The part of the record that arrives before the work does
An award says what was bought. A budget line says what somebody wants to buy. A rule says what the buying is about to require, and it says so first. All of it is published on three government sites, and not one of them knows what a NAICS code is. This joins them to the awards so a rule arrives as a market you already work in rather than as a document you were never going to read.
by the time the notice appears the requirement is written and the budget exists
Rules, dockets and bills arriving now
The part of the record that is published before the money moves. Read every day from the Federal Register, Regulations.gov and Congress.gov, and tagged to the NAICS and PSC codes each document touches.
29,773 code tags across 271 NAICS and PSC codes: 226 quoted in the document, 29,547 matched on a phrase, 0 suggested by AI and marked as such.
A proposed rule runs a year or more ahead of the solicitation
The order is always the same. Somebody decides the government should buy differently. A rule is proposed, and the public is invited to say why it will or will not work. Comments are answered, the rule is finalised, an effective date is set. Then the clauses change, then the solicitations change, then the notice lands in your feed with a requirement in it that was decided eighteen months ago by people you never spoke to.
By the time a supplier sees the notice, every decision in it is closed. The rule is where they were open.
- Proposed rules, with the deadline to say something
- Final rules, with the date they take effect
- Bills, with how far each one actually got
- And the codes each one touches, so you only read yours
Thirty days a year where a supplier has leverage
An agency has to respond to substantive comments on a proposed rule before it can finalise it. Not agree with them. Respond to them, in writing, in public. A short, specific comment from a company that actually does the work is worth more than a trade association letter, and the whole thing takes half an hour.
The window is usually thirty to sixty days and it is the only point in the process with a door in it. So the default screen here is sorted by that deadline, soonest first, rather than by the publication date. A rule you can still argue with is a different object from a rule you can only comply with.
Deadlines get extended and the original notice is not reissued when they are, so the docket is checked rather than the announcement. Nothing here is legal advice.
next buy expected Dec 14, window Nov 28 to Jan 9
Three sites, and what each one is actually for
| Source | What it carries | What it is worth to a supplier |
|---|---|---|
| The Federal Register federalregister.gov | Every proposed rule, final rule and notice the government publishes, with what it amends, the clauses it names, the effective date and the comment deadline. | The spine of the whole screen. The comment deadline comes from here. |
| Regulations.gov regulations.gov | The docket a rule sits in, the authoritative open-or-closed status, and the documents that never got a Federal Register notice at all. | A deadline can be extended and the announcement is not reissued when it is. This is what turns "closes in nine days" from a guess into an answer. |
| Congress.gov congress.gov | Bills, how far each one got, who sponsored it, what the Congressional Research Service says it does, and whether it became law. | The budget exhibits say what the Department is asking for. A bill says what Congress is willing to give, and the gap between the two is where a programme survives or quietly stops. |
Tagged to your codes, and honest about how
A rule is a document about a subject. A supplier works in a code. Nothing in the government connects the two, which is why every other tool in this market either ignores rules entirely or hands you a search box over close to thirty thousand documents a year.
Every rule and every bill here is tagged to the NAICS and PSC codes it touches, and every tag says which of three layers made it. A code quoted in the document is a fact. A code reached by matching a phrase is an inference. A code an AI suggested is a guess worth checking. A screen that renders those three identically is quietly lying about the two weaker ones, so this one does not: the layer is on the tag, in words, every time.
- Explicit codes are validated against the real NAICS table, so an invented one is dropped rather than shown
- Phrase matching works on the official code titles, not on our paraphrase of them
- AI is the last layer and never the only one: with it switched off the screen still works
- Filter to rules that change how they buy, and the rest falls away
who already passes work down in your code from subaward reporting, filed by the prime
The market a rule touches, in money
Knowing a rule is tagged to your code is not the same as knowing whether to care. So every rule page shows what actually went out under those codes in the last twelve months, how many awards that was, who holds the work and which offices buy it.
Twelve months, because a rule takes effect forward and last year is the closest thing there is to what it will govern. That number is what decides whether a rule is worth thirty minutes of somebody's day, and it is the number no regulatory tracker has ever been able to put on the page, because a regulatory tracker does not have the awards.
The open solicitations that cite a clause under revision
This is the one with no equivalent anywhere. When a rule changes the text of a FAR or DFARS clause, the product looks for open notices that cite that clause and lists them on the rule. Those are in front of somebody right now, quoting language that is being rewritten. It is a question for the contracting officer this week rather than a surprise at award, and it exists only because the rules and the notices are in the same database.
Most of them name post offices
A Congress introduces roughly twenty thousand bills and resolutions and a few hundred touch federal buying. Loading the detail on all of them would be sixty thousand reads for a list that is mostly congratulations to sports teams.
So the list carries everything and the detail only ever fills in behind appropriations, the annual defense authorization, procurement and small business bills, newest first, plus anything that actually became law. What you see is a short list of bills that matter, each with the stage it reached, the fiscal year it funds and, where the Department asked for the money, the budget lines underneath it.
- Appropriations and continuing resolutions
- The annual defense authorization
- Procurement and small business bills
- And anything that became law, whatever it was about
Every figure here can be checked against the record
Rules come from the Federal Register, the comment windows and dockets from Regulations.gov, and the bills, appropriations and defense authorization from Congress.gov. Each document keeps its own identifier, so any figure on this page opens as the document it came from. Where a code was matched on a phrase rather than quoted in the text, the tag says so.
Where it is in the app
Regulations, under Intelligence in the menu. Intelligence is the part of LastAwarded that finds the market, one of the eight parts.
Related
- Defense budgetWhat the Department is asking for, line by line.
- Shred the solicitation NewWhere a changed clause turns up in front of you.
- How to comment on a proposed ruleHalf an hour, and what to actually write.
- How a rule is tagged to a codeThe three layers, and why the screen names them.
- OpportunitiesThe notices the rules eventually produce.
See who was last awarded in your NAICS
Every code, every buying office, every vendor and every recompete, organized from the federal record and read nightly. Open it with a plan.