# Federal contracting recipes for AI agents

- Find open bids for your NAICS code and set-aside: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/find-open-bids-by-naics-and-set-aside.md
  Prompt: Find open federal bids under NAICS 561720 that are set aside for small business. Sort them by response deadline, closing soonest first, and give me the title, agency, deadline, place of performance and the SAM.gov link for each.
- Check a teaming partner's SAM registration and exclusions: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/check-teaming-partner-sam-registration-and-exclusions.md
  Prompt: Check UEI ZXBCU6K5KL99 before we sign a teaming agreement: is its SAM.gov registration active, when does it expire, and is it on the exclusions list? Quote the data-as-of dates and link the SAM.gov record.
- List recompetes in your NAICS in the next 12 months: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/list-recompetes-in-my-naics.md
  Prompt: List contracts in NAICS 541512 that are likely to be recompeted in the next 12 months. Show incumbent, agency, potential value, potential end date and the solicitation ID, largest value first, and skip anything under $1 million.
- Monitor your SAM registration expiry: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/monitor-my-sam-registration-expiry.md
  Prompt: When does the SAM.gov registration for my UEI ZXBCU6K5KL99 expire, how many days are left, and should I start renewing now? Quote the data date.
- Build a capability statement from your SAM record: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/build-a-capability-statement-from-your-sam-record.md
  Prompt: Draft a one-page capability statement for UEI ABCDEFGH1234. Pull our identifiers, NAICS codes, business types and SBA certifications from SAM.gov, and pick our five most relevant federal contracts as past performance. Leave the core competencies and differentiators for me to write.
- Summarize a solicitation: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/summarize-a-solicitation.md
  Prompt: Summarize SAM.gov notice 5d8aa2693f7c4dd7adf3f6494c77eb5d for a bid or no-bid decision: what is being bought, the set-aside, NAICS, deadline in Eastern time, place of performance, and three questions I should answer before bidding.
- Find the incumbent on a contract: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/find-the-incumbent-on-a-contract.md
  Prompt: Who is the incumbent on the work behind SAM.gov notice 5d8aa2693f7c4dd7adf3f6494c77eb5d? Check the notice for a prior contract number first; if there is none, search awards in the same NAICS and agency and tell me how confident the match is.
- Compare GSA labor rates for a labor category: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/compare-gsa-labor-rates.md
  Prompt: What do GSA schedule contracts pay for a software engineer? Give me the count, quartiles and range, then list ten rates for people with a bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of experience.
- Check your size standard for a NAICS code: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/check-your-size-standard-for-a-naics-code.md
  Prompt: Is my company small under NAICS 541512 with average annual receipts of $20 million? How much headroom do I have before I outgrow it?
- Daily bid digest with n8n: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/daily-bid-digest-with-n8n.md
  Prompt: Build me an n8n workflow that every weekday at 7:00 fetches open opportunities posted yesterday for NAICS 541511, 541512 and 541519 from samgovapi.io and emails me a digest with title, agency, deadline and link.
- Look up CAGE codes in bulk: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/bulk-cage-code-lookup.md
  Prompt: Here are 40 CAGE codes from our supplier list. For each one, give me the legal name, UEI, SAM.gov status, expiration date and exclusion flag in a table, and put anything expired or expiring within 90 days at the top.
- Verify small business certifications: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/verify-small-business-certifications.md
  Prompt: Check UEI ABCDEFGH1234: which SBA certifications does it hold and until when, which small business types does its SAM.gov registration list, and for which NAICS codes is it small?
- Find teaming partners by certification: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/find-teaming-partners-by-certification.md
  Prompt: Find 8(a) certified firms in Virginia that work in NAICS 561720 and have won federal contracts. Rank them by award volume and show UEI, CAGE, registration expiry and total obligated.
- Track a competitor's awards: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/track-a-competitors-awards.md
  Prompt: Show me the federal contract awards for UEI ABCDEFGH1234 since 2025-10-01. Group them by agency, give totals, and list any contracts whose potential end date is in the next 12 months.
- Size a federal market by NAICS and agency: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/size-a-federal-market-by-naics.md
  Prompt: How much did the Department of Veterans Affairs obligate under NAICS 541512 in fiscal year 2026? Give me the total, the top ten recipients with their share, and how much went through small business set-asides.
- Audit suppliers for expiring SAM registrations: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/audit-a-supplier-list-for-expiring-registrations.md
  Prompt: Here are the UEIs of our 25 subcontractors. Check each SAM.gov registration and give me a table sorted by days to expiry, with anything expired or expiring in the next 90 days at the top. Note the data date.
- Find the right NAICS code for your business: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/find-the-right-naics-code-for-your-business.md
  Prompt: We clean office buildings and also do floor care and window washing for commercial clients. Which NAICS codes fit, what are their size standards, and which one does the federal government buy most under?
- Find sources sought notices to shape requirements: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/sources-sought-notices-to-shape-requirements.md
  Prompt: List open sources sought notices and RFIs under NAICS 541511, 541512 and 541519, with the agency, response date, and a two-sentence summary of what they are researching. Put the ones closing first at the top.
- Find bids closing this week: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/bids-closing-this-week.md
  Prompt: Which open solicitations in Texas under NAICS 236220 and 238210 are due in the next seven days? Sort by deadline, show the deadline in Central time, and flag any that are small business set-asides.
- Find PSC codes for what you sell: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/find-psc-codes-for-what-you-sell.md
  Prompt: Which Product and Service Codes cover IT systems development and cloud hosting? Show active codes only, then search open opportunities under the best two.
- Pull past performance for a proposal: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/pull-past-performance-for-a-proposal.md
  Prompt: From the federal awards for UEI ABCDEFGH1234 since 2021-10-01, pick the three most relevant past performance references for a VA IT modernization bid under NAICS 541512. For each, give PIID, agency, value, period of performance and a one-line scope.
- Screen a supplier list for exclusions: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/screen-a-supplier-list-for-exclusions.md
  Prompt: Screen these 30 suppliers against the SAM.gov exclusions list by UEI. Return a table of supplier, UEI, excluded yes or no, and any matching record, and tell me the date of the exclusions data you used.
- Weekly recompete sheet with Zapier: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/weekly-recompete-sheet-with-zapier.md
  Prompt: Set up a Zapier Zap that every Monday pulls contracts in NAICS 541512 ending in the next 18 months from samgovapi.io and adds them to my Recompetes Google Sheet with incumbent, agency, value, end date and USAspending link.
- Get an API key through your agent: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/get-an-api-key-through-your-agent.md
  Prompt: Get me a samgovapi.io API key. I want SAM.gov registration and opportunity data to check teaming partners and find bids in NAICS 541512.
- Find prime contractors to subcontract under: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/find-prime-contractors-to-subcontract-under.md
  Prompt: Which companies won the most prime contract dollars under NAICS 541330 at the Department of the Navy since 2025-10-01? Give me the top ten with total obligated, number of awards and their UEIs, and say which are large businesses.
- Research an agency before a capture: https://samgovapi.io/agents/recipes/research-an-agency-before-capture.md
  Prompt: Brief me on what the Department of Homeland Security buys under NAICS 541512 and 541519: top recipients and vehicles in the last fiscal year, what is open now, and which contracts end in the next 12 months.

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