Straight answers to fair questions.

Today: federal opportunities nationwide via SAM.gov, plus a curated pipeline of agency and private RFP sources. State procurement portals and platform aggregators (the systems that host thousands of local agencies) are being added weekly. The long tail of city, county, school district, and special district websites is on the roadmap. We publish coverage honestly: if a source is not live yet, we say so.

GovWin IQ is an enterprise intelligence platform: deep federal and state data, analyst research, and pricing to match, typically several hundred dollars per month and up. DemandStar is an agency network: it covers the state and local agencies that post through it, and it skips federal entirely. RFPhound takes a third approach: scrape everything we can reach daily, normalize it, and add AI summaries and fit scores, at a price closer to a software subscription than an enterprise contract. We are newer and our local coverage is still growing, and we say that plainly.

Yes. Federal opportunities carry NAICS codes natively and you can filter on them directly. For state, local, and private postings that do not include a NAICS code, our AI classifier assigns categories so the same filters keep working across every source.

Sources are scanned daily, and your digest arrives by 9am in your time zone. Most new postings appear in your feed within 24 hours of going live at the source. We also re-scan open opportunities to catch amendments and deadline extensions, which generate their own alerts.

Every matched RFP gets a plain-English summary (what the buyer wants, key dates, estimated value when stated) so you can triage in seconds instead of opening a 40-page PDF. Fit scores compare each opportunity against your profile: your services, geography, and typical contract size. A high score means it deserves a real look this morning.

Both. Alongside government sources we maintain a curated pipeline of agency-of-record searches and private-sector RFPs, the kind that creative, marketing, and consulting firms compete for. That mix is part of why agencies use us instead of a purely government-focused tool.

One plan, two ways to pay: $10 per month, or a $199 one-time lifetime license. Both unlock the full data feed: all categories, all states plus complete federal coverage, saved searches, AI summaries and fit scores, and amendment alerts. There is no free trial. The monthly plan is billed immediately and cancels any time; the lifetime license is a single payment and never renews.

Yes. The monthly plan is month to month with no long-term contract, and you can cancel in one click from your dashboard; you keep access through the period you already paid for. The lifetime license is a one-time payment, so there is nothing to cancel: access is yours permanently.

It depends on your work. If federal opportunities or private RFPs matter to you, yes, that coverage is live today. If you only bid on one state's local contracts, check our coverage list first, or sign up for early access and we will email you when your state's sources come online. We would rather you subscribe when the feed is genuinely useful to you.

No. RFPhound is the finding layer: discovery, triage, and deadlines. You write and submit your own responses. Many subscribers pair us with a proposal tool or their existing BD process; our job is to make sure nothing relevant slips past you.