How ContractBeam works
ContractBeam is a free, open registry of U.S. government business opportunities. It exists so a small company can find the contracts, grants, and awards relevant to them in one search — instead of monitoring a dozen separate federal, state, and local procurement portals.
Where the data comes from
A scheduled ingestion pipeline pulls listings from official public sources and normalizes every record into one consistent shape so you can search across them together:
- SAM.gov ↗
Open federal contract solicitations (the System for Award Management). The canonical source for active RFPs.
- Grants.gov ↗
Federal grant and funding opportunities across every grant-making agency.
- USASpending.gov ↗
Recently-awarded federal contracts — used as market intelligence to see who is winning what, and at what value.
Built to grow to state & local
The ingestion layer is plugin-based: each data source is a single self-contained module that returns records in the common format. Adding a new source — a state procurement portal, a county bid board, a city RFP page — is a matter of dropping in one more plugin. State and local coverage is fragmented across thousands of small portals; this architecture lets that coverage expand source by source without touching the rest of the app.
How to use it
- Search by keyword, or browse by industry, agency, set-aside program, or location.
- Filter to active opportunities and sort by closing date so you never miss a deadline.
- Open a listing and follow the link to the official portal — every record keeps its solicitation number and source so you bid through the proper channel.
An honest disclaimer
ContractBeam aggregates public government data and is not affiliated with any agency. Data can lag the official record, and details change. Always verify scope, eligibility, and deadlines on the official source before you commit time or money to a bid.
Currently indexing 413 opportunities from 3 sources.