Automatic, on a schedule, from twenty-seven federal feeds
Every source is read on its own schedule, all day, every day. Nothing is typed in by hand, nothing is scraped from screens, and AI never touches the pull: it reads the records after they are in.
What happens every day
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All day: the record moves
Every source is read on its own schedule, all day. We check SAM.gov for new notices every hour. A source that is slow or briefly unreachable holds up nothing else, and a read that does not land is tried again rather than lost.
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Once a day: the whole record is brought forward
New awards, the last three days of notices again, new assistance, the newest defense budget request, the newest rules and their dockets, and the bills that moved. Then the joining work: one company resolved across every system, recompetes scored, rules and bills tagged to the codes they touch, and the alerts.
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In the background: the whole history
History is filled in newest year first, across every sector, so the years you are most likely to need are complete before the older ones arrive. A short bar on an old year means that year is still coming.
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After the pull: AI, only on request
AI writes the plain-English brief of a notice when a member asks, turns a typed question into a search, tags notices by work type, and writes the short summary on a code page. Every number it describes comes from the record, never from the model.
The twenty-seven feeds, what each gives and how often
| Source | What it provides | Freshness |
|---|---|---|
| SAM.gov opportunities API | Every contract notice: solicitations, combined synopses, sources sought, presolicitations, special notices, justifications, award notices. Attachments and points of contact as published. | Every hour, and the last three days are read again once a day so a late one is not missed. A notice leaves the open list two days after its deadline. |
| USASpending contracts | Every contract award at every agency: vendor, buyer, NAICS, PSC, value, dates, place of performance. Award detail adds competition, offers, options, the contracting office. | Nightly. USASpending publishes with a lag of days to a few weeks. |
| SAM.gov contract awards | The newest contract actions before USASpending publishes them, with the office, set-aside and competition fields. The reporting system SAM.gov took over for contract awards; these are the same records USASpending republishes, arriving sooner. | Daily, three days back. |
| SAM.gov subcontract reports | Subcontract reports as the primes file them: who was hired under which prime contract, for how much, and under which contract vehicle the prime sits. | Daily. |
| DoD Comptroller budget exhibits | The defense budget request line by line: procurement (P-1), research and development (R-1) and operation and maintenance (O-1), with the money for each year the request states. | The newest request nightly; older years once. |
| USASpending assistance | Grants and cooperative agreements: recipient, program (assistance listing), agency, value, dates, recipient state. | Nightly. |
| SAM.gov entity API | Active registrations: business name, UEI, CAGE, address, NAICS list, small business programs. | Weekly refresh once loaded. |
| SAM.gov exclusions API | Every party debarred, suspended or otherwise ineligible for federal work, with the agency that excluded them and the dates. | Daily. |
| GSA CALC | The awarded hourly ceiling rate by named job title for every company on a GSA schedule: the only place price is published by role rather than by contract. | Nightly, as GSA refreshes it. |
| Grants.gov search | Open and forecasted grant opportunities: funding agency, assistance listing, eligibility, close date, award ceiling. | Daily. |
| Federal Register | Every proposed rule, final rule and notice: what it amends, the clauses it names, whether it is significant, the effective date, and the deadline to comment with the link to the form. | Daily; the Federal Register publishes each business morning. |
| Regulations.gov | The docket a rule sits in, the authoritative open-or-closed comment status, and documents that never got a Federal Register notice. | Daily. |
| Congress.gov | Bills: the title, the latest action, the sponsor, the subjects, the Congressional Research Service summary, and whether it became law. | Daily. |
| SAM.gov assistance listings | Each grant program as the agency describes it: what it is for, who may apply, what it obligates in a year and the law it is made under. | Read whole once. A month later, what was published or changed since. Every sixth month, whole again. |
| SAM.gov product and service codes | Each product and service code as its keeper describes it: what the code takes in, what it leaves out, the code above it and whether it is still in use. | Read whole once. A month later, what changed since. Every sixth month, whole again. |
| GSA per diem rates | What is allowed for a night of lodging and a day of meals, by place and by month, for each fiscal year GSA has published. | This fiscal year and the next, read again every month. The next year is asked for from August on. Earlier years once. |
| SEC filings | For a contractor that is listed on an exchange: its revenue, its net income and its latest annual, quarterly and current reports, from SEC EDGAR. | The list of listed companies every month. Each matched company every thirty days. |
| Decisions of the Court of Federal Claims | Bid protests and contract cases the court has decided, one row an opinion, each opening the court's own document. Read from GovInfo. | Daily for what was added or changed. The years back to 2004 are read first, then earlier years one at a time. |
| Lobbying filings of the Senate and the House | Each filing at LDA.gov: the firm, the client, the issues, the government bodies contacted and what was reported as paid or spent. | Daily, the filings posted in the last ten days. Earlier years are read one reporting period at a time. |
| SAM.gov notice archive | Every notice SAM.gov has archived, one file a fiscal year, text and all, so an award shows how it was advertised and an office's time from notice to award is measured over many years. | Read whole once. The list of files is checked every month, and a file that changed is read again. |
| SAM.gov contract awards: other transactions | Other transaction agreements, orders and IDVs, which only SAM.gov's contract award records carry. Each is marked on its award, so every award list can show them alone or leave them out. | The daily read marks each new one. The history is read a month at a time, newest first, back to FY2008. |
| SAM.gov wage determinations | The Department of Labor determinations for service and construction work: the least hourly rate and the fringe for each occupation, by county, with the full text. | Daily for what changed. The whole list every month, and a determination no longer listed is marked as no longer in force. |
| Department of War contract announcements | Every contract of $7.5 million or more, announced the business day it is made: the company, the place, the amount, the contract number and the contracting activity. | Every three hours. The feed gives only its newest days, so every day since the first read is kept. |
| SBIR.gov awards | Every SBIR and STTR award since the programs began: the company, the agency, the phase, the year and the amount. | Read whole once, and looked at again every month. |
| SBIR.gov topics | The research topics open now, with the agency asking, the program, the phase and the day each one closes. | Daily. |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wages | What each occupation is paid and how many hold it, nationally, by state and by metropolitan area, across all industries. | Looked at every month. The Bureau publishes new estimates once a year. |
| FedRAMP Marketplace | Every cloud product with a FedRAMP authorization or on the way to one: its impact level, the company behind it, the agencies using it and each change of status. | Daily. Nothing is stored when neither file has changed. |
Twenty-seven feeds, sixteen systems. Every one of them is an official federal record, and every figure on this site links back to the one it came from.
Read with the feeds above
Three more parts of the record come with the feeds rather than as feeds of their own. Subawards under grants are read from USASpending with the assistance awards: the past a month at a time, then the last thirty days daily. Sole-source justifications are the justification notices among the SAM.gov notices, read with them, every hour. And the text of the FAR and the DFARS, with the size standards that say whether a company is small in a code, is read from the eCFR. Every source is in one list, with what each gives, how often it is read and how far back it reaches, on Data and sources.
What else is on file
Each of these is read from its source and tied to the companies, the agencies and the programs already on record. A source is listed here once it is on file.
What SAM.gov is, and what this site covers of it
SAM.gov is several systems under one roof. Here is how each maps to this site.
- Contract Opportunities: covered in full. Every notice, every type, every code, every agency. See open notices.
- Entity Information: registrations are covered (the SAM registrant directory, and the identity of every vendor on the award record). Exclusions (debarments) are covered too: the exclusion list is read daily and matched onto the vendor record, so an excluded party is marked wherever it appears.
- Federal Hierarchy: covered by the agency pages and the buying office directory, built from the awards rather than from the hierarchy file, so an office appears once it has awarded something.
- Federal Assistance: covered as awarded assistance on the grants page, from USASpending. Open and forecasted funding opportunities come from Grants.gov and are covered on the grant opportunities screen, each one opening onto what has already been paid under the same assistance listing.
- Contract Data (the central contract action record): covered through both the SAM.gov contract-award API and USASpending, which carry the same records. Other transactions are the exception: only SAM.gov's contract award records carry them, and they are read from there and marked on their awards. See other transactions.
- Contract Opportunities archive: covered. SAM.gov's yearly files of archived notices are read, so a notice that closed years ago can still be found.
- Wage Determinations: covered. The Department of Labor determinations for service and construction work are read from SAM.gov, with each occupation's least rate and fringe by county. See wage determinations. The awarded ceiling rates in labor rates come from GSA CALC, which answers a different question: what the government has agreed to pay, not the least it may.
- FASCSA orders: out of scope. A short list of supply-chain exclusion orders that matter when you are the buyer. SAM.gov FASCSA.
- Entity Reporting (subaward and executive compensation reporting): the subcontract reports primes file there are covered. They are read daily from SAM.gov, and again as USASpending republishes them, and both are on the subawards screen. Executive compensation reporting is not read.
What is not automatic
Three things need a person. Entity merges above a confidence threshold are proposed by the engine and confirmed by hand. What counts as a meaningful award, and how far back the record runs, are decisions made once and applied to everything after. And the written guides on this site are written, not generated.
Everything else, from the oldest fiscal year on record to the morning digest, is read and joined the same way every day. The status page and the Data status view in the app show when each source last came in.
The boundary
Nothing enters the record from any employer, any private contact list or any conversation. The pull reads official federal sources and is designed so that it cannot read anything else.
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