New: Narrow Your Search Down to the Contracts You Can Actually Win

A good search gets you close. Tags get you the rest of the way. You can now narrow your results by the details on the posting itself — who it’s set aside for, which department put it out, what kind of work it’s coded as — so you spend your time on the contracts you can actually win, not the ones you have to read to rule out.

An example

Say you’re an 8(a)-certified electrical contractor in Georgia. You search “commercial electrical” and get a page of results — some worth a look, plenty not, and no fast way to tell which. Open Advanced filters, drop down to Tags, pick Set-Aside, and tick 8A. The list collapses to the handful actually set aside for 8(a) firms — the ones you’re eligible to bid. That’s the difference between “interesting” and “I can bid this.”

What you can filter by

Tags come straight from the original government posting, so what’s available depends on what the agency published. The ones you’ll see most often are the set-aside (small-business, 8(a), WOSB, and the like), the department or office that posted the work, the commodity code it’s filed under (NIGP or commodity category), and the solicitation number, which you can type in to look up one specific posting.

Honest about coverage

Different agencies publish different details, so the tags on offer change with your search — you only ever see tags your current results actually carry. That’s on purpose: a count sits beside every value, so you know how many contracts a filter will keep before you click it, and the picker never offers you one that would return nothing. Tick a couple of values under one tag and you widen the search; add a second tag and you narrow it to contracts that match both.

It sticks to your saved searches

Tags are part of the search, not a separate setting. So when you save a search, its tags are saved with it — and when you switch on daily email alerts, they come along. Save “commercial electrical” filtered to Set-Aside: 8A and the only contracts that ever land in your inbox are the 8(a) electrical jobs you can bid. Saved searches and alerts are part of Pro.

Try it

Filtering by tags is free for everyone — there’s no upgrade in the way. Head to the search page, run a search, open Advanced filters, and try a tag or two. New here? Create a free account to get started. Want the full walkthrough? How to filter contracts by tags.