InstantSam vs GovCon Radar

InstantSam reads federal contract solicitations for you, up to fifteen attachments on a notice, and tells you what the work is, what it requires and what would disqualify you. Then it drafts your proposal from your own record, tracks every bid you chase, and shows you what you win and why you lose. WHAT IT DOES WITH A SOLICITATION Open any notice and have the documents read. You get back: - The scope of work, in plain language - Every mandatory requirement, with the sentence it came from - How offers will be evaluated - What would make your offer non-responsive - The risks worth knowing before you bid HOME: WHAT NEEDS A DECISION TODAY InstantSam opens on what needs a decision: amendments to notices you are pursuing, deadlines this week, and closed bids with no result recorded. NOTICES: SEARCH, MATCHES AND ALERTS Search every open federal opportunity by keyword, NAICS code, agency or set-aside, and save a search as an alert. WHETHER YOU CAN BID Save your NAICS codes and set-aside statuses once. Every notice then opens with a straight answer: strong match, worth a look, or probably not, with the reasons. WHAT CHANGED When a pursued notice is amended, InstantSam says what changed: a moved deadline, a changed set-aside, new attachments, a cancellation. YOUR PROPOSAL, DRAFTED Each section of your outline is drafted from what it must answer, quoted from the solicitation, and from your own company record. A fact only you can supply is marked in brackets; prices are never written. Redraft a section with your own instruction and share the draft in Word. PURSUITS: EVERY BID YOU ARE CHASING Create a pursuit from any notice in one step. Move it from Watching to Bidding to Submitted, then record Won, Lost or No bid, and why. REPORTS: WHAT YOU WIN, AND WHY YOU LOSE Win rate, won value, median award and how long bids take, from the results you record, and why pursuits ended. THE REST - A deadline calendar, including when questions close - Reminders before an 8(a), WOSB, HUBZone or SDVOSB certification expires - Award outcomes: who won what you pursued, and what they were paid PLANS Free: search every open opportunity, create pursuits, Home, the deadline calendar, wage determination warnings, and your first 3 AI document reviews. Essential, $29.99 a month: 6 document reviews and checklists a month, the AI bid assistant with 10 uses a month, alerts and matches, amendment watch, the daily digest, fit assessment, certification reminders, Reports and proposal files. Professional, $69.99 a month: everything in Essential, plus 20 reviews, 25 assistant uses and 5 proposal drafts a month, award history and pricing, the Recompete Radar, market view, forecasts, contract vehicles, company and officer search and teaming partners. First two months of a first subscription: $19.99 on Essential, $49.99 on Professional. No annual contract. Cancel any time. InstantSam also runs in your browser at instantsam.com, with the same account. INSTANTSAM IS NOT SAM.GOV InstantSam is a privately operated commercial software service from InstantSam LLC. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by or operated by the United States Government, the General Services Administration, or the System for Award Management. SAM.gov is a free service of the US Government, and you can register and search there at no cost. What you pay InstantSam for is the software. Opportunity and registration data comes from SAM.gov. Award and spending data comes from USASpending.gov. Both are public US government sources. AI analysis is a research aid, not legal or contractual advice. Always confirm requirements and deadlines against the official notice on SAM.gov before you bid.

GovCon Radar reads every federal contract opportunity posted to SAM.gov and scores it against your company profile, so you see the handful worth your time instead of a thousand notices that aren't. Describe your company once: NAICS codes, set-aside eligibility, geography, and a plain-English capability statement. GovCon Radar matches new opportunities against that profile through the day and explains every score, showing which factors matched and which didn't. When an opportunity looks promising, ask for a brief. You get a plain-language summary of what the agency is buying, the key requirements, and an honest go or pass recommendation. A pass that saves you a wasted bid week is worth as much as a win. Save opportunities to read offline, get a push notification when the daily digest lands, and keep your pipeline moving from your phone. The free tier is genuinely useful: real matches from your real profile, every day. Your capability statement is never used to train models, never shared across tenants, and never appears in logs. GovCon Radar is a product of Planetek LLC and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Government, SAM.gov, or any federal agency.