Find the NAICS codes you can actually bid on
Your NAICS codes decide which federal contracts you're eligible for. Get them wrong and you'll spend months chasing work you can't win.
What a NAICS code is
A six-digit code that classifies what your business does. Every federal solicitation names one, and it's the first filter a contracting officer applies.
Where yours live
On your SAM.gov entity registration. If you registered, you already picked them — most businesses picked too many, and too broadly.
Why fewer is better
A tight set of codes means a feed you'll actually read. YNTELRADAR scores against your codes, so three accurate ones beat twelve aspirational ones.
Stop reading. Start bidding.
Everything this guide asks you to do by hand, YNTELRADAR does for you on federal, state and local notices: it scores each one against your business and writes out why, reads the solicitation documents and breaks them down, prices the work from what the government actually paid on comparable awards, shows who won those, drafts the proposal and tracks the bid to won or lost. In English and in Spanish.
It also tells you which contracts are coming up for rebid before the notice is published, finds the partner that closes the eligibility gap you can't close alone, and keeps you posted without you checking: a daily digest of what scored, instant alerts on the strong ones, and a warning the day a deadline moves.