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Learn how an agency buys, who wins its work, who makes the decisions, and when the work comes back.

Market Intelligence is more than a directory. It answers four capture questions: how an agency buys, who wins, who decides, and when work returns. CLEATUS builds the answers from federal award and subaward filings and agency forecasts. It also reads public meeting records and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) parts catalog. GovCon Copilot, the CLEATUS agent, reads the same data and does the research for you.

Open Market Intelligence in the sidebar, under Find. It has eight pages in four groups:

GroupPageWhat it answers
NAICS CodesHow contested an industry is, and the size standard that makes you small in it
GovernmentAgenciesHow an agency spends, which offices buy, who leads it, and what it plans next
GovernmentContracting OfficersWhich government people run the solicitations, and who works with them
GovernmentContractorsWhat a company wins, who it teams with, and how to reach it
AwardsVehiclesWho holds a contract vehicle, which orders flow through it, and how much ceiling is left
AwardsContractsWhat the government bought, from whom, and when each award ends
AwardsGrantsWhich organizations receive federal grants, and for what
PartsNSNsWhat a part is, which companies may supply it, and which past buys named it

NAICS is the North American Industry Classification System. An NSN is a National Stock Number. To browse vehicles and parts without an account, see Contract Vehicles Directory and NSN Lookup.

Or just ask CLEATUS

Give me the contracting officers and IT leaders at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Army Corps of Engineers

The agent lists the contracting officers who recently appeared on each agency's notices. It also lists each agency's data and information technology (IT) leaders.

What else the agent can do

For a page-by-page walkthrough, see Exploring Market Intelligence.

How an agency buys

Open Agencies and search by name or acronym. Click Federal or State & Local to change the market. State & Local covers state, local, and education (SLED) buyers. Filter by department, parent agency, or state, and sort by contract count.

The Overview tab of an agency shows how the agency spends:

  • AI Mission Profile: an artificial intelligence (AI) summary of what the agency does.
  • Key Metrics: total obligations, active contracts, awarded contracts, and contractors awarded.
  • Awards by Type Over Time: the spending trend for each type of award.
  • Top Contractors: the companies that win the most dollars, as a ranked table or a chart.
  • Sub-Agencies: the divisions of the agency that run their own buying.
  • Top Contracting Offices: the offices inside the agency, ranked by total award dollars.
  • Procurement by Industry and Set-Aside Programs: what the agency buys, and how much it sets aside for small businesses.

Use This Agency Only or With All Subagencies to change the scope. Use Last 12 months or All time to change the period. Every section changes with your choice.

Agencies are large, but an office does the buying. Use Top Contracting Offices to find the office that buys what you sell. Switch the card between Table, Chart, and Pie, and click an office to open its page.

The agency also has Opportunities (its open solicitations), Awarded, Vehicles, and Contractors Awarded tabs. Some tabs show only when the agency has data for them.

Who wins the work

Open Contractors to search companies by name, Unique Entity ID (UEI), or Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code. Filter by registered NAICS codes, awarded NAICS codes, set-aside, state, or entity structure. Click the star to save a company. Turn on Saved to see your shortlist. Click Export to download the list as a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

A contractor page shows the full federal footprint of the company:

  • Overview: award counts, awards by agency, type, size, and place of performance, and an AI Capability Profile.
  • Awards: every award. Filter by Prime Contracts, IDVs (indefinite delivery vehicles), Sub-contracts, Grants, or Sub-grants.
  • Corporate Family: the parent and its subsidiaries. The header shows Parent with the number of subsidiaries, or Subsidiary of with the name of the parent.
  • Vehicles Held: the contract vehicles that the company holds. Click a vehicle or its task order count to see the orders under it.
  • Registration: the System for Award Management (SAM) registration of the company.

Teaming and subcontract networks

CLEATUS reads federal subaward filings, so you see who actually works with whom, not who claims a capability:

  • Teaming Partners: the other subcontractors that worked under the same prime awards as the company.
  • Primes: the prime contractors that the company subcontracted under.
  • Subcontractors: the companies that the company hired as the prime.
  • Expressed Interest: the opportunities where a procurement portal lists the company as an interested vendor. Use it to see what a competitor chases next.

Each Primes and Subcontractors relationship shows the subawarded dollars and the number of filings. Expand it to read each filing.

Contacts and approved parts

  • Contacts: the points of contact that the company publishes on its federal schedules and contract vehicles. The sources are General Services Administration (GSA) eLibrary and Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP), a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract. An address that reaches a team shows Shared inbox.
  • Approved Supplier: the NSNs for which DLA approves the company as a source, and the parts where it is the only approved source.

Each tab shows only when the company has data for it. See Finding Teaming Partners and Teaming.

Who makes the decisions

The Leadership tab of an agency is an org chart of its senior leaders. The data comes from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Plum Book. The header counts filled seats, vacant seats, and acting officials. Click a card to open the branch below it, or search for a name, title, or location. Click a seat to see the appointment, pay plan, salary, location, previous holders, and the date the seat became vacant.

Open Contracting Officers to search government contacts by name, agency, or email. Filter by department or agency. Click the star to save a contact, then turn on Saved to see your saved contacts. The Contracting Officers tab of an agency lists the people who buy for that agency.

A contact page shows the agency chain of the contact. Last seen is the date CLEATUS last saw the contact on a notice. The page has these tabs:

  • Overview, with an AI Professional Profile.
  • Contracts: the solicitations and awards that name the contact.
  • Colleagues: the other contacts on the same solicitations. Sort by Most shared to find the people closest to the contact.
  • Agency Contractors: the companies that won awards from the agency of the contact.

When the work comes back

By the time a solicitation posts, another company has often shaped it for months. These pages show you the work before it posts:

  • Forecasts: the agency tab of planned procurements, including CLEATUS pre-forecasts.
  • Signals: the agency tab of public meetings, such as industry days, advisory committees, and hearings. Upcoming meetings come first. Click Show to see past meetings. Each meeting links to its agenda, minutes, video, or source when they exist.
  • Contracts: past federal contract awards. Choose IDV Awards, Prime Awards, or Sub Awards. Set the Recompete Window filter to Next 12 mo or Next 18 mo to find awards that end soon.
  • Grants: past federal grant awards. Choose Prime Grants or Sub Grants.

GovCon Copilot also searches state and local meeting minutes for buying signals. Ask, for example, "Search Cook County board meetings since September 1 for anything about audit services." The agent reads the minutes that have text and quotes the passages that it finds.

An award page starts with a note that the award is past work. The note shows the end date of the award. When CLEATUS can trace the original solicitation, click View the original solicitation. When it cannot, the note tells you why.

The award page also shows:

  • The Activity Timeline of obligated dollars over the life of the award.
  • Obligated vs Outlaid, the dollars committed and the dollars paid in each fiscal year, with a Funding & Timeline summary. An award that is almost fully paid is winding down and can come back as a recompete.
  • For a vehicle award, the Awards Under This IDV.
  • The History tab with every modification. Click Export to download it.
  • The Subcontractors tab with each company that the prime paid under the award.

Vehicles

Open Vehicles to search contract vehicles. Filter by vehicle family, type, status, agency, NAICS code, set-aside, ceiling, or dates. A vehicle page has these tabs:

  • Overview: Ceiling Utilization, Obligations by Year, and the Award Hierarchy of prime holders, task orders, and subcontracts.
  • Task Orders: every order under the vehicle.
  • Awardees: each company on the vehicle, with its share of the awards.
  • Subcontracts: who subcontracts under the vehicle, and for how much.

Parts for DIBBS

The Defense Logistics Agency Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS) is where DLA buys spare parts. Open NSNs to search the full DLA parts catalog by NSN, part number, or item name. Each part page shows:

  • What the part is, its Department of Defense standard price, and its unit of issue.
  • Approved Suppliers: the companies that DLA approves for the part.
  • Whether any capable supplier can quote: Openly competable, Approved source only, or Competition not stated.
  • DIBBS Opportunities and Awards and Pricing: the solicitations and awards that named the part.

See Researching a Part for DIBBS.

Industries

Open NAICS Codes and select a code. The Overview tab shows:

  • An AI Industry Description of the code.
  • The Small Business Size Standard: the revenue or employee cap from the Small Business Administration (SBA). You must be under this cap to qualify as small for work in the code.
  • Market metrics, such as total obligations, average award size, and Awards Expiring in the next 12 months.
  • Competition: how many companies usually bid in the code. The verdict is Usually Single-Bid, Fewer Bidders, Moderate Competition, or Crowded Field.

Competition comes from the bidder counts on past federal awards. Few bidders often means work that an incumbent holds, not an easy win. The Contracts and Contractors Awarded tabs list the work and the winners.

Ask GovCon Copilot on any page

The Ask CLEATUS panel opens by itself on agency, contractor, contracting officer, NAICS, vehicle, and NSN pages. The agent knows the record that you have open. You can also click Agent in the sidebar. Ask the agent to do the research for you, for example:

  • "Who are the decision makers at this agency?"
  • "Give me the contacts for this company."
  • "Which woman-owned subcontractors have worked at Fort Bragg, NC since fiscal year 2024?"
  • "Compare this contractor's sole-source and competed awards."
  • "Who are the approved sources for this NSN?"

See Using GovCon Copilot.

Plans

Every CLEATUS plan includes Market Intelligence. On DATA and higher plans, you search and open records with no daily limit, and you export lists. Each answer from GovCon Copilot uses AI credits from your plan. The pipeline and the customer relationship management (CRM) are part of the DATA + AI plan and higher plans. See Plans and pricing.

Free accounts:

A free account can run 15 Market Intelligence searches and open 5 records each day. It cannot export lists. The limits reset every day. When you reach a limit, the page shows when it resets.