Hear about it when it changes, not when you remember to look
A watchlist of codes, buyers, keywords and vendors, and a plain-text digest on your schedule. Nothing is sent when nothing changed.
What you can watch
| Watch | What triggers an alert |
|---|---|
| NAICS code | New or updated notices in the code; contracts in the code entering the 12-month recompete window |
| PSC code (or prefix) | New or updated notices with that product or service code |
| Keyword | Notices with the word in the title or text |
| Buyer | Notices from an office or sub-agency; their contracts entering the window |
| State | Notices with that place of performance |
| Vendor | Their contracts entering the recompete window |
| Single notice | A reminder three days before the response deadline, and the moment the deadline moves |
| Anything in your pipeline | The same deadline reminder and amendment alert, with no watch needed: tracking a pursuit is enough |
| Your company | No watch needed once you claim it: 90 days before your SAM.gov registration or a certificate on your checklist runs out, and when one of your own contracts enters its last 12 months |
Your own company, watched too
We watch your own company too: 90 days before your SAM.gov registration or a certificate runs out, and when one of your contracts enters its last year. Each arrives in the same digest as everything else, once, with how long it takes to put back. Claim your company on its vendor page, or on Your own company, and it starts.
What is open on each watch
The watchlist is a screen to read, not only a list to set up. It opens with how many open notices match what you watch, how many close within seven days and how many were posted in the last seven. A notice that matches several of your watches is counted once.
Each watch then says the same about itself: how many notices are open on it, how many close this week and how many are new. A watched notice says when it is due. A watched company says how many of its contracts end within twelve months. A watch with nothing open says so, and you can show only those to see which have gone quiet.
A response deadline that moved
An amendment that pulls a due date forward by a week is how a company goes non-responsive on work it was going to win. Nothing in this market catches it, for a dull reason: the record gets overwritten with the new date and the old one is gone, so there is no before to compare a now against.
The previous deadline is kept here. When one moves you are told, at the top of the mail above everything else, with the direction stated, because a date that moved later is a gift and a date that moved earlier is an emergency and the word "amended" covers both.
- Above the new work in the digest, because new work can wait until after lunch
- Says how far it moved and which way, not just that something changed
- A second amendment on the same notice sends again, since it is usually the one that matters
- The compliance matrix on that notice is cleared at the same moment, because one built from the superseded package is worse than none
the record is overwritten with the new date, so the old one has to be kept or there is no before to compare a now against
The digest
Plain text, grouped: anything you are working on that has changed, then deadlines in the next three days, then new or updated notices, then contracts entering the recompete window. Each item links straight to its page in the app. Frequency follows your plan: a daily digest on Shop, hourly on Pro, Capture and Enterprise. Deadline reminders come with every paid plan. You can pick a slower frequency, pause everything, or stop with one click from any email. On Capture and Enterprise the same digest can also be posted to a webhook address of your own, so it lands in a channel your team already reads.
The weekly mail opens with This week: a ranked list of at most seven things to do in the next seven days. It is the list the Today screen shows, written up on Pipeline and calendar.
The inbox
Every item a digest carries is also kept in the app. The bell at the top of every screen shows how many you have not opened, and opens the inbox.
The inbox opens with how many alerts are unread and when the newest came. Each alert is marked with its kind: Changed, Deadline, New notice, Recompete, Your contract, Running out, CMMC (a date on your CMMC self-assessment falls due), Rule, Agreement (the other side opened, signed or answered an agreement you shared), Comment (somebody mentioned you on an agreement, or the other side commented) or Supplier (a supplier's SAM.gov registration runs out within 30 days, or an exclusion begins). Filter by kind or show unread only, and the choice is remembered. Opening an alert takes you to the record it is about and marks it read. You can also mark one read or unread from the list, or mark them all read.
Alerts are kept for six months. The inbox is your own, like your watchlist: two people on an account watch different things and are told different things. It comes with every paid plan.
Where it stops
Alerts follow the data: a notice appears in your digest after SAM.gov publishes it and our next check picks it up. We check for new notices every hour. Watch limits depend on your plan.
Where it is in the app
Watchlist and alerts, under Administration in the menu. Administration, one of the eight parts of LastAwarded, is where you run the company.
Related
- Building a watchlist that worksWhat to watch and what not to.
- PricingWatch limits and alert frequency by plan.
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