How to find government contracts in the US (and get them daily)

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Figures as spoken in the video (October 2026). ScoutTide now reads 156 official sources in over 180 countries.

The United States publishes thousands of government contract opportunities every week, on a federal system and separate systems in each state. SAM.gov is the official federal system. You search contract opportunities there, and register your business to bid. States run their own. Texas posts solicitations on the Electronic State Business Daily, and California on Cal eProcure.

We wrote a free guide to tenders in the US: where they are published, what is in demand, who buys, and how much time you get to bid. The link is in the description.

The hard part is keeping up. You check several portals every day, a keyword search misses tenders worded differently, and abroad, many notices are in another language. And deadlines are short: of tenders published in early October 2026, the median deadline was 15 days, and more than a third closed within two weeks.

ScoutTide does the keeping up for you. Describe what you sell once, in plain words. Every morning ScoutTide reads 142 official procurement portals in 185 countries and gives you one ranked list of the tenders that fit, translated into English, with the deadline and a link to the official notice.

It also finds public posts on Reddit, LinkedIn, Stack Exchange and Upwork where someone is asking for what you sell. Mark what is not relevant and the list gets sharper. Save or claim a tender and share it with your team.

So instead of checking portals every day, you read one short list each morning, and you see tenders and buyers you would have missed.

Try it now without signing up: go to scouttide.com and type what you sell. If it finds work for you, start the 14 day free trial.