35,000+ agencies tracked nationwide. 60,000+ opportunities collected. Complete SAM.gov federal coverage refreshed daily — plus the city, county and school-district work the national platforms quietly skip.
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The gap
Small contractors keep losing to a coverage problem, not a capability problem. The bid you could actually win was published — you just never saw it.
The incumbent bid platforms charge $10,000 to $100,000+ a year — and still skip most city, county and school-district solicitations, because crawling thousands of small agencies is unglamorous work that doesn't sell enterprise seats.
We watch what they skip. GovGopher digs through the small-agency bid boards, the county purchasing pages and the newspaper legal notices — the places a local contractor can genuinely win — and puts them next to the full federal feed for a price a small business can carry.
How it works
We crawl thousands of government sources every single day — SAM.gov, state portals, county and city procurement pages, school district bid boards, and the newspaper legal notices where small agencies are still legally required to publish.
Every solicitation gets a plain-English summary: who is buying, what they actually want, what it's worth, and when it's due. No procurement dialect, no 90-page PDF to skim before you know whether to care.
Move the ones worth chasing into the built-in pipeline. Track stages, deadlines, notes and outcomes in one place, so nothing quietly ages out while you're busy doing the work.
What's inside
Every open SAM.gov solicitation, refreshed daily — the full federal index, not a keyword slice of it.
Municipal, county and school-district solicitations from the small agencies the national platforms don't bother to crawl.
Statewide legal-notice feeds across 40+ states, where smaller governments are still required to advertise.
Each opportunity rewritten into a few honest sentences you can read in the truck between jobs.
Save the filters that match your work and get told when something new lands, instead of checking twenty portals by hand.
A capture pipeline built for bids: stages, owners, due dates, notes and win/loss outcomes, private to your company.
See what agencies actually bought, who won, and for how much — so your next number is based on evidence.
New to government contracting?
You do not need to already know what an RFP, an IFB or a NAICS code is. Government agencies buy roofing, mowing, plowing, IT support, food service, uniforms and hauling from ordinary local businesses every week — and most of those businesses started out knowing none of the jargon either.
Pricing
Free — no card, no expiry.
Everything you need to work federal opportunities.
Not a trial · upgrade only if you want the local data
$199/month list — founding rate
Add the local and state bids nobody else is watching.
30-day Pro trial free · no card required
$299/month list — founding rate
Work the pipeline, not the portals.
30-day Pro trial free · no card required
$499/month list — founding rate
For a team chasing more than one thing at a time.
30-day Pro trial free · no card required
Questions
Public sources only. Federal opportunities come from the SAM.gov Get Opportunities API. State and local bids come from state procurement portals, county and city websites, school-district bid boards, and the e-procurement platforms agencies publish on. Legal notices come from statewide public-notice sites. We link every opportunity back to its original source so you can always verify it yourself.
Federal coverage is refreshed daily — the complete SAM.gov set, not a sample. State, local and legal-notice sources are on their own cadences depending on how often each one publishes; high-volume sources are checked daily, quieter ones less often. Each opportunity shows how fresh it is.
Full federal search, refreshed daily — no card, no expiry, no seat count. If SAM.gov is all you need, the Free plan covers it and you pay us nothing. The paid plans add the local, state and legal-notice data, plus alerts, the pipeline and AI summaries.
No. Signup asks for an email and a password. Every paid tier includes a 30-day Pro trial with no card required, and we do not ask for payment details until you actively choose to subscribe. When you do, the card is entered on Stripe's hosted checkout — we never see or store it.
Nothing dramatic. After 30 days the account drops to the Free plan and keeps working — your account, your saved work and your pipeline stay exactly where they are. The paid features simply lock until you subscribe. We don't delete anything and we can't charge you, because we never took a card.
Honestly: federal is complete nationwide, and statewide legal-notice coverage spans 40+ states. City, county and school-district coverage is deepest in the Midwest — that's where we started and where the crawl is densest — and we add agencies every week. We will not pretend to have nationwide local parity; if your county isn't covered yet, tell us and it goes on the list.
Founding rates are launch pricing. When list pricing takes effect, existing customers get plenty of advance notice.
Yes, from your own settings — no email, no phone call, no retention script. Cancelling stops future renewals and your access continues to the end of the period you already paid for. We don't refund partial months. You can export your data at any time, including after you cancel.
No. GovGopher is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SAM.gov, GSA, or any government agency. We read the same public postings anyone can read, and we link every opportunity back to the issuing agency's own page so you can confirm it at the source.
GovGopher is built by VivianOps LLC — a Kansas City cybersecurity company. We build security software for a living, which is why this product has per-tenant data isolation, two-factor authentication, rate limiting and audit logging — not as an enterprise upsell, but because shipping it any other way would embarrass us.
Free federal search, a 30-day Pro trial on every paid plan, and no card at any point until you decide to subscribe.