Get SAM and certifications done
Free, Basic, and Pro
You cannot appear on a bid until SAM.gov says the registration is active. The roadmap puts that registration, then the optional certifications, in order. Each step names the official site. FedM8 does not file the registration for you.
Open the roadmap
See the market without paying
Free, Basic, and Pro
Before you pay for search, Charts shows where federal dollars went: agencies and industries, from USAspending. That source lists who was paid. It does not list who lost a bid.
Open Charts
Find and filter live opportunities
Basic and Pro
SAM.gov posts more notices than a small shop can read. Search keeps the ones that match what you sell, where you work, and your set-aside. A set-aside is a competition reserved for a class of small businesses. Only they may bid.
Open Search
Not miss deadlines and amendments
Basic and Pro
Save a search and Inbox tells you when a new match lands, or when a notice you watch changes its due date, title, or set-aside. That change is an amendment. The pipeline calendar puts the due dates where you will see them.
Open Inbox · Open the pipeline
Walk a first bid with a checklist
Basic and Pro
The first packet is long. Bid Coach is a short checklist that ends in a submission you can send. The pipeline is the list of notices you are watching, pursuing, or have already sent.
Open Bid Coach · Open the pipeline
See incumbents and prior prices
Pro
An incumbent is the company that holds the work now. Award Intel shows who won similar work and what was paid, including a price band: the low, middle, and high of those awards. USAspending does not publish the losing bids.
Open Award Intel
Hunt recompetes
Pro
A recompete is a contract that is ending and may be bid again. Coming up lists shop-sized contracts in your industry codes that end soon, with open recompetes first.
Open Coming up
Cut proposal busywork
Pro
A shall is a line the government requires. Miss one and the bid can be set aside. The requirements list pulls those lines into a checklist before anyone writes the essay. Proposal Assist keeps that checklist next to your past-performance facts. Those facts are yours. The tool does not invent them.
Open the requirements list
Notice review that cites or stays blank
Pro, first year
A notice review reads one solicitation. Each sentence cites a line from that solicitation, or the sentence stays blank. FedM8 AI works the same way. The first year of Pro includes 250 credits a month. Spending those credits is paused. Credits already on the account stay.
Read how credits work · Open FedM8 AI
Veteran Directory
Listing is free. Browsing partners is Pro.
You can list your own shop so other veteran firms can find you. You choose which fields are public. Browsing other firms is a Pro tool. This is other shops, not a marketplace of prime contractors.
Open the Directory
Academy lessons and guides
Free, Basic, and Pro
Guides are short how-tos for SAM, search, and a first bid. Academy lessons go further on the same subjects. Both sit next to the tools.
Open Guides · Open Academy
Agency forecasts
Basic and Pro
A forecast is an agency's buying plan, published before the notice hits SAM.gov. It is a planning signal, not a request for proposal. Forecasts lets you scan the agencies in your lane.
Open Forecasts