Find federal opportunities worth a look

You have a capability and an industry code, and you want the shortlist rather than the firehose.

Who this is for

Written for Small federal contractors, capture consultants. 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.

Your capability in a sentence
Your NAICS code or the closest description
The window you are scanning
Your set-aside statuses, if you have them

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.

Find open and early-stage federal opportunities for [capability] in [NAICS] over [period]. Separate active solicitations from sources sought and from pre-solicitation notices, show the deadline, agency and set-aside wherever they are returned, and tell me which details about my profile you still need before judging fit.

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

Which of these are sources sought rather than live solicitations.

Which agencies are buying this most often in the same window.

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.

A shortlist, grouped by notice type
Deadline, agency, set-aside and notice link per row
The replacement and amendment history where it exists
What still has to be checked in the solicitation itself

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.

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.

SAM.gov contract opportunities

The exact names, and where to read the detail

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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.