The daily watch and the matches, made more careful
Lapses caught, renewals noticed, changes to your own record, the exclusions list, and passed response dates.
The Firmenza team ·
What changed in the daily watch?
A registration that lapses between two checks is reported on the next check, even when the status on the record still says Active. Each read is judged on its own day: the earlier read against the day it was made, the new one against today, so a date that passed in between is news.
If a read finds no public record, the watch waits for a second read on a later day before it says anything. Then the email says the registration was not found or opted out of public display, and names the two reads. Your watch list keeps the last values it read. If the record comes back, we email you, saying what status the record shows; the same email goes out when a UEI you watched before it had a public record first shows one.
When the record shows the same registration Active with a later expiration date, the email says SAM.gov's public record now shows it expiring on the new date, names the date read before, and the reminders for the earlier date stop. We remind you before the new one.
What does it tell you about your own record?
When the legal business name, the physical address, the CAGE code, the names of the government and electronic business points of contact, or the NAICS codes on the public record change between two reads, you get one email with each change as a dated line: what the record said before, with the day it was read, and what it says now, with that day. Capital letters, spacing or a ZIP+4 alone are not reported as a change. It is compared from reads Firmenza already made, with no extra SAM.gov lookup, and it tells you what the public record says, not why.
Since October 31 the watch also reads SAM.gov's public list of active exclusion records for each registration you watch, about once a week, and emails you when a first read lists a record or the list changes, in SAM.gov's own words for each record and never a verdict. Questions about an exclusion are for a free counselor or an attorney. The card just below this post lists them.
What changed in the matches?
A notice whose response date has passed leaves the digest. On your list it is marked "Response date passed" with the date and, sorted by soonest response date, falls after every date still to come. A notice whose response date is not one Firmenza can read as a date says "See the notice for its response date".
When a matched notice's response date falls after the expiration date of a registration you watch, the notice says so, with both dates: responses are due on one date, after the expiration date of that registration on the other. On a contract notice it quotes FAR 52.204-7 beside it.
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