US Tender Radar
Deciding whether and how to bid on US government work. Open solicitations vendors can respond to right now, who won the last few awarded contracts, what an agency actually paid, and federal opportunities with their set-asides — 10 tools across 3 packs, one MCP connection. Looking for tenders outside the US? See Tender Radar (EU, UK, Ukraine and 13 international jurisdictions).
Included Packs
Live RFPs/RFQs/IFBs vendors can currently respond to, from 19 city & county procurement portals updated daily — PennBid (PA statewide), Utah U3P (statewide), Harris County TX, Charlotte NC, Dallas, Fort Worth, Cook County IL and more. We never delete a closed bid, so sold-history accumulates over time.
Who won last time, for how much, and what the agency actually paid — normalized across 8 state/county/city contract registries (TX, WA, VA statewide, King County WA, NYC, Chicago, Cook County IL, Austin) plus 7 state checkbook-spending feeds (NJ, VT, OR, MD, MO, CT, Dallas).
Active federal contract opportunities by keyword, NAICS code and small-business set-aside (SDVOSB, HUBZone, 8(a), WOSB), plus registered-contractor and exclusion-list lookups. Uses Pipeworx's shared SAM.gov key.
Common questions
What data sources are included in US Tender Radar?
Open bid solicitations from 19 city and county procurement portals (PennBid statewide PA, Utah U3P statewide, Harris County TX, Cook County IL, Charlotte NC and more), awarded state/local contracts from 8 jurisdictions (Texas, Washington, Virginia statewide, King County WA, NYC, Chicago, Cook County IL, Austin), state checkbook spending from 7 states (New Jersey, Vermont, Oregon, Maryland, Missouri, Connecticut, Dallas), and federal opportunities from SAM.gov. All keyless except SAM.gov, which runs on Pipeworx’s shared key.
Is this the same as the international Tender Radar?
No — they are separate verticals because the data shapes differ (US bids are per-portal HTML/JSON scrapes normalized into one schema; the international vertical reads OCDS/national APIs directly) and because US coverage reached 30+ jurisdictions on its own, past the point where folding it into the global vertical made sense. See Tender Radar for the EU, UK, Ukraine and 13 other national portals.
Does this cover awarded contracts or just open bids?
Both, plus what an agency actually paid. open_bids_search finds solicitations vendors can respond to right now; gov_contracts_search returns who won past awards and for how much; gov_spending_search returns the checkbook data — actual vendor payments, which can differ from the awarded contract value. For someone deciding whether and how to bid, who won last time and what the agency really pays is part of the decision.
Do I need a SAM.gov account for the federal tools?
No. sam_search_opportunities, sam_get_opportunity, sam_set_aside_opportunities, sam_entity_search and sam_search_exclusions all run on Pipeworx’s shared SAM.gov key — no registration required to search. You still need your own SAM.gov registration (a UEI) to actually submit a federal bid.
How current is the bid and contract data?
Open bids refresh daily from each portal. Awarded-contract and spending datasets follow each jurisdiction’s own publishing cadence (most weekly to monthly) — gov_contracts_jurisdictions reports the live record count per source so an agent can see how current a given jurisdiction is. Closed bids are retained rather than deleted, so open_bids_search with status:"closed" or "all" can also answer what a jurisdiction has bid out historically.