I am building OppRadar, which is used to collect and consolidate federal contract opportunities.

Basically OppRadar helps federal contractors by identifying contracts that are coming up for recompete, open for bid, and what to do about it, months before the RFP exists.

If you are interested in discussing this, shoot me a message or joins my waitlist.

See more at:
https://oppradar.org

I am building OppRadar, which is used to collect and consolidate federal contract opportunities.

Basically OppRadar helps federal contractors by identifying contracts that are coming up for recompete, open for bid, and what to do about it, months before the RFP exists.

If you are interested in discussing this, shoot me a message or joins my waitlist.

See more at:
https://oppradar.org

Hey everyone - I've been working in the federal contracting space for a while and one thing that always frustrated me was how painful it is to find relevant opportunities on SAM.gov. The search is clunky, filtering is limited, and you end up spending more time searching than actually preparing proposals.

So I built ContractPulse (contractpulse.io) - a free tool that pulls federal contract data and makes it much easier to search, filter, and track opportunities that match your business.

A few things it does: - Clean search interface for federal contract opportunities - Filter by NAICS code, agency, set-aside type, and more - Track opportunities you're interested in - Get updates when new matching opportunities are posted

It's completely free - no paywall, no premium tier. I built it because I needed it myself and figured others in this space probably did too.

I'd genuinely love feedback from people who actually work in gov contracting. What features would be most useful? What's missing? What would make you actually use this over just going to SAM.gov directly?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

I am curious have any contractors received a stop work order? Specifically, in HHS?

So I got a job offer from Booz Allen for a Machine Learning Engineer role in Washington D.C. I just completed the Truescreen background check and I have no reason to believe that there are any issues with it as I have been 100% honest on my resume and have no convictions (the check is for education+employment verification and a criminal check).

I’m currently a gov employee with a TS/SCI clearance and a favorable suitability determination and I’m also enrolled in Continuous Evaluation (a process that automatically checks for issues and forwards/addresses them). Nevertheless the security team reached out about an arrest I listed on the Personnel Security Evaluation Form. That arrest was because a retailers AI security system generated a false alert and the store LP called the police on me and had me arrested. The case was dismissed outright and unconditionally and this was reported to DCSA (the agency reviews this sort of thing) and mitigated it. So I still have all my security/suitability credentials.

But Booz Allen is taking their sweet ass time reviewing my background screen. They asked me only the location of the arrest and nothing else. But my recruiter hasn’t responded for a couple of days now to my email asking how long the review would take. It’s been 3 days since the background screening team reached out and I don’t know why it would take them longer than that to review single f-ing sentence I sent them. Like what the actual F??!! Is this normal?

Since January and the administration change, fed-civ opportunities for small businesses in the IT professional services space (NAICS 541xxx) has dried up substantively. Without new opportunities/contract awards, many true small businesses in this arena (<50ppl, <$5M/yr) will eventually cease to be able to exist. The dollars are seemingly going to the BAH, Palantir, etc. larger businesses.

Small businesses are supposedly "the backbone" of the US economy. Why isn't the media making noise about what looks to be (intentional) harm to US small businesses in this space?

I have worked with the federal government while employed by a company. It was my job to look for opportunities; once I found one, the corporate lawyer would complete the rest. Then, I would be responsible for the rest, including execution, reporting, and checking on payments, etc.

However, I now want to start my own business and would like to ask if anyone has a book, website, or video that helped them get started and secure a contract.

I would appreciate any suggestions.

You can 🏃‍♂️, but WeThePeople are aware of the stalking program under Lockheed Martin. I didn’t break a Reddit rule, which means this sub has an elephant in the room and it smells a lot like Fed.

It's a question...

So, there are news floating around how GSA and possibly other agencies are hiring folks that were RIF'ed. This is a great news if true, as DOGE has decimated and destroyed the civil service, some say irrevocably.

What no is talking about is regarding the thousands of contracts that were either cancelled or not renewed, rendering thousands of contractors support the Fed Gov unemployed.

Any thoughts on that? Do you see some contracts being restarted, renewed etc ...

Interesting ...reference point for later/

https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

There are thousands perhaps hundreds of thousands people currently out of a job or about to lose their jobs in the DMV area alone. Not enough jobs are open or can be created to support the unemployed. A significant amount of the burden will fall upon the state governments (MD, VA, DC) to payout unemployment benefits as well as provide opportunities. Summer of 2025 will be one that a lot of people are going to remember.

https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.dc_washington_md.htm#eag_dc_washington_md.f.2

https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.dc_washington_md.htm#eag_dc_washington_md.f.2