SAM.gov lists every federal contract opportunity, but it's hard to search and easy to miss deadlines in. FedReady downloads the government's full daily data each night, cleans it up, and gives small businesses a fast search, saved opportunities and email alerts.
Every federal contract opportunity is posted on SAM.gov, free to anyone. But a small business owner looking for work in their field has to wade through amendments posted as separate notices, deadlines with missing time zones, and a search that's built for procurement officers, not for a five-person contractor.
A scheduled job runs at about 4:30 AM Eastern, after SAM.gov refreshes its daily extract. It downloads the full opportunities file and loads it into a Postgres database. Separate nightly jobs pull the entity registrations (filtered to small and SBA-certified firms) and agency procurement forecasts.
Amendments are grouped by agency, solicitation number and title, and only the newest version is shown. Deadlines without a time zone are read as US Eastern, and a bare date means the end of that day, so "open for bids" actually means open.
Businesses create a profile, save searches and opportunities, and get daily or weekly email digests of new matches, amendments to opportunities they follow, and upcoming deadlines. Alerts run only after a successful sync, so nobody gets an email built on half-loaded data.
Next.js on Vercel, Postgres on Supabase, Python sync scripts and GitHub Actions. Every change runs lint, type checks and a test that applies the database schema twice to a fresh database to prove it's safe to rerun. Sign-in uses hashed passwords and session cookies, with rate limits.
Most small businesses won't need a platform like FedReady. But the pattern behind it fits plenty of everyday problems: pull data from where it lives, clean it up on a schedule, and put the useful part in front of the people who need it, by email or on a simple screen.
A web platform that helps small businesses find, track and bid on federal contracts from SAM.gov, with search, saved opportunities and daily or weekly email digests. It's live at fedready.us.
Yes, when a spreadsheet or an off-the-shelf tool can't do the job. We build lean: managed hosting, a standard database, and scheduled jobs instead of servers to babysit. See AI tools & automation.
The public daily extract has every opportunity in one file, needs no API key and has no rate limit. For a nightly full refresh, that's simpler and more reliable than paging through an API.
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