Alerts and tracking

In federal contracting, noticing first matters. An alert saves you from re-running the same search every Monday: you describe what you care about once, and FedScope emails you when a new matching record shows up.

What you can watch

• A market. Pick a type of work — the government classifies work using NAICS codes, the standard industry categories — and optionally narrow it by set-aside category and state. For example: 8(a) environmental remediation in the Southeast.
• A kind of opportunity, described in your own words. Type something like "cyber opportunities under a small-business set-aside closing in the next 45 days." FedScope turns that into filters, and shows you those filters so you can check and adjust them before you save.

Watches fire on opportunities.

You can also track companies — competitors, incumbents, possible partners. Tracking pins them to your dashboard so you can review them there. Tracked companies do not send email today.

Alerts you set up in a chat assistant and alerts you set up on the website are the same thing. One watch list, wherever you work. See AI connectors.

How the matching works

A watch is a saved filter, not a judgment call. When a new opportunity matches, FedScope emails you that notice — one email per matching record, sent as it is found, rather than a weekly roundup.

Matching runs on the same records that power search, so a watch is exactly as current as the data behind it. See where the data comes from.

For example: a capture lead watches two markets. A new solicitation appears and the email arrives that morning, with links to both the FedScope record and the official notice — in hand before the pipeline meeting instead of after it.

Things to keep in mind

• Records lag real life. A watch fires when something enters the public data, which can come well after the event itself. A quiet week means no new matching records — not that nothing happened.
• Filters are literal. A watch scoped too tightly will quietly skip records just outside it. If a market seems oddly silent, widen your filters and look again.

What it costs

Saving alerts, tracking markets and companies, and email delivery are paid features. On a free account you can still write a watch and see the filters FedScope derived from it, so you can judge whether it would catch what you want. One active watch is included when you create it through an AI connector.