What's new at Firmenza: exclusions in the daily watch, your own dates, a package and more

On a saved notice's page, "Your own date" lets you set a date before the response date, to finish your own work first. Your reminder email names it on that day, and the notice's calendar file carries both dates. Firmenza never works one date out from the other and never moves a date you set.

Your dashboard has a new card, "Dates coming up": from your saved contract opportunities, the response dates and your own dates in the coming week, soonest first, each linked to its notice, with a count of the rest on your saved list. Dates only, with no countdown.

If you turned them on, Found by AI reads new grant opportunities from Grants.gov and New York City bid notices as well as contract notices. Since October 31 you can press "Save" on a grant or city pick too. It goes to that list's Saved tab with a "Found by AI" chip in place of a match level, and the New York City list now has a Saved tab of its own, where a saved notice has "Remove from Saved".

On a saved notice, "Download your package" gives you one ZIP file of what you have confirmed on it: a cover sheet with the notice's title, number, agency, response date and the contact it names; your requirements checklist and your Section L and M table as spreadsheets; your draft as a Word file, once you mark it final; and your capability statement as a Word file, if you saved one. You submit it yourself, the way the notice says.

From your dashboard, the basic safeguarding self-check lists the 15 basic safeguarding requirements of FAR clause 52.204-21, which some federal contracts include and which CMMC Level 1 is built on, in the clause's own words, each with Firmenza's one-line explanation. You mark each one "In place", "Not yet" or "Not sure".

Your answers are private to your account. The count it shows is a count of your own marks, not a score, and Firmenza never makes, files or affirms anything in SPRS or anywhere else from them. Our post on the self-check says more.

A contract notice or a grant opportunity whose own title or description names SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) or STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) now carries that tag, and the lists have a "Program" filter, "SBIR and STTR only". The tag reads those words only. The notice says who may take part.

A search box in the signed-in menu, and a search page, search what is in your Firmenza account and our guides: your saved notices, current matches, Found by AI picks, drafts, past performance records, capability statement, tasks and inbox, and our guides and posts. Type a word or two, such as a notice title, a solicitation number or an agency.

The words you type are searched inside Firmenza only and are never sent to a model. A query that looks like a tax, bank or account number is refused, and nothing is searched for it.

On a saved notice, the AI assistant now reads the solicitation beside Firmenza's rules and lists more requirements, each with a quote from its page, and sets out Sections L and M in a table where the solicitation has them. It also proposes the key dates it finds in the document as tasks, each a card in your inbox that waits for your decision. Proposal drafts, and response drafts for a Sources Sought or Special Notice, write from your own records only, with sources under each paragraph. Our posts on the requirements checklist and on going from a saved notice to a draft show how to use them.

On a contract notice's page, "Who did this work before" lists recent awards from USAspending.gov, matched by the notice's own solicitation number first, then by the same agency and NAICS code, and says which rule found them. When no award matches that closely, "Past awards for this kind of work" gives a range across recent awards in the notice's code. Both are public history, not a price to bid.

On the market view, a new list ranks the recipients with the most dollars obligated in your NAICS codes in the period, largest first, each code contributing its largest. Many first contracts come as a subcontract to one of these. Since October 31 the market view also counts the award notices posted in your codes on SAM.gov's public list, with the award amounts they state. These are past awards and past notices only; they do not say what an agency will buy next.

Found by AI, the AI assistant's reading and drafts, the package and the market view come with Pro and its trial. The watch, the self-check and search are open to every account. The launch offer's dates have moved on by a month: the pricing page has the dates, and says what each package includes.