SAM.gov Contract Opportunities
U.S. General Services Administration (SAM.gov, Integrated Award Environment)
The single federal portal where every agency posts procurement notices, including the evaluation, data-collection and policy-research solicitations that never circulate on academic listservs.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)A portal, not a single award. Values are set in each individual solicitation; no figure is published on the portal page.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Notices post continuously. The page describes presolicitation notices, solicitation notices, award notices and sole source notices, each with its own response date.
- Who can apply
- Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Practitioner, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Anyone may search opportunities without an account, but to submit an offer as a prime an organization needs an active SAM.gov entity registration. Universities routinely bid, though many social-policy evaluation solicitations are set aside for small businesses, in which case a university's route is as a named subcontractor.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- procurement · program evaluation · policy research · solicitations · federal contracting
- Apply at
- https://sam.gov/content/opportunities
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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