BidBrief / How we verify

Every claim in a brief is checked against a named public source — or the brief doesn't ship.

Analysis you'd bet a proposal budget on has to be right. Here is the actual process behind every brief, including the part where we throw briefs away.

1. Only public, named sources

Briefs are built exclusively from the solicitation's own documents on SAM.gov (the RFP, PWS/SOW, amendments, pricing sheets), the Department of Labor wage determination for that county, and federal award history from FPDS. Every factual claim traces to one of those. If a fact isn't in the source documents, it doesn't go in the brief — even if it's probably true.

2. Numbers are computed, never transcribed

Award histories, dollar amounts, dates, and wage-floor math are extracted and computed by code directly from the government records — not retyped by hand or paraphrased. What you see in an incumbent table is the FPDS record, verbatim.

3. An independent check reads every brief before you do

Before a brief ships, a separate verification pass compares it line-by-line against the exact source text it was built from. Deadlines, set-asides, contacts, scope quotes, award tables — each has to match the record.

4. When the data is thin, we say nothing

Some solicitations keep their documents behind restricted portals we can't read. We don't guess what's in them — those opportunities are skipped rather than briefed on assumption. A brief you receive means the underlying documents were actually read.

5. What we deliberately won't do

We won't tell you an exact number to bid — anyone who does is guessing with your money. We give the mandatory wage floor and the historical award range; your number depends on your overhead, which only you know. And we won't promise you'll win — roughly half our verdicts are SKIP, because knowing when not to bid is half the value.

See it for yourself — two current briefs, unedited:

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