Search and Track Potential Opportunities

Change Summary

Introduction

The Potential Opportunities feature in GovSearchAI provides a comprehensive search functionality of relevant government contracting opportunities within the U.S. federal market. Potential Opportunities incorporates opportunity sources from various sources, and applies our solution’s AI-powered algorithm to identify best-fit potential opportunities and help efficiently fill your pipeline.

Data Sources

TechnoMile’s industry-leading data lake aggregates, cleanses, organizes, and enriches data from top federal sources – such as USAspending, FPDS (Federal Procurement Data System), SAM (System for Award Management), FedConnect, APFS (Acquisition Planning Forecast System) procurement forecasts, and our proprietary contacts database – and delivers a single, consolidated view of this data through our GovSearchAI platform, including the industry’s most comprehensive view of contract vehicles and Task Orders. 

Audience

GovSearchAI and Growth Users

Potential Opportunities Tab

You can access this feature by clicking the Potential Opportunities tab on the GovSearchAI home page.

The following images illustrate views from various data sources:

FDPS

FedConnect

APFS

Default View

Once you log in and navigate to the Potential Opportunities page, a default list of opportunities based on your company Profile and past performance is displayed. Past performance data can include information on your NAICS and PSCs, top customers that have awarded work to your company, set aside statuses, and more. Based on this evaluation, a list of Potential Opportunities ranked by relevance is displayed.

Other sorting options available are shown below:

Results Display Card

Filtered search results are displayed as tiles sorted by relevance. Each tile can include the following important information:

• Potential Opportunity Type and ID: Can be Recompete or Solicitation

• Contract or Solicitation Type: Contract or Solicitation Type of the potential Opportunity

• Value: Estimated potential value of the Opportunity

• Number of Bidders: Number of contractors bidding on the Opportunity

• Set Aside: Indicates the set aside status of a specific Opportunity

• Relevance: Indicates the degree to which a match aligns with your filter criteria. It can take one of the following values:

  • Very High

  • High

  • Medium

  • Low

• Capabilities (AI Generated): Vendors may face challenges trying to understand the requirements for bidding for an Opportunity based on the information available in the results card. The Capabilities field highlights the types of capabilities required of a vendor who wants to bid for this Opportunity. This information is AI-generated based on the information available in the record.
  For example, for the Opportunity shown above, Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence are the capabilities that a vendor is expected to have.

• Summary (AI Generated): Based on the information available for an Opportunity, including the description, title, previous contractor, involved agency, estimated value, and any available documentation - a one-paragraph summary is generated. The purpose of the Summary field is to provide users with a concise overview of the key aspects of an Opportunity for quick understanding.

Notes:

• Summaries are not generated for Opportunities with a value of less than $1 million.

• Summaries are updated for:

  • Solicitations when a new notice is released

  • Awards when a new transaction is posted

  • Contract Vehicles when a new transaction or Task Order is posted

Advanced Search and Alert

Your organization's search filters are already in place. This means you will see relevant Opportunities right away on the Potential Opportunities page.

If you have multiple portfolios, serve different business units, accounts or customers and therefore need to further refine the system-generated search results or completely alter your filter criteria, click Advanced Search and Alert.
The following is the criteria based on which you can perform a search:

Add more parameters to the default filter criteria. Click Clear to reset the default filter criteria and add new filter parameters. Click Apply to save your changes. Click Save Search to save your filter preferences.

Specify Save Filter Name, choose inputs for Set As Default and Email Alerts, and then click Save Changes.

If Set As Default, the saved filter criteria appear as your default search criteria. Based on your Email Alerts settings, you will also receive email notifications when a new Potential Opportunity matching your preferred search criteria becomes available. Click Load Search to view saved search criteria and load one from the list.

NOTE

Only administrators can modify the company profile, including adjusting the default company filters for the Potential Opportunities search.

Quick Filters

The Quick Filters sidebar allows you to easily refine your search results based on specific criteria, eliminating the need for manual keyword entry or adjusting other search parameters. Quick filter criteria are not saved.

NOTE

The Quick Filter section displays filter options based on your current selections. The filter parameters and the count of available records are dynamically updated based on the currently chosen filters.

Illustration

The Potential Opportunities feature offers a streamlined filtering experience with pre-configured fields (including Agency, NAICS, and PSCs) tailored to your organization. This broad-based approach ensures that you see the best-matched opportunities across all subsidiaries of your organization.
You can refine your search by specifying specific offices, departments, Agencies, Contract Vehicles, or other criteria to align perfectly with your unique requirements.

NOTE

You must apply the following adjustments in addition to the pre-configured filters, to refine your search.

Example 1: You are a Business Development professional in an organization dedicated to empowering women entrepreneurs and are currently exploring fresh opportunities (worth $1 million or more) to advance their businesses.

Filter: In the Advanced Search and Alert section, add filters for Value and Set Aside fields as shown below, and click Apply.

The following results are displayed:

Example 2: You are a Contract Manager interested in Opportunities within the Contract Vehicle CIO-SP3 for small businesses and commodity solutions, that are currently under your purview.

Filter: In the Advanced Search and Alert section, include the highlighted filters for CIO-SP3 Contract Vehicles, as shown below and click Apply.

The following results are displayed:

You can use the Quick Filter functionality to further slice out results for your specific requirements.

Workflow Actions

Add to Spark and Follow: Add the Opportunity to Spark and further pursue it from the connected CRM.

Update / View Spark: Update the connected Spark in the CRM / View Spark record in the CRM.

Hide / Restore / Dismiss: If you consider that the Opportunity is irrelevant to your requirement, you can hide or restore a hidden Opportunity, or permanently remove (dismiss) it from your results.

Notify: If an Opportunity added to Sparks is updated, you are notified of the changes. This is important because your decision to pursue it was based on the original information.

Manage Liked / Hidden Opportunities: Manage liked or hidden Opportunities from the Filter Criteria pane.