A friend of mine runs a small IT shop in Virginia. Twelve people, all of them billable.
Every Monday he blocks out three hours to comb SAM.gov. It's his least favorite part of the job, but he does it — because the work's out there, and somebody's going to get it.
Last month he found out he'd missed a contract by three days. Not because he was lazy. Because the agency had posted an "IT help desk support" job under a temp-staffing code. He filters by his NAICS codes, so it never showed up. It went to someone else.
Here's the part that gets me: this isn't rare. Contracting officers are busy. They grab the closest code. The work you're actually qualified for quietly posts somewhere you're not looking.
And the tools that catch this cost $15,000 a year.
So FedRadar does one thing: it reads every new federal IT contract, figures out what it's actually asking for — not what code it got tagged with — and sends you the ones that fit what you do. With a one-line reason why.
Like this:
NAICS 541512, SDVOSB set-aside, $2.4M, Virginia. Your "help desk" keyword shows up three times.
Ten seconds, and you know whether to bid.
It's $49 a month. Cancel whenever. If it surfaces one contract you'd have missed, it paid for itself about forty times over.
There's a free weekly digest if you want to see what it looks like before paying for anything.