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What you can ask for / No. 08

Find tenders in your own words

Public procurement notices you could bid on, with the buyer, the deadline, and the lots.

Public money is published in public, just not conveniently. SpecStream reads procurement notices for the buyer, the deadline, the value, and the lots, so you can decide whether to bid before you’ve opened 40 PDFs.

Requests to start from

Three ways to ask. Each one opens in the workspace, read into parts you can check and change.

  1. A1

    Open tenders on SAM.gov for translation services with a deadline after November 1. Include the buyer and the estimated value.

    Open it in the workspace
  2. A2

    Tenders for school catering in Spain with a deadline in the next 30 days. Include the buyer and the lots.

    Open it in the workspace
  3. A3

    Opportunities on SAM.gov set aside for small businesses in IT support. Include the NAICS code and deadline.

    Open it in the workspace

How it reads

Take A1. Before the quote, SpecStream turns it into parts you can check and change. Edit one and the request saves as a new saved version. Anything it can’t support stays visible instead of being quietly dropped.

A1Open tenders on SAM.gov for translation services with a deadline after November 1. Include the buyer and the estimated value.

Open tenders

  • FromSAM.gov
  • AboutTranslation services
  • Only ifDeadline after November 1
  • Bring backBuyer
  • Bring backEstimated value

Up to 25 results, each one fitting the one thing you asked forReady.

Details you can ask for

  • Buyer
  • Deadline
  • Value
  • Currency
  • CPV codes
  • NAICS
  • Set-aside
  • Lots
  • Place of performance
  • Documents
  • How to submit

Use them as conditions, ask for them back, or both; the field picker in the workspace shows which work where. Mark a detail required and a result needs evidence for it before it counts. Optional details can come back empty without sinking the record.

Where it looks

Sampled fromSpecStream · No. 08

Sources
SAM.gov · Open Contracting (OCDS) publishers · Published procurement notices

SpecStream picks the sources that fit each request and reads them live. Every fact keeps its source and the time it was read. Where SpecStream looks · How evidence works

From your agent or your code

Ask for the same list from your agent or your code. Your agent sees the price before it runs, then gets every match with the details you asked for. It works within your spending limit. Connect your agent with MCP.

Use SpecStream to find this:
Open tenders on SAM.gov for translation services with a deadline after
November 1. Include the buyer and the estimated value.
Show me how you read it and the price before you run anything.

What it costs

You pay for the results that match, at the rate the quote shows.

  • Standard, $0.10 a match: up to 5 facts to check or return, with no related list.
  • Expanded, $0.30 a match: up to 15 facts, plus one related list, such as a company’s jobs or a creator’s posts. 10 related records a result are included, then 10¢ for each further 10.
  • Deep, $1 a match: anything beyond Expanded.
  • A person’s email, +$0.10; a phone, +$0.25 on top of the rate, when the request asks for one. A likely email counts and says likely. Rows without it pay their rate alone.
  • Your own list, $0.05 a row checked. A row that matches pays its rate instead.

New accounts get $10 of work free to start, no card. See pricing

Then what?

Deadlines move. Recheck open tenders every Monday. Or export them to CSV, Excel, JSON, or HTML, share a snapshot with an expiry date, and pick the work up later from wherever you left it.

For this job: Grants and tenders

Keep digging

PapersGrants

Or flip through the whole crate and ask for any of them the same way.

Go find something