The company
Exquadrum
Exquadrum is an aerospace and defense contractor certified to AS9100 Rev D and ITAR, and a Hire Vets Gold Medallion recipient. Its buyer list is the hard end of the market: DARPA, the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy, AFRL, plus Virgin Galactic on the commercial side.
Before SamSearch
Niche DoD work does not show up in a generic keyword feed
When your next RFP is a highly specific DARPA, Navy, or MDA solicitation, a broad SAM.gov scrape is useless. The notice that matters is easy to miss, and the requirement that decides fit is often in an attachment. A specialized aerospace shop cannot afford discovery that returns everything except the one contract written for it.
How they use SamSearch
The capture workflow
Exquadrum runs federal opportunity discovery in SamSearch to keep a decade-long award record fed with the next pursuit. Across 856 recommendation runs, the engine screened 25,489 candidate solicitations and shortlisted 6,969. Capture spends time on fit, not on scanning every notice that lands on SAM.gov.
By the numbers
Exquadrum in SamSearch
Solicitations screened
25,489
Read by the recommendation engine
Worth a human look
6,969
Surfaced as relevant
Cut before review
73%
Removed as poor fit
Hours returned (est.)
1,235
Analyst time, platform estimate
From the market to the shortlist
How many solicitations the engine read for Exquadrum, how many it removed, and how many made it to capture review.
25,489
Screened
100%
18,520
Cut
73% removed
6,969
Shortlisted
27%
Screening volume by week
Weekly solicitations screened versus the smaller set returned as relevant. From live recommendation activity.
Hours returned uses a platform estimate of 4 minutes per solicitation filtered out. Not a stopwatch measurement for this account.
Capabilities in play
What they run in the platform
Old way vs. SamSearch
What changed in the pursuit process
| Before | With SamSearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Opportunity screening | Manual tracking across SAM.gov and program-specific portals for niche DoD work. | 856 recommendation runs continuously screening 25,489 candidate solicitations. |
| Signal vs. noise | Miss one highly specific notice and the pursuit never starts. | 6,969 shortlisted as relevant for a specialized aerospace profile. |
FAQ
What does Exquadrum use SamSearch for?
Exquadrum runs federal opportunity discovery in SamSearch to keep a decade-long award record fed with the next pursuit. Across 856 recommendation runs, the engine screened 25,489 candidate solicitations and shortlisted 6,969. Capture spends time on fit, not on scanning every notice that lands on SAM.gov.
What results are documented here?
$37,513,596 in federal awards across 28 contracts, 2016–2025; $13.1M single DoD award included in that record; 10 years of continuous federal wins, still active through 2025.
How were the results verified?
Platform activity comes from SamSearch production data. Federal award values come from public USASpending.gov records matched to the contractor's UEI.