A supplier loses work for three reasons that have nothing to do with price
The buy is bundled too large to deliver alone. The set-aside is one you do not hold. The scope crosses a code you do not work in. All three have the same answer, a partner, and the federal record already says who the candidates are.
who already passes work down in your code from subaward reporting, filed by the prime
Four reasons, each read from the record
Every name on the list carries the reason it is there and the record that put it there. A partner list with no reason attached is a directory, and the directory is somewhere else on this site.
Primes who subcontract in your codes
Read from the reported subaward record, not the award record. That inversion is the whole trick: a company winning large awards in your code is your competition, and a company reporting subawards in it is a customer. The two look identical from the award table alone, which is how teaming lists end up sending people to call their own competitors.
Firms who sell beside you
Joined on the buying office and filtered to exclude your codes. A firm winning the same code at the same office is the competition; a firm winning a different code at the same office has the past performance and the relationship you would be borrowing, and no reason to say no.
Certifications you may not hold
Registered in your codes and holding an 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB or SDVOSB certification, so they can bid set-asides you cannot. Read from the SAM.gov registration rather than from awards: here the registration is the whole signal.
A vehicle you are not on
A company that holds a vehicle you are not on. Orders under a vehicle go only to the companies on it, so a holder is how a company that is not on it reaches that work.
Ranked by how many reasons apply to you
A candidate is ranked by how many of the four reasons apply to you: it pays subcontractors in your code, it wins at your offices, it holds a vehicle you are not on, it holds a certification you do not. A company with three of them sits above a company with one.
Your own company is left out of the list. So is every excluded company.
The codes come from your watchlist, so the screen is useful the moment you open it rather than after you have typed them in again.
- Pays subcontractors in your code
- Wins at your offices
- Holds a vehicle you are not on
- Holds a certification you do not
- Nobody on the list has agreed to anything, so the calling is still yours
UEI, CAGE, then normalized name
The shortlist
Your account keeps a shortlist of the candidates you choose. Each one on it shows where it stands.
What it does not do
It does not score a relationship, predict whether anybody will answer, or rank by anything that is not on the record. It hands over names with evidence attached. The calling is your job, and no part of this product will ever do it for you.
Where it is in the app
Teaming, under Capture in the menu. Capture is the part of LastAwarded that decides what to pursue and wins it, one of the eight parts.
Related
- SubawardsThe record most of this is built from.
- SAM registrantsEvery registered firm, by code and state.
- ExclusionsCheck a partner before you put them on a bid.
- Vehicles and IDIQsThe vehicles a candidate holds and you do not.
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.