SAM.gov does not search inside the attachments. That is where the requirements are.

A saved search on SAM.gov reads the notice title and the notice description. It does not read the PWS, the SOW, the RFI question list, or any of the other files stapled to the notice. If your capability is named only in the attachment, the notice never reaches you.

What it would do

• Watch new SAM.gov notices in the NAICS codes, agencies and set-aside types you pick.
• Download the attachments on each notice and pull the text out of them.
• Match your keyword list against that text as well as the title and description.
• Email you the matches, with the phrase and the sentence it sat in, so you can judge in a few seconds whether to open the notice.

Why this is worth doing

On 31 August 2026 I ran the check rather than assuming it. I took 25 recent Sources Sought and presolicitation notices in NAICS 541380, 541511, 541715 and 621511, pulled each notice's full description from the SAM API, downloaded the attachments, and compared a fixed list of 124 search terms against both.

Counting only substantive terms and dropping the boilerplate that shows up in every solicitation package, the last figure is 8 of 25. Both numbers are from the same run and both are in the raw output.

One example, checkable in a browser right now. Notice 4731e3cbbd7144fcb2ef2f16b362c54b, a Sources Sought from NAVSUP FLC SIGONELLA NAPLES OFFICE, is titled "Specialized hands-on laboratory training and proprietary molecular reagents" and its description is 27 characters long. The words bioinformatics, genomic and sequencing appear nowhere in that title or description. They appear in the attached statement of work, which asks for "wet-lab molecular library preparation and dry-lab bioinformatics pipeline setup" and for "two senior PhD-level genomic instructors". A firm with a saved search on the word bioinformatics would never have seen it. Open the notice on SAM.gov and check the attachment yourself.

What I am not going to pretend

• Not every attachment is readable. In that same run, 15 of the 45 files sampled were Word or Excel documents rather than PDFs, and one PDF was a scan with no text layer. Word support is straightforward to add; scans would need OCR and might not be worth it.
• Keyword matching produces false positives. In my own test run the term "SAFe" matched the ordinary word "safe" and "Airflow" matched HVAC airflow. Any real version of this needs a stop list and phrase handling, and it will still be imperfect.
• Nothing here is exclusive or scarce. HigherGov sells attachment search from $500 a year and GovWin costs considerably more. They are established products with features this would not have. The only argument for this one is that it would do the single thing that people keep asking for, at a price a two-person firm can sign off without a meeting.

What it would cost

The intent is $19 to $29 a month, depending on how many watchlists you need and whether you want daily or weekly email. That is a plan, not an offer. Nothing is for sale on this page and no card details are collected anywhere on it.

Join the waitlist

Two fields. If it gets built you get an email; if it does not, you get one email saying so. Your address is not sold, shared, or added to any other list.