Everything you need to know about HE Pursuit and how it helps government contractors make better bid decisions.
HE Pursuit is a bid/no-bid decision platform that helps small government contractors evaluate opportunities quickly and decide which ones are worth pursuing.
It replaces scattered notes and gut-feel decisions with a structured way to assess fit, eligibility, effort, and overall pursuit value.
Create a free account, build your company profile, and start screening live SAM.gov opportunities against it immediately.
You can see how the platform scores opportunities for you before upgrading to the full 5-phase pursuit workflow.
No. You can start by evaluating the opportunity itself.
If you want deeper analysis, you can upload documents later as part of the full qualification workflow.
These recommendations are designed to help you make faster, more consistent decisions.
HE Pursuit evaluates each opportunity against your business profile and provides a structured assessment of fit, eligibility, effort, and risk.
It then generates a clear recommendation—Go, Conditional Go, or No-Bid—to support your decision.
Each evaluation includes:
Most evaluations take just a few minutes.
The goal is to help you quickly determine whether an opportunity is worth deeper investment.
No.
HE Pursuit helps you decide which opportunities deserve real capture effort. It supports your judgment—it does not replace it.
HE Pursuit uses publicly available data from sources like SAM.gov.
No. We do not sell, rent, or share your data.
No. Your data is not used to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.
HE Pursuit provides structured analysis based on available data and your inputs.
It is designed to support better decisions, not to guarantee outcomes.
The recommendation reflects multiple factors including fit, eligibility, and effort.
It is meant to help you make more consistent, informed decisions—not replace your expertise.
The Free plan lets you screen live SAM.gov opportunities against your company profile and see how the platform works — including one full Phase 1 evaluation on a notice of your choice. The full 5-phase pursuit workflow starts with Starter.
You can upgrade to unlock the full pursuit workflow, deeper analysis, and higher usage limits.
No. You can start using the platform for free without a credit card.
Yes. You can cancel your subscription at any time.
Common questions about the bid/no-bid process in GovCon.
Most contractors evaluate opportunities based on fit, eligibility, strategic value, and the effort required to pursue.
A structured bid/no-bid process helps reduce wasted time and improves decision consistency.
A bid/no-bid process is a structured way to determine whether an opportunity is worth pursuing.
It typically considers factors like:
You evaluate fit by comparing the opportunity to your company's:
A strong fit increases the likelihood of a successful bid.
Key factors include:
Initial evaluation should take minutes, not hours.
A quick, structured review helps you filter out low-fit opportunities before investing significant time.
Yes. HE Pursuit works with data from SAM.gov, the official U.S. government contracting database.
You can evaluate SAM.gov opportunities against your company profile to determine which ones align with your capabilities, certifications, and set-aside status.
GovWin and GovTribe are primarily opportunity discovery and pipeline data tools — they help you find contracts.
HE Pursuit focuses on what comes next: making a disciplined bid/no-bid decision. It structures the qualification process — fit, eligibility, effort, and risk — so you can decide faster and focus proposal resources on realistic wins.
Capture management software helps government contractors track, evaluate, and pursue contract opportunities.
HE Pursuit focuses on the earliest stage of capture: qualifying whether an opportunity is worth pursuing at all. This ensures your team only invests capture resources in opportunities with a realistic path to award.
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