Shape the requirement before it's on your competitor's radar.
Recompetes, forecasts, incumbent intelligence, and buying signals.
Every surface it covers
Each of these is a page of its own, with the detail for that market.
Federal Recompetes
Track expiring contracts before they hit the market again and plan capture earlier.
AI Procurement Forecasts
See agency buying plans and pre-RFP timing so your team can position earlier.
Market Watch
Track market activity, buyers, competitors, and expiring demand in real time.
Small Business Specialists
Identify specialists and set-aside-aware contacts who shape small business buying paths.
Why this is hard
By the time a solicitation is published, the requirement is usually already written, often with an incumbent's help. The work that decides the award happened months earlier, against data that is public but scattered.
The specification is already written
A published RFP is the end of a conversation, not the start of one. Teams that first see work on SAM.gov are responding to someone else's requirement with three weeks on the clock.
The timing is never announced
Agencies do not publish when a contract will be re-competed. It has to be inferred from the award data: period of performance, option years, and how that office has behaved on the last few hundred awards.
The signals are public but unreadable
Forecasts, expiring contracts, incumbency and spend history are all public, and all in different places and formats. Assembling them into "is this winnable" is days of work per opportunity.
What Influence does
Incumbent depth
- Full profiles, offer counts, competition and turnover rates.
Verified timing
- Analyst-verified re-solicitation windows, not guesses.
Buying signals
- Agency forecasts and spend patterns, tracked continuously.
What you get out of it
A scored recompete, not a row in a spreadsheet
- Each predicted recompete carries an overall score with its two components broken out: contract readiness (timing, award type, extent competed, number of offers) and the agency's buying pattern.
The agency's actual behaviour
- Five years of awards for that sub-agency, PSC and NAICS combination: repeat-buying rate, competition rate, vendor turnover and whether contract duration matches the historical pattern.
The incumbent, named
- Company, UEI, location, business size and line of business, plus the incumbent award itself, so you can read what they were actually bought to do.
Who signs it
- The contracting officers at the awarding office, with their emails, so the pre-RFP conversation has somewhere to start.
A written read on whether to bid
- Where the score came from, what is in your favour, what the risks are, and what to do next, in sentences, against the fields it was derived from.
Know who holds it, two years early
A recompete is not won against a requirement. It is won against whoever has been performing it for five years.
Built from published award data
The awardee, its size and set-aside status at award, the option years exercised, and every other contract it holds with the same agency. No relationship required to learn any of it.
Drawn as a comparison, not a profile
Who they are matters less than where you lose. The gaps you cannot close in a year are the ones that decide whether to bid at all.
Their advantages have expiry dates
Size status changes, set-asides move, and programme staff rotate. Watching a contract for two years shows you which advantages are structural and which are temporary.
The clock, drawn to scale
Capture on a serious recompete takes a year. The response window takes thirty days.
Expiry computed, not announced
Period of performance and option years are published on the award. samsearch derives the end date from them rather than waiting for a notice that arrives too late to act on.
The capture window is the shaded part
It opens eighteen months to two years out, when market research happens and set-aside decisions are made. That is the last point at which anything can be influenced.
Not every expiry is an opportunity
Some requirements end, some are absorbed into a vehicle, some are extended. Each record carries an assessment rather than presenting every expiry as a bid.
And what has not been solicited yet
Agencies publish what they intend to buy. It lands in dozens of incompatible spreadsheets, which is why almost nobody reads it.
Normalised into one searchable set
Estimated value bands, expected award quarters, NAICS and PSC, and the set-aside the agency currently intends. Searchable in plain English alongside every other source.
Changes between publications are the signal
A requirement that has moved right three years running is telling you something the current entry does not. Movement is surfaced rather than silently overwritten.
Frequently asked questions
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What is a federal recompete?
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Are government procurement forecasts reliable?
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