Prime Connect

Daily pull · 07:00 ET

Every bid,
accounted for.

Prime Connect pulls SAM.gov solicitations, DLA quote requests and award history onto one board every morning at 07:00 Eastern — with the deadline on every line.

Open the board See what it reads

Three sources, read properly. No AI that guesses at relevance, no “5,000 portals” you will never search, no demo call to find out the price.

Live board 01 Aug 2026 Last updated 6 minutes ago
Source Item Qty Due
DLA HEADSET, ELECTRICAL SPE7M5-26-T-335R · NSN 5965-01-729-4150 · FSC 5965 282 EA 3d left
SAM 53 — RIVET, BLIND SPE4A6-26-T-09RB · NAICS 332510 · Small Business Set-Aside — 2d left
DLA CLOTH, COATED SPE1C1-26-Q-0394 · NSN 8305-01-391-9980 · FSC 8305 200 RO 12d left
SAM 20 — HATCH, MARINE SPE7M4-26-T-281D · NAICS 332510 · DLA Land and Maritime — 2d left
SAM ICE Air BPA — awarded CSI Aviation, Inc. · $305,741,520 · NAICS 481211 — Closed

Real solicitations from the 30 July 2026 DLA batch file and the same week on SAM.gov. Nothing on this page is a mockup.

Positioning

The category sells breadth.
You bid on four supply classes.

Every competitor advertises coverage — 278 portals, 5,000 sources, the whole federal-state-local universe. None of it helps if the thing you actually quote is aviation hardware and DLA line items, and you still have to open DIBBS by hand because your tracker never really parsed it.

What the market sells

  • “5,000+ sources” you will never search
  • AI relevance scoring you cannot audit
  • Win-rate statistics with no methodology
  • Pricing behind a demo call
  • DIBBS mentioned, rarely parsed
  • Seat licences and annual contracts

What Prime Connect does

  • Three sources, each read completely
  • Filters you set: NAICS, FSC, set-aside
  • Numbers you can check against the source
  • Price on the page, no call
  • DIBBS read from DLA’s own batch files
  • One flat price, whole team included

Sources

SAM.gov solicitations

Every notice posted against the NAICS codes you care about — solicitations, combined synopses, sources sought, presolicitations and award notices, with the winner and the amount on the ones already decided.

SAM rate-limits personal API keys to as few as ten requests a day. Prime Connect pulls server-side on a schedule and serves from cache, so the board never burns your quota on a page view — and tells you exactly how old it is.

Refresh
07:00 ET daily, plus on demand
Window
Rolling 14 days of postings
Filters
NAICS, notice type, set-aside, keyword
Quota
One request per NAICS per refresh
On 429
Keeps serving cache, tells you why

DLA DIBBS quote requests

Roughly 2,500 RFQ line items a day from the Defense Logistics Agency, with the NSN, supply class, quantity, unit of issue and return-by date — and a direct link to the RFQ PDF.

Filter to the supply classes you stock: 5965 headsets and speakers, 5340 hardware, 1680 aircraft components, or all 200-plus.

Volume
≈2,500 line items per business day
Method
DLA’s published daily batch files
Fields
NSN, FSC, PR number, qty, unit, return-by
Links
RFQ PDF and DIBBS package view
Retention
Kept 30 days past return-by

Award history

Before you price it, see who won it last time and for how much. Search past federal awards by keyword or NAICS across up to seven years, with the top winners ranked by total value.

USAspending.gov is free and unmetered, so this one runs live on every search rather than off a cache.

Source
USAspending.gov
Range
12 months to 7 years
Returns
Winner, amount, agency, period, scope
Latency
Live per search
Links
Straight through to the award record

How the DLA feed works

Most trackers scrape the DIBBS grid.
That grid breaks.

The DIBBS web interface paginates through ASP.NET postbacks, so a scraper built on it fails every time DLA restyles the site — usually quietly, which is worse. Prime Connect reads the fixed-width index files DLA publishes itself, the same data behind the site.

dibbs2.bsm.dla.mil/Downloads/RFQ/Archive/in260730.txt — line 1
SPE1C126Q03948305013919980                                    701769083408/13/26SPE1C126Q0394.pdf  0000200ROCLOTH,COATED         PLCL5C1Y100
└─ solicitation ┘└──── NSN ────┘                                    └─ PR ──┘└ due ─┘                   └ qty ┘└┘└── item name ──┘
DLA CLOTH, COATED SPE1C1-26-Q-0394 · NSN 8305-01-391-9980 · FSC 8305 · PR 7017690834 200 RO Due 13 Aug

Column offsets, the DoD consent banner and the PDF path rule are all handled. The parser is covered by tests pinned to real published lines: for 30 July 2026 it reproduces all 2,627 line items exactly.

2,627line items parsed from one day’s file
2,448distinct solicitations in that day
200+supply classes you can filter to
0HTML scraping involved

From board to quote

Star it, price it, send it.

Finding the work is half the job. The saved list is shared with your whole team — one workspace, not one inbox — so nobody quotes the same NSN twice.

Shared saved list

Star anything from any tab. Everyone sees it, with who saved it and when, plus a notes field for the supplier you called and the lead time they quoted.

Margin calculator

Put your cost and your bid price on the saved item and Prime Connect works the margin in dollars and percent, live as you type.

CSV export

The whole saved list, margins included, in a spreadsheet — safely escaped, so a note beginning with “=” opens as text rather than executing in Excel.

Deadline first

Everything sorts by what closes soonest. Under three days goes red. A date-only DLA return-by counts as good until close of business, not midnight.

Handling your credentials

Your SAM.gov key never reaches a browser.

The key is tied to your SAM.gov account, so it is the one thing here genuinely worth stealing. It is read only on the server. The dashboard is shown a masked form of it and nothing else, and every error message is scrubbed before it is logged or stored — including the ones that get shown back to you.

Passwords
scrypt, per-user salt, no third-party auth service
Sessions
Server-side, HMAC-signed cookie, HttpOnly and Secure
Sign-in
Rate limited per address and per account; timing equalised so it cannot be used to discover who has an account
Browser
Strict Content-Security-Policy; the page talks to nothing but its own origin
Dependencies
Five runtime packages, zero known vulnerabilities

The full write-up, including what is still your responsibility, is in the security notes.

Price

One price, on the page.

No seat maths, no annual commitment, no call with an account executive to discover a number. Your whole team shares one workspace.

$49 / month

  • SAM.gov, DLA DIBBS and award history
  • Up to 10 people in one shared workspace
  • Unlimited saved bids, notes and CSV exports
  • Daily 07:00 ET refresh and on-demand pulls
  • Cancel whenever — it is month to month
Open the board

You bring your own SAM.gov API key — free from SAM.gov, and it keeps your data yours. DIBBS and USAspending need no key at all.

Questions

Why only three sources?

Because those are the three a small federal reseller actually bids into, and each one is read completely rather than skimmed. A list of 5,000 portals is a marketing number — you cannot meaningfully monitor 5,000 anything. If you need state and local coverage, Prime Connect is not the right tool and we would rather say so here than after you have paid.

Is there AI in this?

No, and that is deliberate. Relevance comes from filters you set yourself — NAICS codes, supply classes, set-aside type, keywords. You can always tell why something is on your board, which is not true of a model that scores opportunities for you.

What happens when my SAM.gov quota runs out?

The board keeps working from cache and tells you plainly that the quota is exhausted and when the data is from. Automatic retries back off for six hours instead of burning requests you do not have. Registering your entity on SAM.gov raises the limit from as few as 10 requests a day to 1,000.

Do you store my SAM.gov API key?

Yes, server-side, so the scheduled pull can run while nobody is signed in. It is never sent to a browser, never written to a log, and never included in an error message. You can replace or remove it at any time from the settings screen.

Can I submit bids through Prime Connect?

No. Prime Connect finds and tracks work; quoting still happens on SAM.gov and DIBBS where it belongs. Anything claiming to submit federal bids for you is worth a very careful read.

What if DLA does not publish a file that day?

There is no batch file on weekends or federal holidays. Prime Connect walks back up to four days to find the most recent one and carries on, so a Monday morning shows you Friday’s postings rather than an empty board.

Start

Tomorrow at 07:00, the board is already made.

Bring your SAM.gov key and your NAICS codes. Setup is one screen.

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