Frequently asked questions

A deal intelligence tool for small defense and aerospace suppliers. For any part category it shows who buys it, who won it last time, what it went for, and what is coming up for recompete. It reads the public federal sources, cleans them, and joins them so a shop can read its market without doing the digging by hand.

Machine shops, fabricators, coaters, heat treaters, harness and circuit board shops, and other specialty suppliers that sell, or want to sell, to federal buyers and to the primes that serve them. It is built for a shop where the owner or one estimator does the quoting.

• Open notices that match the category.
• 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 public 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 helps you decide what to pursue and when. Quoting, proposals, and submissions stay with you and the buyer's own systems.

One person, on Florida's Space Coast. Questions go to the person who wrote the code, through the contact page.

Enterprise capture platforms are built for capture teams at large companies, priced accordingly, and cover the whole federal market. LastAwarded is built for a shop with a small quoting budget, focused on parts and the buyers that purchase them, and priced for a small business. It uses the same public data anyone can read; the difference is the cleaning, the joining, and the focus.

Four public sources: the SAM.gov contract opportunities API, USASpending, the FPDS award feed, and SAM.gov entity registrations. Every page that draws on them lists its sources at the bottom. See the data page for detail.

No. Nothing in LastAwarded comes from any employer, any prime contractor's internal systems, or any private or purchased list. If you can find it in the app, you could find it yourself in the public sources with enough time.

It can lag the real world by days to weeks. Contracting offices report actions to FPDS 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.

On a schedule the founder controls, not on a fixed promise. The data page describes each source and how it is read.

Because the same shop appears in the public 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.

DIBBS solicitations are not one of the four sources 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 FPDS and published on USASpending like any other award.

No. The free report is public and covers any code, so you can see what the data looks like for your own category before you pay. The app itself opens only on an active plan.

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

No. Create an account on the start page, check out, and the app opens. Cancel any time and keep access to the end of the period you paid for.

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.

Exports are CSV files, so they open in any spreadsheet. API access is included in the Capture and Enterprise plans. See exports and API for what each plan can pull.

No. LastAwarded does not store your quotes, proposals, drawings, or any bid documents. Keep those in your own systems.

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

No. Everything in the app comes from the four public sources listed above. There is no insider knowledge, no leaked pricing, and no private list.

The app holds public notice text and public award records, which anyone can read without a login. Export-controlled drawings and technical data live behind the agencies' own access controls, such as DIBBS and the Joint Certification Program, not in LastAwarded.

No. A brief is a labeled AI-written summary of public 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. You choose what to watch, and the alerts follow from that. See alerts for how they work.

No. Registration is free 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.