is for past performance, proposals, resumes and rate sheets.

It writes a brief of any open notice, and a short reading of any rule, bill, company, buying office, budget line, NAICS code, contract vehicle or award. It also takes a plain question and works it across the whole record, running its own searches over the awards, notices, subawards, assistance awards, vehicles, buying offices, vendors, contracting people, justifications, budget exhibits, labor rates, exclusions, rules and bills, up to six for one question, then answers with figures counted over everything that matched. On the way in, it tags every new notice by work type, process and material so your filters work without keywords.

In every case it may use only what the record gave it. A reading of one screen is written from that screen. A question is answered from the searches it ran, and the answer lists them with what each one found, so every claim can be checked by opening one. It cannot recall a figure from training, and where the record does not settle a point it has to say so rather than fill the gap. See what the AI does.

Writing in a proposal draft is apart from all of that. It is optional and off until the account turns it on, and the next answer says what it sends.

No. We do not use anything you type, watch, save or upload to train a model. When you ask for a reading, the model is sent your question and the facts on the screen you asked about. On a federal record that is the published record. On your own pursuit, bid, contract or books it includes what you entered there. A reading is never sent a document from your library.

Two optional things send words of your own to a model, and AI writing in a proposal draft is the first: it sends passages of your documents. The draft itself is built with no AI. AI writing is off for every account until the owner of the account or a manager turns it on, on the draft screen, after reading what is sent and confirming it. They can turn it off again at any time.

When it is on, pressing "Write this part from my passages" on one part sends three things for that one press: the requirement sentences of that part, the passages of your own documents shown under them, and your company name. Nothing else in your library is sent, and nothing is sent until somebody presses that button. The file is never sent. What comes back is shown beside your text as a suggestion and is never saved over what you wrote.

The second is AI in Agreements. It is off for every account until the owner of the account or a manager turns it on, on the AI tab of an agreement, after reading what is sent and confirming it. When it is on, one press sends the text of the agreement it is about, or for a question across agreements only the passages that match it, with the question and your company name. A restricted agreement is sent only when the person asking may read it.

Your plan states how many new readings a month it includes and the app shows what is left. A reading somebody has already asked for does not come off it, because answers are cached on the record they were written from. Nothing else stops: the record, the filters, the exports and the alerts have never needed the model. If you want more readings, the owner of a paid account can add an AI key of your own on the Users and billing screen. Readings are then written on your key and nothing comes off the month. See your own AI key.

No. A brief is a labeled AI-written summary of the notice text. It can miss a clause, a quantity, or a deadline. Read the solicitation and its amendments before you quote; the brief is only there to help you decide whether to open them.

By email, and every alert is kept in the inbox inside the app as well. On the Capture and Enterprise plans a digest can also go to a webhook, so it lands in Slack or Teams. You choose what to watch, and the alerts follow from that. See alerts for how they work.

No. Registration costs you nothing and you should do it yourself. Introductions to buyers are yours to make. The app tells you who to call; the calling is your job.