The company you know least about is your own
This product can tell you what a competitor holds, what runs out when, what they are allowed to charge and whether they are barred from federal work. Every one of those facts is on the record about you too, and nobody had ever put them on a screen and pointed it at the supplier reading it.
the print, the part, and who bought it last
Losing your own recompete is the most predictable thing that happens to a small supplier
Ask a company with four federal contracts when each of them ends and you will usually get three right and one blank. The blank is the one that hurts, because a contract you already hold is the work you are most likely to win and the work you are least likely to be watching. It is running, it is fine, and the end date was agreed years ago.
Nothing about that date is a surprise and nothing about it is a prediction. It was published the day the contract was signed, it sits in the same award record this product reads every night to build the recompete radar for everybody else, and the only reason a supplier is ever caught by it is that nobody was pointing the radar at them.
Pointed at your own company it becomes a list: your contracts, soonest first, with the months left on each, whether an option period remains, and how many separate times that buyer has bought the same thing before. The last one is what decides whether it is worth two years of positioning or none, and it is the one nobody counts.
- Your own contracts inside their recompete window, soonest first
- Base and option periods read separately, because an option year is the government to exercise and not yours to count on
- How often the same buyer has bought the same thing, so you know whether it comes back at all
- A period that has already ended with no follow-on published, flagged as a question rather than a conclusion
- The same twelve-month window the radar uses for everybody else, so there is no second standard for you
the end date was published the day the contract was signed, and the window opens a year before it
Barred, lapsed, or running out
Three facts about a supplier can stop a pursuit before anything else about it matters, and all three are on file. Whether the company appears on the federal exclusions list, which bars it from receiving federal contracts. Whether something on your readiness checklist has run out, or runs out inside the lead time it takes to put back. Whether a vehicle you hold is ending, taking every order that could have come through it with it.
They are ordered that way on the screen, and the short version appears on the dashboard when there is something to say. When there is nothing to say it is silent, because a permanent reassurance is a thing people stop reading, and then it says something and they still do not read it.
- The exclusions record, matched on the vendor, the identifier and the name rather than on one join
- Your checklist answers with a date on them, sorted by how little time is left
- The lead time beside each one, because something that takes six months to renew has to be started six months out
- Vehicles you hold and when they end
checked before a teaming partner is ever suggested
Matched from your name, and correctable in one click
The federal record does not know your company by the name on your invoices. It knows a registration, an identifier and whatever was typed on the award, which after a rename or an acquisition is frequently three different things. So the match here is made from the company name on your account and presented as what it is: a guess, with a way to correct it.
Nothing here writes to the record. A supplier typing their own name cannot create a vendor, rename one or merge two, because a product whose members can edit the reference data does not have reference data. If the match is wrong you search for the right row and say so, and if nothing matches it says that too, which is the normal answer for a company that has only ever been a subcontractor.
- Your identifier, your registration and where the record places you
- The other names you have been paid under, read from the awards themselves
- A search to correct the match, and a way to let go of it
- Read-only against the vendor record, always
who already passes work down in your code from subaward reporting, filed by the prime
Who actually buys from you
Small suppliers routinely name the wrong office when asked who their customer is, and it is not carelessness. The office you talk to and the office that signs are often not the same one, the name on the award is an organisational label rather than a person, and nobody keeps a running total by buyer because doing it by hand is a day of work.
Counted by money rather than by how often you speak to them, with the last award date against each, it is usually the first thing on this screen a supplier disagrees with and the first thing they check.
- Your buying offices by total paid, not by contract count
- When each of them last bought from you
- Your published schedule rates, where you hold a schedule, which a competitor can read about you anyway
printed on every notice, never searchable until now
What this is not
It is not a compliance determination and it is not a registration status check. The exclusions record can lag a resolution, an award record lags an award, and a contract whose period has ended may have been extended without anything new being published. Everything here is read from published federal records and is worth exactly what those records are worth, which is a great deal and not everything.
Where it is in the app
Your company, under Company in the menu. Company is the part of LastAwarded that knows whether you are ready, one of the eight parts.
Related
- Recompete radarThe same window, pointed at everybody else.
- What you can performThe checklist whose expiry dates show up here.
- Vehicles and IDIQsWhat you hold, and what it takes to get onto the next one.
- ExclusionsThe record itself, and what being on it means.
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.