Prepare an agency or recompete brief

An agency is on the account plan, or a contract you care about is approaching its end date.

Who this is for

Written for GovCon business development teams. You bring the commercial question; the published record behind it comes back with the answer, and you can see where each figure came from.

What to bring

Have these to hand before you paste the prompt. Anything you leave out should be asked for rather than guessed at.

The agency, and the sub-agency if you know it
Your NAICS code or codes
How far ahead you want the expiring pipeline

Try this prompt

Paste this where you connected HARBOR Port and replace the bracketed parts. It asks for sources and periods on purpose: that is what makes the answer checkable.

For [agency] and [NAICS], identify the material awards expiring in the next [window], who currently holds them, which way the agency's spending has moved recently, and whether any matching notices are already posted. Link the records, and say where an end date is not the same thing as a confirmed recompete.

Then ask a narrower question. These are the ones people ask next.

Which of those holders also won elsewhere at the same agency.

Which expiring awards have no replacement notice posted yet.

What the answer looks like

The shape below is the point of the workflow. If a response arrives without the periods and the source behind each number, ask for them before you use it.

Expiring awards with holder, value and end date
The agency's recent spending direction for that industry
Any posted replacement or amendment, linked
The gap between an end date and a decision to recompete

Limits to keep in view

Recorded award values are history. They are not a current price, a margin, a price-to-win, or a recommendation to bid.

Census, BEA and BLS series are published on different calendars and for different periods. Every figure carries the period and geography that were actually returned, not the one that was asked for.

Not answered by this data:

Your revenue, customers, bookings, pipeline or churn
Inventory, capacity, staffing rosters or payroll
Your actual utility bills, fuel spend or supplier quotes
Business credit, insurance premiums, or lending decisions
Permit, licence or certification status
A local forecast, a hazard estimate, or a legal opinion

Where the numbers come from

The answer is built from the published sources below. Each one keeps its own geography, period and definitions, and the answer states which was used.

USAspending award and spending records
SAM.gov opportunities and amendments

The exact names, and where to read the detail

sam-opportunities

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sam_opportunities_sources_sought_in_window
sam_opportunities_opportunities_in_naics_window

usaspending

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usaspending_incumbent_for_opportunity
usaspending_agency_spend_velocity

Scoped to what your plan reaches, and to the sources each workflow names. Reviewing the catalogue first is the cheap way to decide whether this covers your question: source catalogue.