A Bid Intelligence Report is a capture dossier for one federal recompete. It gathers what the public record shows about the contract, the buying agency, the incumbent and the competitive field, so you can make a better-informed go or no-go call.
What a bid intelligence report is
Each report covers one federal contract that may be competed again. It is built entirely from public federal records:
- USAspending, for contract awards and subawards.
- SAM.gov, for contract opportunity notices and points of contact.
- GAO, for bid protest decisions.
- GSA CALC+, for published hourly labor rates.
- The federal IT Dashboard, for Exhibit 53 IT investments, and the DHS acquisition forecast.
Nothing in the report comes from your systems. The report does not ask for your capture plan, your pricing or any of your files. Because of that, it cannot see your past performance, your price, your team or your relationships, and nothing in it is a promise about a future award. An approaching end date is treated as a possible recompete, never a confirmed one.
What the report contains
The public page lists these parts:
- Incumbent scorecard: who holds the contract today, how long they have held it, what it is worth, and its competition, options and vehicle history.
- Buying agency profile: how the agency spends in this NAICS code, including competition rates, sole-source share and seasonal award patterns, with SAM.gov points of contact where the record names them.
- Competitor cards: other vendors active in this space, ranked by dollars won and award count.
- Pipeline signals: other awards expiring soon at this agency in this NAICS code, plus open forecasts in the same code.
- Pricing benchmark: award values for comparable contracts.
- Labor rate table: GSA CALC+ hourly rates by role for this type of work.
- Protest risk: how often this agency's awards are protested, and how often protests are sustained.
- Teaming map: known subcontractors under the incumbent, and other vendors active at the same agency and NAICS code.
- Decision quality flags: what is confirmed from public data and what you still need to verify before bidding.
- Executive brief: a one-page synthesis for leadership's go or no-go call.
- Win themes: draft positioning angles across technical, cost, schedule and compliance risk.
- Risk register: the risks this recompete carries, each with a mitigation.
A part appears only when the public record supports it. When data is thin, the part is left out rather than guessed at, so two reports can have different sections. Every section opens with what it tells you and what to do with it, and a glossary at the end explains the terms. Reading a Bid Intelligence Report walks through each section.
Getting a report
Reports are requested from the Bid Intelligence Report page. The page lists the price as $1,500 per report and offers a sample report you can open to see a finished example.
Related guides
- Reading a Bid Intelligence Report: Read each section of a Bid Intelligence Report, understand what its numbers do and do not mean, and tell missing data from a failed section.
- The recompete calendar: find contracts ending in the next 90 days to 18 months.
- Award, vendor and program pages: the public award pages and their market context.