Your market view: who buys what you sell, and the contracts ending soon
What the market view shows: past awards in your codes, contracts ending soon and who did this work before.
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What is the market view?
Before you spend an evening on a notice, it helps to know who buys the kind of work you do. The market view, a tab on your opportunities page called "Who buys what you sell", answers that from past contract awards for the NAICS codes in your profile, as published by USAspending.gov, the Department of the Treasury's public site for federal spending data.
For each code it shows the top awarding agencies, the number of awards with activity in the period and the dollars obligated in it, with the period's dates, and recent awards, each with its recipient as USAspending.gov publishes it, the agency, the total obligated to date and the day it was first obligated, with its source. Each read is dated; when USAspending.gov could not be read today, the figures from an earlier day are shown with that day. Its data can lag behind recent awards, and it publishes Department of Defense figures later than others. These are past awards only. They do not say what an agency will buy next.
Which contracts in your codes end soon?
Under the code cards, "Contracts ending soon in your codes" lists contract awards in your profile's codes whose current period of performance ends within the next year, soonest first. Each row shows the awarding agency, the NAICS code, the end date, the award's own description and its source. No company name is in the list; that stays on the award's own page.
Each date is the end of the contract's current period of performance, as published on USAspending.gov. The agency decides whether to buy again, and when. Knowing these dates can help you plan ahead, and our guide on contracts ending soon says what a current end date and a potential end date mean and why an end date is not a promise of a new solicitation.
Who did this work before?
On a contract notice's page, "Who did this work before" lists awards from USAspending.gov and says which rule found them: "Same solicitation number" when an award carries the notice's own number, otherwise "Same agency and NAICS code". Each award shows its recipient, the agency, the total obligated to date, when its period of performance ends and when it was first obligated, with its source. "The current contract ends on" a date appears only when that contract is still running and ends within a year of the notice's response date; it is a date as published, never a prediction.
When no award matches that closely, "Past awards for this kind of work" gives the range of recent awards in the notice's NAICS code, with the awards listed, from three or more awards that state an amount. Under it, in the product's own words: "Public history, not a price to bid."
Who is getting the awards in your codes?
The market view also ranks the recipients with the most dollars obligated in your NAICS codes in the period, largest first, each code contributing its largest, as published by USAspending.gov. Many first contracts come as a subcontract to one of these.
"Award notices in your codes" counts the notices of the type "Award Notice" on SAM.gov's public list of contract notices, posted in the period for your codes, with the sum of the award amounts they state and how many state one. Not every award is posted as a notice, and some notices state no amount. These are past notices only.
What do these numbers not tell you?
They are public history. An award's amount is what the government obligated on that contract, shaped by its scope, its options and its changes, so it is not what the same work would be priced at under another contract, and never a price to bid. None of these pages says what to bid, whether an agency will buy the work again, or how your business would be rated. The amount to propose is your decision, and our guide on past contract awards explains what an award's amounts and dates mean and how current the data is.
The market view and the awards on a notice come with Pro and its trial. The pricing page says what Pro includes.
Free help also exists: APEX Accelerators (DoD-funded, free) and the Federal Service Desk will help you at no charge. We built Firmenza to be useful alongside them.
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