Regulation & Policy
FAC 2026-01 resets the current FAR baseline for acquisition research
The March 13, 2026 effective baseline makes edition and clause-date control a practical requirement for capture, proposal, pricing, and post-award teams.
Coverage desk
Notice Watch
Source-backed reporting and analysis connected to the companies, capabilities, authorities, and operating domains it affects.
Opportunity Desk
A third-party alert must resolve to the SAM.gov notice and every amendment
Opportunity feeds save time, but the official notice, attachments, amendments, dates, and agency instructions remain the controlling research record.
Award Intelligence
USAspending award records are historical evidence—not a private pipeline
The federal spending database supports recipient, agency, account, place, and award analysis, but it does not expose unpublished acquisition intent or contractor capture work.
Award Intelligence
Federal award research now requires an explicit FPDS, SAM.gov, and USAspending reconciliation method
The same contract can appear through different interfaces, action structures, update cycles, and analytic definitions.
Vehicle Desk
A GSA eLibrary listing does not answer task-order scope by itself
Contract number, category, SIN, holder, and basic status are starting points; the current contract, solicitation, modifications, ordering rules, and proposed team still matter.
Small Business
SBA size research begins with the solicitation's NAICS code and current entity facts
Historical labels and profile filters are useful for discovery, but size can depend on the procurement, threshold, receipts or employees, affiliates, and timing.
Small Business
DSBS is a market-research profile—not a responsibility or capability determination
Agencies and primes can discover small businesses through the database, but profile data needs direct verification against the requirement and current official records.
Teaming Desk
SBA SubNet separates prime-led subcontracting leads from government solicitations
The posting party, selection process, workshare, flowdowns, data access, proposal channel, and post-award relationship differ from a direct federal competition.
Product Intelligence
GovWin IQ connects planned opportunities with agency, contract, and company research
The product's value proposition spans pre-solicitation intelligence and public records, a useful combination only when users preserve source class and confidence.
Product Intelligence
FedScout links federal market research to capture and pipeline work
The platform spans opportunity, account, contact, teaming, and pursuit workflow, making handoff and evidence controls central evaluation questions.
Product Intelligence
GovDash spans opportunity discovery, capture, and proposal response
A broad workflow can reduce handoffs, but buyers still need to test how the system preserves controlling documents, approved knowledge, human decisions, and submission authority.
Product Intelligence
ProPricer keeps cost-volume development distinct from narrative proposal management
Pricing requires rates, bases, estimates, subcontract inputs, assumptions, versions, approvals, and reconciliation that generic response workflows may not own.
Product Intelligence
Costpoint shows why post-award operations need their own market layer
Project accounting, time, billing, procurement, contracts, and compliance records continue long after opportunity and proposal systems finish their primary job.
Regulation & Policy
GAO protest records explain procurement disputes without predicting the next one
Decisions and annual statistics are valuable for understanding grounds, timeliness, corrective action, and outcomes, but each future matter turns on its forum, record, dates, and law.