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Prepared for Azukia. A running list of open federal, state, and grant opportunities across four capability areas: IT services, IT hardware and equipment, electrical and fiber infrastructure, and workforce training.
Built for Wakeem (Helix Stax), TMO (electrical and fiber), and Azukia (workforce and reentry training) to review together before deciding what to pursue. Use the capability filter below to narrow the board to your area. This board does not score fit or recommend a bid — that judgment stays with the three of you.
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An agency posts a notice when it wants to buy something, training services included. From notice to award usually runs a few weeks to a few months: the agency posts the notice, contractors ask questions, someone submits a proposal, then the agency picks a winner. Not every notice below is ready for that last step. Some are still market research, and the board tells you which is which.
Sources Sought is not a Solicitation. This is the distinction that costs people the most time.
A Sources Sought notice is the agency checking who exists before it writes the real requirement. You cannot submit a bid to one. You respond by describing your capability and past performance, so the agency knows a business like yours can do the work, and a strong response can shape the eventual solicitation in your favor.
A Solicitation (also posted as an RFP, RFQ, or Combined Synopsis/Solicitation) is the real thing. The agency is ready to receive proposals, and this is the one you can actually bid on. Any card below marked "Not biddable yet" is a Sources Sought or similar research notice, not a missed deadline.
Set-asides
A set-aside restricts who is allowed to compete for a notice, usually to small businesses or a certified category such as Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned or 8(a). No set-aside listed means any business meeting the agency's other requirements can compete, large businesses included.
NAICS and PSC codes
NAICS classifies what industry the work falls under. You'll see 334111 (computer manufacturing) most often on this board, followed by 611430 (professional and management development training). PSC classifies the specific product or service being purchased. Both let you judge whether a notice actually matches what you do before you read the whole thing.
Deadlines and SAM.gov registration
The due date is when your proposal must be submitted, not when you can start preparing it. You need an active SAM.gov registration to bid on a federal opportunity, and registration can take one to two weeks to process, sometimes longer if anything gets flagged for review. Register before you find a notice worth bidding on, not after.
Fit score
Every card shows a fit score from 0 to 100. It is a heuristic ranking aid built from what the solicitation documents say: past-performance requirements, set-aside match, deal size, and similar signals. It is not a prediction. We have no historical win data behind it, so it is not a win probability and should never be read as one.
Open "Why this fit score" on any card to see the factors behind the number, split into strengths, concerns, and not yet checked. "Not yet checked" means the attachment hasn't been analyzed for that factor. That's missing evidence, not a mark against the opportunity. Read the factors before you trust the number, and feel free to disagree with it.
Low-hanging fruit
A row is flagged as low-hanging fruit when it clears a qualification filter built for a firm with no federal past performance yet: things like small micro-purchases, brand-name-or-equal commodity buys, and notices with no past-performance scoring factor. It is a heuristic, not a guarantee, and it will sometimes get a row wrong in either direction. Every flagged card shows the reasons it qualified; every non-qualifying card shows what held it back, including cases where the scraper simply didn't have enough information to judge — that reads as unknown, not as a rejection. Read the reasons before you act on the badge.
The fastest way to find what's relevant to you: hardware for Wakeem, electrical and fiber for TMO, training for Azukia.
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