Daily alerts
Government contract alerts, matched to your business
An email alert as soon as we find a federal, state, or local contract that matches one of your saved searches — scored by AI that reads the full posting, not just keywords. Stop checking multiple portals by hand. Stop missing opportunities you would have won.
Daily alerts on Pro ($30/month). Free tier covers 5 daily searches with no credit card.
SAM.gov doesn’t cover state. State portals don’t talk to each other.
SAM.gov has saved-search email alerts, and they work — for federal-only bidders with narrow NAICS codes and matching agency vocabulary. Once you bid across states or cities, the system breaks. Each state portal has its own login, its own alert format, and its own filter logic. Most city portals don’t have alerts at all.
The alternative — checking each portal by hand every day — doesn’t scale. Most small businesses try it for a month, miss a contract, and stop. The contract that closed without you bidding is the one you needed most.
How ContractRadar alerts work
Save a search and switch on alerts
Save a search — your keywords, place of performance, and filters — and switch on alerts for it. Setup takes a couple of minutes. The AI reads the full posting by meaning, not just keywords.
Each new posting gets checked against your saved searches
Semantic embedding match (does the contract description match the meaning of your saved search?) and the place of performance you saved act as an eligibility gate. Only postings that clear the alert threshold make the cut.
You get an email alert as soon as there's a match
As soon as we find a contract matching one of your saved searches, you get an email alert — so you only hear from us when there's something worth bidding on. Each contract shows the title, agency, deadline, the source's own tags (NAICS or commodity code, department, set-aside where the source provides them), and a deep link to the full posting. Click through to your dashboard to set its bid status (Interested, Bidding, Submitted, Won, or Lost) and track your whole pipeline by stage — right where you found the work.
Past awards built in
Federal matches also pull historical awards from USAspending.gov for the same agency and NAICS when available. You see who won similar work and at what amounts before deciding whether to bid. State and local awards aren't tracked in USAspending.gov, so this context only applies to federal opportunities.
What’s monitored
- Federal (2 sources): SAM.gov (all federal solicitations), SBA SUBNet (subcontracting opportunities from large primes).
- State (49 sources): California, Texas, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Virginia, Georgia, and 40 more.
- Local (565 sources): ACES Educational Services, NM, Ada County, ID, Akron, OH, Alachua County, FL, Alameda County, CA, Alamogordo, NM, Albuquerque, NM, Alcoa, TN, Alexandria, VA, Allegheny County, PA, Allen, TX, Amarillo, TX, American Canyon, CA, Ames, IA, Anaheim, CA, Anderson School District One, SC, Arlington, TX, Ascension Parish Schools, LA, Ascension Parish, LA, Athens-Clarke County, GA, Atlanta, GA, Augusta, GA, and 543 more.
See the full list on the coverage page.
Set up alerts in a couple of minutes
- Create a free account. Email and password — no credit card required.
- Run a search.Describe what you’re looking for in plain language, then narrow by place of performance and filters.
- Verify your free matches.Run a few semantic searches to make sure the AI is finding the right work. If the matches look right, you’re set.
- Save the search and switch on alerts. Upgrade to Pro to turn on daily emails — $30/month, cancel anytime, no annual contract.