About Contract Award Watch

Contract Award Watch publishes two daily digests built from public federal contracting data: opportunities small businesses can still bid on, and contract awards won by publicly traded companies. Both are aimed at people who don't work in government contracting for a living and don't want to wade through raw procurement listings to find out what changed today.

Where the data comes from

Every entry traces back to one of three free, public government data sources:

• SAM.gov — the federal government's System for Award Management publishes a daily bulk extract of every open contract opportunity, presolicitation, and sources-sought notice across every agency.
• USAspending.gov — the U.S. Treasury's spending transparency site, which records every federal contract transaction as it happens.
• SEC EDGAR — the Securities and Exchange Commission's public filing database, used to match a contract award's recipient to its publicly traded parent company (when one exists) and to pull that company's reported annual revenue.

How it's produced

Each day, a pipeline pulls fresh data from these sources, matches opportunities against a fixed set of small-business niches (or, for contract wins, resolves the winning company to a stock ticker and scores how large the award is relative to that company's revenue), and drafts a plain-English write-up of each entry using an AI model. That draft never ships on its own: a second, independent AI model checks every dollar amount, deadline, agency name, and ticker in the draft against the original source data and rejects anything that doesn't match verbatim or that reads like generic filler. A separate deterministic style check also runs, since we don't want the writing to read like a template. Only entries that pass both checks are published here; anything that fails is held back for manual review and never appears on the site.

Who it's for

The opportunities digests are written for small-business owners and their staff who want a fast daily read on new federal work in their trade, without digging through SAM.gov's own interface. The public-company digest is written for retail investors who want to know when a company they follow lands a federal contract large enough to matter, without needing to read a procurement filing to understand why. Nothing on this site is investment advice, and nothing here should be your only source before bidding on a contract or making a financial decision.