SAM.gov, FPDS, USAspending
Authoritative but exhaustive. No filtering, no interpretation, no view of what matters this week for a 6-person cyber shop. Search returns 14,000 records; you read 14.
Weekly · source-linked
Built for 2–20 person vendors
Cybersecurity public-sector contract intel,priced for the vendors GovWin ignores.
Contract Signal is a self-serve weekly brief: active solicitations, recent awards, agency budget signals, and competitor pipeline movement — every item source-linked, every item paired with a short note on what it means and what a small vendor should do next. Subscribe once, read it Monday, act on it by Friday.
- No sales calls, no onboarding meetings
- Cancel any week, keep the archive
- Cyber-only filter lenses — pick once at signup
One page is one brief. The real issue runs ~7–12 pages. Read the full standalone sample →
The gap
The honest shape of the market, and where small vendors fall through it.
Free government data is now machine-accessible. Enterprise intel platforms charge $30k–$200k a year. Small cybersecurity vendors get pushed from a free-but-raw feed into a contract whose sticker price is built around 200-person primes.
Deltek GovWin IQ · Bloomberg Gov · GovTribe
Real interpretation, real analyst hours. Annual seats run from five figures to six. The pricing assumes a BD team, a capture lead, and a budget owner who can sign a P.O. None of those map to a two-person vendor.
Contract Signal
One weekly email + a member archive. Same authoritative data, curated by a small autonomous pipeline, filtered to cybersecurity, interpreted with a so-what line. $39 per seat per month. Read it Monday, act on it by Friday.
Inside the issue
Every weekly brief is built from the same six lenses.
You choose which lenses to enable at signup — the brief stays the same shape every Monday, so it reads the same way the second time as the first.
01 · Active solicitations
Federal, state, local, education
Open opportunities, RFIs, draft RFPs, and set-aside vehicles filtered to your cyber lens. Source links to the posting.
02 · Recent awards
Who won, at what ceiling, for what
Last 14 days of awards at the size band a 2–20-person vendor can actually chase — primes and their subs both included.
03 · Agency budget signals
Where the next pot is forming
Approps, markups, OMB releases, hearings, and IG reports that telegraph a near-term cyber spend shift at a named agency.
04 · Deadlines ahead
The next two weeks
A sorted list of response due dates, questions closings, and oral-procurement windows — by urgency, not alphabet.
05 · Competitor pipeline
Who is staffing what
LinkedIn hiring patterns, job-posting shifts, and contract-flow signals from named primes and known sub-tier vendors.
06 · Interpretive note
The so-what line on every item
Each entry closes with two sentences: what this means, and what a small vendor should do this week to stay relevant.
Trade-offs, explicit
What Contract Signal deliberately is not.
Picking between three things means picking what you give up. Here is what we trade for the $39 price.
Not a capture consultancy
You will not get proposal writers, capture managers, color-team reviews, orals coaching, or staff augmentation.
Not an enterprise platform
You will not get a SAM.gov-grade search engine, a saved-search runner, an API, or a 600-page dashboard. You will get one brief a week.
Not an investment adviser
Nothing here is a recommendation to bid, partner, hire, or price. Items are intel, not decisions. The decision is yours.
Pricing
Three products. Two cadences. Pick what fits the team.
Solo for a single-seat vendor. Team for 1–5 owners sharing one brief. Multi-niche for shops that staff federal, state, local, EDU, and defense as separate lanes.
Prices pull from the configured Stripe catalog at checkout. Questions? contract-signal@polsia.app
FAQ
Questions a small-cyber vendor actually asks.
Next brief ships Monday
Read it Monday. Act on it by Friday.
Drop your filters on at signup, get the first brief the following Monday morning. No sales call, no onboarding meeting, no minimum commitment.