Win the subcontract, before the prime starts dialing.
Every weekday morning, you get one short brief: a federal prime that just won work in your trade and your region, an estimated slice of that work that could flow to you, the right person at the prime to contact, and a draft intro email you can send as-is.
- Briefs
- by 06:00 local
- Starting at
- $199 / month
- Sources
- open federal data
Keystone Federal Services, JV
W912DY-26-C-0041 · NAICS 541512 · Fort Belvoir, VA
Who it's for
Built for the small trade sub, not the prime-tracking buyer.
The big tracking tools tell you what 's about to be bid. The day a contract is awarded, the chart goes quiet — and that's exactly when a small sub has the shot.
Pre-award tools
Solicitations, drafts, sources sought.
Useful while the RFP is open; the signal disappears the day the award is made.
Tributary
The prime wins, your brief appears.
Recipient, place of performance, a dollar range, the prime's small-business liaison, and a drafted intro email — before sunrise.
How it works
Four quiet jobs, one brief a morning.
Tributary reads open federal award records, picks the ones that match your trade, your geography, and any certifications you carry — then packages what you need to reach the prime first thing.
- 01
We watch the awards
Each evening, Tributary reads the new federal prime wins of the day from open public records.
- 02
We match to your scope
For each win, we check whether your trade, the place where the work happens, and the certifications you carry actually fit.
- 03
We figure a dollar range
For every match, we work out an estimated slice of the work that's likely to flow to a subcontractor like you.
- 04
You get a brief by sunrise
One short brief per match, in your inbox by 06:00 local: recipient, place, range, contact at the prime, and a drafted intro you can send.
A brief, in the wild
What lands by 06:00.
Here's a real-looking system-design prime that just won work at a Virginia Army installation — sorted under a small-business set-aside you could bid.
Keystone Federal Services, JV
Award W912DY-26-C-0041 · US Army Corps of Engineers · small-business set-aside · NAICS 541512
Work is being performed at: Fort Belvoir, VA
$1.4M–$2.1M
A dollar range, figured from past federal data about how much of jobs like this typically flow to subcontractors.
How we figure the dollar range
NAICS prefix is matched to a sector ratio drawn from band.ts— services typically 12–14%, specialty-trade construction 32%, IT services 14%, R&D 18%, then transport 16% and admin / waste 22%. On top of that base, a set-aside weight (SDVOSB / 8(a) at 1.10, WOSB / HUBZone at 1.05, SBA 1.00) and an agency-family multiplier (DoD / Navy 1.05, civilian 0.95, VA 1.00, GSA 0.90) are applied to the prime's public award value. The result is then snapped into a ±15% wide band before we surface it.
Why the band is conservative: every input is public, the band is a sanity-check for your outreach — not a bid.
Marisol Aguirre
Small Business Programs Manager · Keystone Federal Services
marisol.aguirre@keystonefed.example
DC · MD · VA — within 35 miles of Ft. Belvoir.
Subject: 8(a) / WOSB capacity — W912DY-26-C-0041 (NAICS 541512, Ft. Belvoir) Hi Marisol — Congrats on the award yesterday. As an 8(a) / WOSB in scope for NAICS 541512 with a practice around Ft. Belvoir, we'd like to offer capacity on the systems-design and C5ISR integration rig you stood up under that vehicle. — Tributary
Your scope
Tell us your trade. We'll watch the river.
One profile, two minutes to set. We'll match your trade codes, the places you work, and the certifications you carry.
Trade codes (NAICS)
- 238210 — Electrical contractors
- 238220 — HVAC / mechanical
- 561612 — Security & protective
- 561720 — Janitorial
- 561320 — IT staffing
- 561730 — Landscaping
- 488510 — Logistics / freight
- 541512 — Computer systems design
- 541330 — Engineering services
- 517919 — IT & telecom operations
- 238310 — Drywall & finishes
Where you work
- National Capital Region
- Fort Belvoir, VA
- San Diego, CA
- Dahlgren, VA
- Custom radius (mi)
Certifications you carry
- SDVOSB (service-disabled veteran)
- WOSB (women-owned)
- 8(a) (small disadvantaged)
- HUBZone
- Small-business set-aside only
What your brief looks like in your trade
The same shape — adapted to your NAICS, your POP, your certs.
Here's how the brief reads out for four representative small trade subs. The structure never changes; the inputs do. The dollar ranges below are illustrative bands produced from band.ts inputs — sanity-checks, not bids.
Electrical (NAICS 238210)
Fort Eisenhower, GA
$2.1M – $2.9M
Prime's liaison on the published agency OSDBU directory.
Subject: SBA capacity — W91238-26-C-0173 (NAICS 238210, Fort Eisenhower)
Janitorial (NAICS 561720)
MCB Quantico, VA
$1.0M – $1.4M
Listed on SAM.gov DSBS — not yet email-verified.
Subject: 8(a) capacity — M00264-26-C-0118 (NAICS 561720, Quantico)
IT staffing (NAICS 561320)
Fort Belvoir, VA
$2.4M – $3.2M
Sourced from SAM.gov DSBS profile in today's daily refresh.
Subject: WOSB capacity — W912DY-26-C-0042 (NAICS 561320, Ft. Belvoir)
Landscaping (NAICS 561730)
MCAS Cherry Point, NC
$330K – $445K
Derived from set-aside designation; older refresh in our cache.
Subject: HUBZone capacity — M67001-26-C-0092 (NAICS 561730, Cherry Point)
Illustrative bands; the production brief is recomputed from band.ts on the day of the award. For the matching rules and policy behind these outputs, see How it works →.
Pricing
Two tiers. Just a monthly bill.
No seat math, no add-ons, no "call us for enterprise". The same morning brief, with or without a person helping you read it.
Self-serve
$199 / month
- Morning brief delivered by 06:00 local
- Match by your trade codes + where you work
- SDVOSB / WOSB / 8(a) / HUBZone filters
- Contact at the prime, plus a drafted intro
- Cancel from any brief's footer
Daily brief · unlimited trade codes up to 20 · any of the seven certification flags · cancel from any brief footer.
Start $199 / monthAssisted
$599 / month
- Everything in Self-serve, for your whole team
- Someone from our team reviews your first briefs with you
- Help wiring up scope + certifications your firm carries
- Per-seat trade / geography, so each person sees their own river
- One shared scope library so your team is consistent
Weekly walkthrough on your first briefs · shared scope library · up to 5 seats · per-seat trade & geography.
Start $599 / monthWhere this comes from
We don't ask you to take our word for it.
- Open prime-award recordsThe federal daily-award feed (USASpending) — refreshed nightly.
- Past sub-award historyRecords of how work like this has flowed down (FSRS) — used for the dollar range.
- Public small-business profilesSAM.gov Dynamic Small Business Search — used to find the prime's small-business liaison.
- Agency small-business contactsPublicly-published OSDBU directories — used to verify liaison reachability.
Get your first morning brief
Drop your email. We'll send a sign-in link.
One field, one button, one link in your inbox. Set your trade, where you work, and any certifications you carry — and your first brief assembles itself.