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Where to find federal contracts

Two free official sites hold the record: SAM.gov for opportunities and USAspending for awards. Paid tools search both, add state and local bids and track your pipeline. Abierto sits in between, with the federal record joined up and free to read, and paid tracking on the way. It holds 643,574 opportunities posted since January 1, 2024, 7,536 of them open today, and 14,254,500 contract awards.

At a glance

Prices are the ones each vendor publishes, checked . Confirm on their sites before you buy.

ToolBest forPriceOpportunitiesAwardsState and local
AbiertoReading and tracking federal opportunities and awardsFree to read; paid plans from $39 a monthYes, every SAM.gov notice since January 2024Yes, joined to their solicitationsNo
SAM.govOfficial notices, entity registration, respondingFreeYes, the sourceSeparate search (Contract Data)No
USAspending.govOfficial spending and award recordsFreeNoYes, the sourceNo
HigherGovFederal and SLED search, alerts, pipeline$500 or $2,500 a year; Enterprise by quoteYesYesYes
GovTribeFederal search, pipeline, AI, MCP; SLED on Plus plans$1,500 to $6,000 a year; Scale by quoteYesYesOn Plus plans
GovWin IQAnalyst forecasts and market intelligenceNot publishedYes, and forecasts before postingYesYes

Side by side

  • Abierto vs SAM.gov

    SAM.gov is the official system: you register your business there and most solicitations are answered there.

  • Abierto vs USAspending.gov

    USAspending.gov is the official record of federal spending, contracts included, and it is where Abierto's award data comes from.

  • Abierto vs HigherGov

    HigherGov is a paid search and pipeline tool for federal and state and local contracts, billed yearly from $500.

  • Abierto vs GovTribe

    GovTribe is a paid federal contracting platform billed yearly from $1,500 for one seat, with state and local coverage on its "Plus" plans.

  • Abierto vs GovWin IQ

    GovWin IQ is Deltek's market intelligence service, known for analyst-written forecasts of opportunities before they are posted, and it covers federal, state and local government.