Awards and won contracts
Awards answers who wins this work: past federal contract awards in the codes you work in — who won, for how much, and against how many bidders — plus a market view, any competitor's award record, and your own company's record of what it has won.
TL;DR — Open Understand → Awards. Search awards opens on your profile's codes; The market charts who buys, who wins, what is bought and where; Competitor opens any company's record; What we have won is your company's own list, where a Proposal Manager or Manager marks an award We won this.
Where the data comes from
Award records come from USAspending.gov, refreshed hourly. Each screen shows the version and date of the data it read. See Where the data comes from.
Search awards
When your profile has NAICS target codes, the search opens on them — Showing your profile's codes. Clear the filter to search everything.
| Field | What it does | Accepted values / default |
|---|---|---|
| Search award titles | Words in the award title, with the same AND / OR / NOT syntax as Discovery. | cloud AND security |
| Agency, NAICS code, Set-aside, Contract type, State | Narrow the market. | |
| UEI | One company's awards. | The exact 12-character identifier. |
| Awarded from / to | Date range. | The from date cannot be after the to date. |
| Smallest / Largest award | Value range. | |
| Competition | Any number of bidders, Competed (2 or more), or Sole bidder only. |
Each row shows the award, who won it, the agency, amount, date, contract type, set-aside, place and the number of bidders.
What this market looks like summarises the awards shown — not the whole market, so it answers the question you asked: number of awards, total and average value, the typical (median) number of bidders, the most bidders seen, and the share that went to one bidder. Awards that do not record an amount or a bidder count are left out of those figures, and the panel says how many. It is a description of what happened, not a prediction: nothing here estimates your chance of winning.
The market
Four charts over the same filters — Who is buying, Who is winning it, What is being bought and Where the work is — each showing the twelve largest. Who is winning it is ranked by value rather than by number of awards, with each company's share.
How competitive this market is becoming plots, by quarter, the share of awards that drew only one bidder. A rising line means fewer companies are competing — an opening, or a market closing around an incumbent.
Competitor
Open any company from the awards or the market to see its public record: contracts won, total value, how often it won unopposed, who buys from them, what they sell, where they work, and their recent contracts. It is based on their most recent 500 contracts.
Where they look strong lists patterns in that record — a high share of awards from one agency, a specialisation in one code, a repeat customer, sole-source success, sustained activity across years. It is an interpretation of public awards, worked out on a stated date, not a statement of fact; with too few awards it says nothing.
What your own team knows about a competitor — threat, strengths, where they are beatable — lives on Company Essentials → Competition.
What we have won
Your company's own record of awards it has won, kept separate from the public data.
Find the award
Search for it on Search awards.
Choose We won this
Record this as one of ours: We were the prime contractor, subcontractor or joint venture partner; Won under the name if it was not your own name; and notes.
Confirm it is you
Record it asks for a fresh confirmation — your passkey or authenticator — because this is the record your company reports.
Our record sums the contracts won, their total value, and how many were as prime, subcontractor or joint venture. Contracts whose value the government did not publish are counted but left out of the total. Edit (Correct this claim) and Not ours after all ask for the same confirmation as recording one — un-recording a win moves the same numbers.
- Who can record, edit or release a claim: Proposal Managers, Managers and Capture Administrators. Everyone can read the list.
- A claim is a statement of fact about your company, so it is deliberately narrower than editing a pursuit.
- Match scores and Analytics read your pipeline (pursuits moved to Won), not this list. Keep both in step.
Common gotchas
- "No awards match." Widen the dates, drop a filter, or try a different code. The search opens on your profile's codes.
- "Public award data is still being prepared." The shared data is loading for your workspace. Try again shortly.
- "I can't mark an award as ours." Recording needs the Proposal Manager or Manager role, and a fresh confirmation.
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