Find the tender, and know fast whether you can bid it
Every open public tender in one list, each notice with everything the buyer published, a quick screen against your firm, and an email when something moves. All of it on the free account — paid plans do the same work for you, automatically.
One list of every open tender: plain titles, the type of work, and filters for what each notice actually says.
- Every open tender, one listSAM.gov federal notices alongside state and city boards, with every filter and no result cap. On a paid plan, the tenders the radar picked for your firm come first.
- Filter by the kind of workOffra sorts every notice into 35 plain categories — roofing, janitorial, IT services and more — including the city and state notices that publish no NAICS code at all. Hide federal spare-parts buys in one click.
- Filter by what the notice saysKeep or leave out notices that state a bond, a security clearance, a site visit or an incumbent contract, and filter by the value the notice itself publishes — never an estimate.
- Find the one you heard aboutSearch by keyword, agency or solicitation number — even part of one — or paste a SAM.gov link and the notice opens. Coded titles are rewritten in plain English, with the official one kept underneath.
Everything the buyer published, on one page
Open any notice and read it the way you would brief your team: what it is in plain English, who to ask, the documents and the dates — without leaving for sam.gov.
Free account · the buyer's award record is BusinessA tender file: the plain-English summary, the calendar, the contracting officer and every attachment.
- In plain EnglishA short summary of what the buyer wants, and what the notice asks of you — a bond, a clearance, a site visit, a licence — each backed by the notice's own words. The official notice stays the authority.
- Who to askThe contracting officer named on the notice, with the email and phone they published — so your first question can go out today.
- Every attachment, by nameThe solicitation's documents in one list, SAM.gov files under their real names — the statement of work, the wage determination, the pricing sheet.
- The dates, and what changedQuestions due, the pre-bid meeting (flagged when it is mandatory) and bids due on one timeline you can add to Outlook, Google or Apple Calendar. A Changes tab records every extension and amendment Offra spots.
Can you bid it? Know before you open the package
Every notice opens on a short sort of its facts against your company profile: what rules you out, what to check first, and what is in your favour.
Free account · Offra's own go/no-go is BusinessThe quick screen: what the notice rules out, what to check, and your size under its NAICS standard.
- Can't bid, check first, in your favourOnly facts the notice published can rule you out — it has closed, a mandatory pre-bid meeting was already held, or it is not a solicitation yet. Anything about your own firm is something to check, never a verdict.
- Small under this code?Enter your average receipts or headcount once, and every small-business set-aside tells you where you stand: "Small under this code: $8.4M against a $22M standard." sam.gov shows the standard; it never says whether you are under it.
- Your size under every codeYour company profile lists each of your NAICS codes as small, over the standard, or missing a figure — a check against the SBA table, not a certification.
- Only the notices open to your firmOne button hides set-asides for programs you don't hold — 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB — and keeps every notice that has no set-aside at all.
The checklist we run on every tender
Eighteen questions in six groups — can we bid, are we eligible, can we deliver, can we meet the terms, can we win, what is our history here. Fill it in yourself free, or let Business fill it for you.
Fill it in yourself free · Business fills it for youThe bid/no-bid checklist: pre-filled from the notice, answered by your team, decided by you.
- Pre-filled from the noticeWhether it is open, a mandatory pre-bid already held, the set-aside against your certifications, your size, codes and states — what the notice settles is answered before you start.
- Your team answers the restYes, No, Not sure or N/A on each question. There is no score and no computed verdict: the call — we'll bid, or we'll pass and why — is yours.
- It follows the tender into the bid fileStart a bid file from the notice and the checklist your team filled comes with it, on the file's Decision tab.
- On Business, Offra fills it inFrom the tender package and the award record: the bid bond, disqualifying requirements, a mandatory site visit, who has been winning this buyer's work, your own wins there. Anything your team answers wins.
Hear about the tender — and every change to it
Saved searches email you new matches, watched notices email you when they change, and a reminder lands the morning before a deadline. Set them by hand on the free account; paid plans set them for every bid file.
Free by hand · automatic on paid plansAlerts: a saved-search digest, a watched notice that changed, and a reminder before bids are due.
- Saved searches, by emailSave a filtered view and new matching notices arrive as a digest — three searches, weekly, on the free account; twenty, daily or weekly, on paid plans. Each notice is announced once.
- Watch any notice for changesAn email when a deadline moves, the notice is amended or attachments are posted — and, on SAM.gov, when a file is swapped in place, like a wage determination replaced by its next revision. Ten watches free, 200 on paid plans, where every saved notice is watched for you.
- Reminders before a deadlinePick bids due, questions due or the pre-bid meeting, and 7, 3 or 1 day before. The reminder reads the notice on the day, so an extension moves it too.
- Automatic on every bid fileOn a paid plan, every open bid file reminds its lead and everyone holding one of its tasks of its own dates — site visits included — on offsets you set once for the workspace.
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