Guides

Practical notes for building on federal procurement data.

These guides are written for builders who need source-linked public records, stable IDs, documents, history, and award context without stitching every upstream system by hand.

SAM.gov rate-limit guide

SAM.gov API Rate Limits and How to Avoid Them

How to plan around SAM.gov daily API limits, page sizes, and date windows when building opportunity search, alerts, and record sync.

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SAM.gov API guide

Stop Stitching SAM.gov and USAspending Data Together

A practical guide to building on federal opportunity, document, history, and award context without maintaining separate procurement-data integrations.

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SAM.gov attachments guide

SAM.gov Opportunity Attachments via API

How to find SAM.gov opportunities with extracted attachment text, inspect document metadata, and fetch source-linked document fields.

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SAM.gov amendments guide

Tracking SAM.gov Amendments With a Change Feed

How to poll procurement changes, store cursors, and use opportunity history when SAM.gov notices are amended.

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Planned guide

Building a Reliable SAM.gov Bid Alert System

Use stable opportunity identity, change polling, documents, and history to avoid brittle keyword-only alert scripts.

Planned guide

Vendor Screening in Federal Contracting: Public Data That Matters

Connect entity registrations, exclusions, public responsibility records, and award history for supplier onboarding and risk review.

Planned guide

Why GovCon AI Agents Fail Without Stable Records

Agents need stable, source-linked procurement records, not only scraped pages or unbounded PDF chunks.