Every business day the US federal government publishes hundreds of new contract opportunities on SAM.gov. It is the single largest buyer in the world, and unlike most B2B pipelines, everything is public: what they want to buy, when responses are due, who the contracting officer is, and whether the contract is reserved for small businesses.
The problem is not access. The problem is that actually working with SAM.gov means refreshing a slow portal, fighting saved-search emails that arrive late, or wrestling an official API that returns deeply nested records, cryptic set-aside codes and HTML-polluted descriptions.
I got tired of it and built a feed that does one thing: give me the opportunities matching my filters as clean JSON, with the fields I actually need for a go/no-go decision. This post shows what it returns and how to use it.
What a useful opportunity record looks like
Here is a real record from a cybersecurity keyword scan (trimmed for length):
