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Three steps for each kind of reader. Every link opens a real page with an example filled in; change the filters to your own.
Contractors
Find federal work you can win, size it and bid on it.
Find work in your line
Open solicitations, contracts coming up for re-bid and agencies' planned buys, filtered by industry, agency, set-aside and place.
Read the brief before you bid
Every notice has a Brief: the contract it likely follows, the incumbent, who else wins this work, the office's single-bid rate and what similar work sold for. See what awards in your industry typically run.
Recently awarded, each with a Brief → · Typical award sizes: 541512 →
Track it to submission
The pursuit desk keeps the bid/no-bid call, a ready-to-submit checklist and every deadline; alerts tell you when new notices match.
Journalists and researchers
Ask, find out why it changed, and cite it.
Ask in plain English
Each answer comes with the number, a chart, the rows behind it and the official source.
Find out why it changed
One page on a change: what drove it (agencies, companies, places, kinds of award), the largest awards behind it and related notices. From the records, no AI.
Check it and cite it
“Share & cite” under every answer gives a citation, a chart image and an embed. The numbers are checked against USAspending.gov every day.
Investors
A listed company's government business: how big, what's ending, what's new.
Size a company's federal business
Contracts by agency and year, its subsidiaries, subcontractors (and, for listed companies, the share of revenue from federal money).
Lockheed Martin (LMT) → · Listed companies most dependent on federal money →
See what's ending
Contracts coming up for re-bid, with their value and end date: revenue that has to be won again.
Watch new wins
Award notices as agencies post them, with the amount and the offers it drew.
Residents
Where federal and state money goes where you live.
Your state or county
Federal money by place, per resident, compared with other states.
What your members of Congress secured
Earmarks (Community Project Funding) by state, member and agency.
Your state's own checkbook
Payments by state agencies to vendors, from the state's own records.
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