Find what would disqualify your bid
before you staff it.
Upload a federal solicitation or paste its SAM.gov link. BidSmith returns the compliance matrix, the FAR/DFARS clauses that disqualify outright, and a bid/no-bid you can defend in a review — in about 90 seconds.
A free preview returns 3 compliance requirements — Section L and M first — plus the bid/no-bid verdict, a few times a month. Sign-in required, no card. The complete matrix needs a plan.
The second decision
Deciding which programs to chase happens quarters ahead of a solicitation, and tools like GovWin IQ and Sweetspot serve it well. This is the decision after that one: a solicitation is open, the deadline is real, and someone has to say whether it is winnable and what would throw the bid out.
The expensive failure is not a bid you lose on score. It is the one you staffed for weeks before anyone noticed the CMMC level, or the set-aside you do not qualify for.
What it reads out of the document
What disqualifies you outright
Clearances, CMMC level, set-aside eligibility, bonding, key personnel, page limits. The clauses that end a bid before anyone reads the writing.
Where Section L fights Section M
The instructions you must follow and the criteria you are scored on do not always agree. You can comply exactly and still lose points. Nothing else on the market flags this.
Every requirement, with its excerpt
Tagged by section — L, M, C, PWS, CDRL — each carrying the verbatim text it came from, so you can check the extraction against the RFP instead of trusting it.
How it works
Paste a solicitation
A SAM.gov URL or the PDF. No configuration, no onboarding call.
It reads the document
Requirements extracted by section, FAR/DFARS clauses classified, conflicts flagged.
You get a decision you can defend
Bid or no-bid, a win probability, and the reasoning behind both — in about 90 seconds.
What the preview shows, and what it does not
No trial countdown and no card. You see whether the extraction is accurate before you decide anything.
The preview leads with Section L and Section M deliberately. Those are the instructions you must follow and the criteria you are scored against — the two that decide whether a bid is compliant and whether it wins. Anything can extract a CDRL row.
- 3 compliance requirements — Section L and M prioritised — each with the verbatim excerpt it came from
- The bid/no-bid verdict
- The win probability
- How many requirements the document actually contains
- Every remaining requirement, tagged by section
- All FAR/DFARS risk flags, disqualifying ones separated out
- Section L against Section M conflict analysis
- Proposal roadmap, hidden requirements, discriminators
- Word, Excel and PDF export
Six tools over MCP, not a chat box
BidSmith runs as a Model Context Protocol server, so the audit engine is callable from your own agents and workflows — not only from our interface. Each tool returns schema-enforced structured data with the source excerpt attached, which is the part that matters when a wrong number costs a protest rather than a retry.
That is the difference between a wrapper around a chat model and an engine you can build on. A wrapper gives you prose you have to check. These return typed fields with citations, the same ones our own product consumes.
bidsmith_audit_solicitationFull audit of a solicitation, returned as structured data bidsmith_extract_compliance_matrixRequirements by section — L, M, C, PWS, CDRL — each with its source excerpt bidsmith_far_dfars_lookupClause lookup with the disqualifying ones separated from the merely risky bidsmith_generate_bid_decisionBid/no-bid with the reasoning written out, not just a score bidsmith_qualify_leadFit scoring against your own capability profile bidsmith_estimate_proposal_roiCost of pursuit against the value of the awardPricing
Monthly, cancel any time. No demo call and no sales cycle.
Starter
$999/mo · 7-day free trial
Full compliance matrix, FAR/DFARS risk flags, and bid/no-bid verdict for up to 10 RFPs per month.
What it does not do
Worth knowing before you spend anything, and cheaper for both of us than finding out on a call.
- No opportunity discovery before a solicitation is released. BidSmith starts once you have a document and a deadline.
- No state, local or Canadian coverage — federal only.
- No SOC 2 report. A Type I audit is on the roadmap and has not started; our full data-handling posture is here.
- It does not write your proposal. It tells you what the document requires and whether to bid.
Try it on the solicitation you are working now
If the matrix does not match what you would have built by hand, you have lost 90 seconds.