Manual SAM.gov search vs YNTELRADAR
YNTELRADAR is the most complete government contracting platform on the market — the only one that takes you from found to won.
SAM.gov is the free, authoritative federal portal and the system of record for federal solicitations — and we read it for you every day. Searching it by hand is where the work starts, not where it ends: the reading, the judging, the pricing and the writing are all still yours.
What Manual SAM.gov search actually is
SAM.gov is the free federal portal and the system of record for federal solicitations — we ingest it every day. It is a search box: it does not judge whether a notice fits your business, it does not carry a single state, county or school district, and once you have found the notice it tells you nothing about how to win it.
Why YNTELRADAR is the better choice
We ingest SAM.gov nationwide and add the state, city, county and K-12 school-district sources for the states in your plan, in one place, then score every notice 0–100 against your business with the reasons written out, read the solicitation and its attachments for you, and track amendments the day they post — so you're not re-running the same searches across dozens of sites. Then the part a search box cannot do: what the government actually paid on comparable awards and who won them, the recompetes coming up and who holds them today, teaming partners matched, your proposal drafted, the deadlines on a calendar you can export, and every bid tracked to Won. A daily digest and instant alerts bring it to you, in English or Spanish, from $39/mo.
| Manual SAM.gov search | YNTELRADAR | |
|---|---|---|
| Federal notices | Yes — the source of truth | Ingested daily, scored against you |
| State & local | Not covered | Federal in full, the state portals in the states on your plan, counties, cities and school districts — plus the record of what the government actually paid: hundreds of thousands of real awards. Federal nationwide on every plan. |
| AI fit scoring | No | Every notice scored 0–100 with the reasons |
| Amendments | Manual re-checking | Caught the day they happen |
| Price | Free | From $39/mo |
The short version: YNTELRADAR is the most complete government contracting platform on the market, and the only one that takes you from found to WON. Every federal, state and local notice — cities, counties and school districts included — scored against your business with the reasons written out. The solicitation documents read for you and broken down. The price worked out from what the government actually paid on comparable awards, and the companies that won them shown by name. The contracts coming up for recompete, with who holds them today. Teaming partners matched, and only the ones you can actually reach. Your proposal drafted with the compliance matrix and the email to the contracting officer. A daily digest and instant alerts that chase you instead of the other way round, the deadlines on a calendar you can export, and the bid tracked to won or lost. In English and in Spanish.
Category pricing for Manual SAM.gov search comes from those vendors' own public materials and can change — check the vendor before you decide. Our prices are on our pricing page.