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Better GovCon Decisions.
Built specifically for the realities of federal, state, and local contracting.
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"Am I ready?"
GovCon Readiness Checklist (47 Points)
Eight categories, 47 plain-English questions, and why each one matters. You finish with a readiness snapshot, your critical items, your next five moves, and a downloadable report. Free for every member.
GovCon Readiness Assessment
Free for everyone on the home page: score your readiness and get matched to the right starting courses.
SAM.gov Readiness Checker
Ten questions on legal name, EIN, address, banking, incorporation, NAICS, ownership, Entity Administrator, UEI, and CAGE, then a personalized pre-registration checklist and the seven-step federal contractor setup path.
Certification & Set-Aside Navigator
Answer questions about how your company is owned and controlled and see which programs to investigate: 8(a), WOSB, EDWOSB, HUBZone, SDVOSB, VOSB, with requirements, how certification works, and where to apply.
GSA MAS Eligibility & Readiness Assessment
An honest look at whether a GSA Schedule fits what you sell, with a scored report, SIN analysis, and a Go / No-Go recommendation.
Understand the market
"Where do I fit?"
Federal Agency Explorer
What each agency actually buys, which offices buy it, how they buy, the small business door, and an AI fit rating for your company. Free for every member.
Contract Vehicle Decoder
OASIS+, GSA MAS, SEWP, CIO-SP, 8(a) STARS, Alliant, BPAs, agency IDIQs: what each one is, who manages it, who can compete, whether you must already hold it, and where subcontracting fits. Free for every member.
Federal Classification Finder (NAICS + PSC)
Describe your business in plain English and get NAICS codes, PSC codes, SBA size standards, likely buying agencies, and keyword suggestions for spending research.
Who Buys What I Sell?
Start with yourself, not an agency. Tell us what you sell and get the federal agencies that buy it, with relevance ratings, NAICS and PSC codes, requirement types, buying offices, and live opportunity links.
Small Business Size Standard Calculator
Calculate your average annual receipts and better understand whether your company may qualify as small under SBA size standards, including affiliates, joint venture attribution, remaining headroom, and a runway forecast before you graduate.
Build relationships
"Who should I talk to?"
Federal Buyer / Small Business Office Finder
Pick an agency and get its OSDBU or Office of Small Business Programs, what that office can and cannot do, what to have ready, the questions worth asking, and a ready-to-send outreach email tied to the monthly Pro Challenge. Free for everyone.
Agency Meeting Prep Tool
Pick an agency and say why you are meeting them, then get your 15-Minute Agency Meeting Brief: what they buy that relates to you, how to frame your capabilities, three intelligent questions, a 30-second intro, what not to do, and a ready-to-send follow-up.
Awardly Recompete Radar
Learn exactly who holds the types of contracts you would like to work on. See incumbents, recompete timelines, and teaming entry points before the solicitation drops.
Relationship Tracker
Keep track of the agency contacts, primes, and teaming partners you meet, with notes, next steps, and reminders so nothing falls through the cracks.
Find & evaluate opportunities
"Should I pursue this?"
Beginner Go / No-Go Tool
Ten plain-English questions about one opportunity, then a pursuit readiness score with your strengths, concerns, biggest risk, and one recommended next step before you write anything. Free for every member.
Opportunity Translator
Upload an RFP or paste a SAM.gov opportunity and ask what it actually means. Plain-English scope, who can bid, contract type, dates, requirements, what to submit, disqualifiers, and questions to ask.
Agency Intelligence
Live, AI-enriched view of what an agency is buying right now, upcoming requirements, buying patterns, and where the budget is heading.
Incumbent & Award Research
See who holds the current contract, how much they were paid, option years exercised, and what that tells you about your odds before you decide to bid.
Pursue the work
"How do I respond?"
Capability Statement Builder
Generate an agency-ready, one-page capability statement in minutes through a guided interview, with a readiness score and polished executive rewriting. Free for every member.
Capture Planner
Turn a target opportunity into a structured capture plan: customer hot buttons, competitors, discriminators, win themes, price-to-win, and dated capture actions.
RFP Compliance Matrix Builder (AI Generated)
Upload a solicitation and get a cited requirement matrix with page numbers, the submission facts, a proposal outline, a working backward schedule, and a kickoff agenda. Free templates and the full process live in the resource center.
Proposal Compliance Checker
Upload your solicitation and draft to get a compliance matrix, Section L and M review, ranked risks, and likely evaluator questions.
Federal Past Performance Translator
Zero federal awards but years of commercial work? Enter one project and get it rewritten into federal evaluator language across scope, size, complexity, schedule, results, and relevance, without pretending it was federal experience.
GovCon Pricing & Cost Readiness
Know what it really costs you before you decide what to charge. Learn direct vs. indirect costs, fringe, overhead, G&A, profit vs. margin, timekeeping, and DCAA readiness, build a loaded labor rate with sliders, compare scenarios, and get a readiness report with a roadmap.
Help! What does this mean?
"Speak GovCon to me."
GovCon Acronym Decoder
Search hundreds of federal contracting acronyms, from CAGE and UEI to QASP and WAWF, plus every agency small business office. Free for everyone.
Federal Contract Type Decoder
Enter CPFF, FFP, T&M, CPAF, IDIQ, or BPA and see how it works, who carries the cost risk, when the government uses it, what accounting capability is expected, and a beginner difficulty rating, plus a side-by-side comparison. Free for everyone.
Solicitation Section Decoder
Paste or upload solicitation language and get it identified and translated: every requirement in plain English, how to respond, how you will be evaluated, what is easy to miss, questions worth asking, and what to do next.
FAR Clause Explainer
Paste a FAR or DFARS clause reference and get a plain-English explanation of what it requires, who it applies to, and the practical impact on your contract.
GovCon Glossary
Browse plain-English definitions of the terms you will hear in every contracting conversation, from appropriation types to wire transfer windows.
Awardly opportunity intelligence
Stop Searching. Start Finding the Right Opportunities.
The most successful contractors do not wait for opportunities to appear. They build systems that help them identify opportunities early, track agency buying trends, monitor competitors, and make smarter bid decisions.
- Discover matching opportunities
- Monitor agencies and competitors
- Organize your pipeline
- Go / No-Go scorecards from SAM.gov
- Forecast and recompete radar
- Prime Contractor Finder - find primes holding the vehicles and contracts you want to subcontract under
- Built-in AI proposal assistant
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