Sources & honesty
Federal MVP Suite runs on public government data only. Nothing is scraped from private sites, bought, or invented, and every app shows when each source was last refreshed. This page names every one of them, in full — not a sample.
| Source | Owner | What it feeds |
|---|---|---|
| SAM.gov Get Opportunities API | GSA | Contract opportunities, amendments, notice details |
| SAM.gov notice attachments | GSA | Requirements, forms, clauses, deadlines (quoted with page) |
| SAM.gov wage determinations | DOL / GSA | Wage-determination reminders in pricing |
| SBIR/STTR notices on SAM.gov | GSA / SBA | SBIR/STTR opportunities |
| SBIR.gov award-search API | SBA | SBIR/STTR award history for market research |
| USAspending.gov API | U.S. Treasury | Past awards, recompetes, competitors, winners, teaming, vehicle holders |
| GSA CALC+ labor rates | GSA | Awarded ceiling labor rates for pricing |
| GSA per diem rates | GSA | Travel costs by location |
| GSA Acquisition Gateway Forecast Tool | GSA | Agency forecasts of planned buys |
| Grants.gov API | HHS | Federal grant opportunities matched to your keywords |
| RAMP LA open bids (data.lacity.org) | City of Los Angeles | California state and local bids: City and County of LA, Water & Power, airports, LAUSD |
| City of Austin open solicitations | City of Austin | Texas local bids, with buyer and small/minority business contacts |
| TxDOT open lettings (data.texas.gov) | Texas DOT | Texas highway construction and maintenance bids (informational; bid from TxDOT's official proposal) |
| NYC Current Solicitations (data.cityofnewyork.us) | NYC Dept. of Citywide Administrative Services | New York City local bids: every agency's procurement notice published in the City Record (informational; respond through PASSPort) |
| GSA Forms Library | GSA | Official SF 1449, SF 33, SF 30 forms |
| Acquisition.gov (FAR) | GSA | Rules cited in the guided bid path |
| eCFR | National Archives | Size standards and protest rules |
| SBA certifications | SBA | Set-aside eligibility references |
| GSA Advantage | GSA | Equipment and supply price references (links only; no data copied) |
How often we collect
Every source refreshes on its own realistic schedule — never slowed down to look busier, never sped up to look fresher than it is.
| Refresh | Sources |
|---|---|
| Every day, about 6:15 a.m. Eastern | SAM.gov opportunities (every industry) and SBIR/STTR notices |
| Daily | USAspending awards, competitor & subaward intel, agency forecasts, grants, state & local bids, amendment/requirement re-checks on anything you're pursuing |
| Weekly | SBIR/STTR award history, vehicle holders & task orders, recompete radar, GSA CALC+ labor rates, GSA per diem rates |
| On demand (when you open it) | SAM.gov notice attachments, requirements extraction, FAR/eCFR/SBA reference links, GSA Forms, GSA Advantage |
Every app shows the real timestamp of its own last successful pull — never "recently" or a vague freshness badge.
What "never invented" means in practice
This isn't just a slogan on this page — it's enforced in the code, in ways you can see for yourself:
- A source that fails stays failed, out loud. If SAM.gov's API is down, or SBA's award-search API has an outage, the sources page says exactly that and names the error — it never quietly falls back to old data or a plausible-looking sample.
- A proposal never fills a gap with a guess. Where Capstat's Proposal Builder doesn't actually know a fact — your technical approach, a price, a past-performance detail — it leaves a highlighted
[TO COMPLETE]marker instead of writing something that merely sounds right. The "Help me write this" AI buttons work the same way: they draft only from facts already in your profile or the solicitation text, with the source cited. - A thin result says why it's thin. If a notice can't be fully read because no SAM.gov key is on file, the app says that specifically — it doesn't quietly return a shorter answer and let you assume that's all there is.
- Nothing is purchased or scraped to pad the numbers. Every source above is a direct government API or an official open-data feed the agency itself publishes. We don't buy third-party listing aggregators, and we don't scrape sites that block automated access or require a login.
State and local: what we don't read
We read state and local bids only from official feeds and downloads their owners publish for the public. We don't read sites that block automated access or require a login: that includes the Texas Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD), Cal eProcure (until we confirm its terms), and the Dallas, Fort Worth, Harris County, and San Antonio bid portals. States and cities beyond California, Texas, and New York City haven't been reviewed yet for a usable open feed — that's a gap, not a rejection. Small purchases agencies never post publicly aren't covered anywhere. Every bid links to its original posting; bid from the official documents.