You registered on SAM.gov. Maybe you got certified. Maybe you even bid — and lost to an incumbent you never had a chance against, or watched a “perfect” RFP eat three weekends before it went to someone else. The problem was never your work. It was picking pursuits without a screen. HE Pursuit scores every SAM.gov notice against your actual business — NAICS, certifications, size, geography — and tells you: pursue it, sub it, or skip it.
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Two thousand new federal notices post every day. Your business fits a handful. HE Pursuit screens every notice against your NAICS codes, certifications, geography, and capacity — and tells you which ones deserve a look, with the reasoning shown.
The most expensive mistake in small-business GovCon isn't losing a bid — it's spending weeks on one that was never winnable. A structured bid/no-bid read before you commit protects the hours that keep your business running.
Every analyzed notice gets a recommended route: prime it, or pursue it as a sub. Notices flagged as primeable at your size — right dollar range, right set-aside, requirements you already meet — are how subcontractors become primes without betting the company.
8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone — a set-aside certification creates eligibility, not awards, and 8(a) is a nine-year program. HE Pursuit surfaces the set-aside notices your certification actually unlocks, so the eligibility gets used instead of framed.
When you skip an opportunity, you should know why — and when you commit, your team should see the same reasoning. Every score comes with the evidence behind it: what fits, what to watch, what disqualifies.
You don't have a BD department. HE Pursuit does the finding, screening, and scoring a BD hire would start with — at a small-business monthly price. Start free; upgrade when the pipeline earns it.
Most small contractors start on SAM.gov, which lists federal contract opportunities but ranks none of them for your business. The practical workflow is: define your NAICS codes, certifications, and capacity once, then screen every incoming notice against that profile. HE Pursuit automates that screening — each SAM.gov notice gets a fit score and a Go, Conditional Go, or No-Bid read against your actual profile, so you spend proposal hours only on winnable work.
A certification creates eligibility, not awards — and 8(a) in particular is a nine-year program, so every year without set-aside pursuits is spent runway. The first step is visibility: a feed of notices filtered to your set-aside and NAICS codes, scored for fit. HE Pursuit flags set-aside matches against your certifications automatically, so the opportunities your certification unlocks stop hiding in the feed.
Yes — and the transition is mostly about picking the right first prime bid, not building new infrastructure. Every notice HE Pursuit analyzes includes a recommended route: prime it, or pursue it as a subcontractor. Notices flagged as primeable at your size — right dollar range, right set-aside, requirements you already meet — are where sub-to-prime transitions actually start.
A competitive federal proposal routinely consumes days to weeks of working time, depending on scope. That is exactly why the bid/no-bid decision matters more than the writing: a disciplined no-bid saves the entire cost of a doomed pursuit. Screening with HE Pursuit takes minutes per notice, so the expensive hours only start after a defensible Go.
The SAM.gov notice analyzer is free and requires no account. The Free plan adds search and bookmarks with no credit card. Paid plans ($99–$199/month) add the full pursuit workflow — and through November 30, two months of Starter or Pro are free, applied automatically at checkout.