Search for opportunities based on keywords, NAICS codes, and PSC codes. These opportunities and contacts come from Federal, state, and local governments across the country. However, you can narrow your search based on geographic location to filter your results and find more relevant information. 

95% of all available contracts are pre-existing contracts that will come up for renewal or recompete. Select Pro allows you to search all previously awarded contracts to determine if they’re open for recompete prior to expiration. We can find important information on who was involved in each contract (CO, agency, prime), and even view award id’s, contractor transition unique key, contractor description, awarding agency, state, NAICS, PSC, award amount, start date and end date. 

You may often hear the terms “Prime Vendor”, “Top Prime” or “Prime Contractor” in relation to government contracts, but what does that mean? Simply put, a “Prime” is the main company chosen to perform the work or provide the product/service required in a government contract. A Subcontractor is a helper who works under the Prime to finish the job. Subcontractors are normally smaller companies that are awarded portions of the contract by the Prime. 

Generally, a prime contractor is a larger business that has a relationship with the government. Common names like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI, IBM, and Leidos are examples of large prime contractors. These are companies that have a long-standing relationship with the government and are occasionally given preferential treatment by contracts. 

To help connect small businesses with contracting officers, Federal Departments and Agencies came up with the Office of Small Disadvantage Business Utilization (OSDBU). OSDBU representatives provide guidance to federal agencies on how to better utilize small businesses. Through outreach to the business community and partnerships with the Department the OSDBU helps small businesses build strategies to become successful contractors.  

Select Pro has links to information for the majority of agencies and their contacts for you to use. Simply input your desired department or agency into the Search field. From there you will see a list of important links directly from the Agency. Click on the link next to the word SADBU, and you’ll be taken directly to that agency’s OSDBU website. 

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is an official legal request of the government to release any of their records into your hands. FOIAs work for any federal agency and allow citizens to have greater access to and transparency from the government. For our purposes FOIAs allow businesses to examine past contracts to gain greater insight into the previous contract’s requirements and what has changed, who the incumbent is and what services they provided (unless they are listed as proprietary/redacted), as well as what the terms of the original agreement were. For any companies who want to do in-depth research on the opportunities they intend to bid on FOIA’s are a necessary tool. 

Luckily for us, submitting a FOIA is as easy as searching for the Agency’s Name + FOIA in any standard web browser. From there they will either have an official point of contact who you can email a FOIA to or a portal where vendors can submit their requests. 

Here are some links to popular Agency’s FOIA pages to help you get started: 

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