Free during betaKnow how the Government will buy — before the RFP drops.
Drop a Sources Sought or RFI on it. SoliCast predicts the vehicle, the evaluation method and the set-aside from the notice and the agency's real buying history — then helps you shape the acquisition while it's still malleable.
The months nobody's tool covers
Discovery tools find the notice. Proposal tools write the response. In between — the months when the Government is still deciding how to buy — a contractor can still influence the vehicle, the evaluation approach and the set-aside. That is capture, and it has been analyst prose and spreadsheets until now. SoliCast runs the procurement playbook predictively, and shows its work.
What SoliCast predicts
Every prediction commits to an answer and cites its evidence: quotable signals from the notice, and the agency's actual recent awards from USAspending.gov. Base rates, never oracle claims.
Contract vehicle
Standalone RFP, RFQ under simplified acquisition, task order on an existing IDIQ or GWAC, BPA call, GSA schedule buy — read from the notice and from what that office has actually done.
Source-selection method
Sealed bidding, LPTA, best-value tradeoff, qualifications-based, or simplified — the single decision that determines whether price or technical merit wins.
Set-aside
Total small business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or full and open — and, when the Government is still polling industry, what the responses will decide.
Rating scheme & contract type
Adjectival, color, numerical, pass/fail; FFP, T&M, cost-plus or hybrid — plus the evaluation factors most likely to show up in Section M.
Five steps from notice to RFP
- 1
Notice
Paste or drop the Sources Sought, RFI or draft PWS. SoliCast reads it, fills in the details, and pulls out the Government contacts.
- 2
Analysis
The Acquisition Strategy Predictor commits to the most likely vehicle, method, set-aside and rating scheme — with the notice signals and the agency's award history behind each call.
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Playbook
A shaping plan grounded only in your company's evidence: the argument to make, evaluation factors to advocate for, questions to ask, and exactly who to engage.
- 4
Engage
Draft the emails to the CO, program office and small-business specialist from your playbook — one clear ask, FAR-clean, sent from your own mailbox. Every touch is logged.
- 5
Track
Capture gates, pwin, competitors, SAM release watch — then record what the Government actually did and hand off to RFP Forge with everything you built.
Grounded in your evidence
The playbook and every outreach email draw only on your capability statement, past performance and teaming partners on file. Discriminators are cited; gaps are named, not papered over.
Outreach you actually send
SoliCast never emails the Government for you. It drafts the note to the CO or program office — one ask, FAR-clean — you send it from your own mailbox, and the engagement log fills itself.
Honest by design
When the real RFP is out you record what the Government actually did, and SoliCast scores its own prediction — hits, misses and abstentions. That accuracy record is why SoliCast is free while we prove it.
One pursuit, three lenses
SoliCast sits between finding and bidding. Open any RFI in RFI Forge and its capture is already there; the playbook rides into the response; Vantage keeps one card for the whole journey.
- Opportunity Forgefinds the Sources Sought and pushes it to RFI Forge
- SoliCastpredicts how they'll buy, builds the playbook, drafts the outreach
- RFI Forgewrites the response with the playbook as context
- Vantagetracks the one pursuit through award
- RFP Forgegets the capture brief the day the RFP drops
Shape the next one before it's written.
Free during beta for every ContractForgeAI account. Paste your first Sources Sought and see how the Government is likely to buy it — with the evidence.
Data: USAspending.gov and SAM.gov. Your documents stay in your tenant.