Benchmark an agency and competitor market

You need to know who wins this work, how concentrated the market is, and what comparable awards went for.

Who this is for

Written for Capture teams, pricing analysts, boutique researchers. 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 NAICS or product service code
The agency
The fiscal years to cover

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 [NAICS or PSC], [agency] and [period], compare the publicly recorded awards and the incumbents, summarise how concentrated the market is, and list comparable award amounts with their caveats. Include the protest history if it is relevant, and do not present any of this as a price-to-win recommendation.

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

Who are the top holders by obligated amount, and how much of the total do they hold.

Which of those awards look like follow-ons rather than new work.

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.

Concentration for the industry and period, with the measure named
The leading holders and their share
Comparable award values with their caveats
Protest activity as context, not as a risk score

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 records
SAM.gov contract awards
GAO bid protest decisions

The exact names, and where to read the detail

gao-bid-protests

gao_bid_protests_protest_velocity_by_agency
gao_bid_protests_protests_for_agency
gao_bid_protests_recent_sustained_protests

sam-contract-awards

sam_contract_awards_recent_awards_by_naics
sam_contract_awards_awards_by_agency

usaspending

usaspending_find_competitor_awards
usaspending_incumbent_for_opportunity
usaspending_naics_market_share

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.