AcornBids is an AI‑powered government contract intelligence platform that lets contractors pose plain‑language qualification questions about federal opportunities and receive structured answers, summaries, and filters across SAM.gov listings and attached PDFs. By automatically surfacing only the contracts that meet the defined criteria, it reduces daily review time from hundreds of solicitations to a focused set of pre‑qualified opportunities.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Federal contractors must manually review hundreds of SAM.gov solicitations and attached PDFs each day, using keyword filters and complex search strings that are time‑consuming and often miss relevant opportunities. This manual screening limits small businesses and procurement teams from efficiently identifying contracts that truly match their capabilities, clearances, and other qualification criteria.
Solution
AcornBids provides an AI‑driven contract intelligence platform that lets users define plain‑language qualification questions—such as required clearances, place of performance, contract vehicle, dates, or value—and automatically applies those questions to the full text of federal opportunities and their PDFs. The system returns structured yes/no, text, numeric, or date answers, along with concise solicitation summaries, filters, and alerts. Users can instantly filter the entire SAM.gov feed to a focused set of pre‑qualified contracts, reducing daily review time from hours to a handful of high‑fit opportunities. The platform also supports reusable question templates and shared pursuit pipelines, enabling consistent bid/no‑bid decisions across business development and capture teams.
Target Audience
Primary customers are small federal contractors, business development and capture managers, procurement consultants, and proposal operations teams that need to streamline federal opportunity qualification.
Features
- Plain‑language question authoring with support for Yes/No, text, number, and date answer types
- AI extraction of answers from opportunity descriptions and attached PDF documents
- Automatic generation of solicitation summaries and key data points (dates, values, clearance requirements)
- Dynamic filtering and alerting based on AI‑derived answers to surface only matching contracts
- Reusable qualification templates that create shared pursuit pipelines for teams
- Integration with SAM.gov data to continuously monitor new opportunities and update matches