Federal Bids
USFS, BLM, and DoD post fuels reduction, land clearing, and right-of-way vegetation contracts on SAM.gov, and the response window is measured in weeks. Name your states once and matching solicitations land on your dashboard each morning — title, contracting office, and the response deadline when the notice carries one.
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The problem
You made the account, searched once, got a wall of aircraft parts and janitorial notices, and closed the tab. Then the 240-acre fuels reduction job one district over closed for responses eleven days ago — federal work doesn't get missed by a day, it gets missed by the whole window.
Without Mastiff
With Mastiff
How it works
Settings → Federal Bid Alerts takes one comma-separated line: TX, OK. Codes or full names both work, and anything Mastiff doesn't recognize as a state is dropped when you save — the box always shows exactly what the matcher will use.
Blank means the trade's three codes: 115310 forestry support for fuels reduction and mastication, 238910 site preparation for clearing and grubbing, and 561730 landscaping for right-of-way vegetation. Enter your own six-digit codes and the match runs on those instead.
Once a day Mastiff pulls the last three days of postings under each code, so one missed day never drops a notice. What comes back is matched on your states, the codes, and the four bid and pre-bid notice types.
The row reads Federal bid: Fuels Reduction - Mastication, 240 Acres, with the contracting office as SAM wrote it and the deadline beside it. The link leaves the app for SAM.gov — the response happens there, and the judgment stays yours.
Capabilities
The notice's place of performance has to sit in a state you named. One with no state on it at all is dropped, while a nationwide contract that does name your state still comes through — the filter is where the work happens, not how big the award is.
115310, 238910, and 561730 cover fuels reduction, clearing and grubbing, and right-of-way vegetation — what this work actually posts under. The honest limit: a job posted under a code nobody listed stays invisible, because nothing reads the words in the notice.
Four notice types get through: Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Presolicitation, and Sources Sought. Award notices and surplus sales are records of something already decided, not work you can go get. A sources-sought without a deadline still shows — many never carry one, and the set-aside takes its place on the row when SAM names it.
The response date comes straight off the notice with no time-zone math, so a deadline late on the twelfth never shows as the thirteenth. Notices already past their date are dropped at the daily check — though a row from last week stays in the feed, so trust the date on it.
The row carries no dollar figure, because the feed doesn't know what the work is worth. It makes no eligibility call either — it doesn't know your UEI, your CAGE code, or what you're certified for. It reports that the posting exists; whether to chase it is your call.
At most five new federal rows per shop per day, and a notice you've already seen stays gone for thirty days. More than five matches in a morning and the extras are dropped, not queued — the cap keeps the feed a read, and the big contracts sit on SAM.gov for weeks either way.
FAQ
Yes. It stays dormant until you enter at least one state under Settings → Federal Bid Alerts. With the box blank, nothing is fetched for your shop at all — there's no default state, because guessing where you'd haul a machine isn't software's call.
No. The only output is a row in Recent Activity on your dashboard — no email, no text, no push. That's why the deadline rides on the row itself: one glance tells you whether there's a decision to make today.
No. It doesn't know whether you hold a UEI, a CAGE code, an active SAM registration, or a set-aside certification. It shows that the posting exists and links to it; eligibility and the entire response happen on SAM.gov.
Within about a day of SAM.gov publishing it — the check runs daily and reaches back three days, so a notice never falls between runs. Federal response windows run weeks, not hours; the risk was never speed, it was never seeing the posting at all.
Name your states once and the morning feed carries new matching solicitations — up to five a day, each linking straight to SAM.gov.
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