What GovBidAlerts is
GovBidAlerts is a search and alerting tool for government contracting. It aggregates open solicitations — bids, RFPs, RFQs, and ITBs — from 2,000+ public procurement sources into a single searchable directory, and uses AI to score each opportunity against a business’s products and services. The core content is free to search; an account adds personalized fit scoring, pipeline tracking, and email alerts.
Our mission
Public-sector selling is fragmented by design: federal work lives on SAM.gov, and state and local work is scattered across thousands of separate portals, each with its own login and format. Small and mid-sized businesses can’t realistically monitor them all. Our goal is to make that market legible — one place to find every relevant opportunity, and a way to focus only on the contracts that fit.
Where the data comes from
Every listing comes from public, official sources. We ingest from:
- U.S. federal— SAM.gov (Contract Opportunities), Grants.gov, and the DLA’s DIBBS, plus federal award history.
- U.S. state & local— all 50 states, thousands of cities, counties, school districts, transit and water authorities, universities, and hospitals, via the procurement platforms they run on (Bonfire, PlanetBids, BidNet Direct, OpenGov, CivicPlus, Ionwave, Periscope/BuySpeed, and more).
- International— the EU (TED), the UK (Find a Tender & Contracts Finder), Canada (CanadaBuys, Québec’s SEAO), Australia (AusTender), multilateral development banks and UN agencies, and national open-contracting (OCDS) portals across 30+ countries.
We ingest every field each source publishes and normalize it into a common format. We do not scrape login-gated or terms-restricted platforms — only sources that are public by design.
How the AI scoring works
When you add your products or services (or point us at your website, which we read to draft them), each is turned into a vector embedding. New opportunities are matched by semantic similarity, and the strongest candidates are read by a language model that scores them 0–100 against what you actually sell — taking into account the scope, the requirements, and the solicitation documents, not just keywords. You’re alerted only when a new strong match is published.
How often it updates
Sources are re-ingested on a daily schedule, and closed or past-deadline opportunities are removed from the open listings. The market statistics on our data page are recomputed daily from the same underlying records.
Independence & accuracy
GovBidAlerts is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government agency. All opportunity and award data originates from the public sources above; the authoritative version of any solicitation is always the one on the issuing agency’s own portal, which every listing links to. We work to keep the data accurate and current, but bidders should always confirm scope, requirements, and deadlines with the source before responding.
Learn more
New to government contracting? Start with what SAM.gov is, browse open contracts by product or service, or see the market statistics.