Questions worth asking

Federal. Two feeds, collected in full:

• sam_gov— 151,472 notices· last collected 2026-10-13 at 12:25 UTC
• world_bank— 3,991 notices· last collected 2026-08-21 at 18:09 UTC
• grants_gov— 1,998 notices· last collected 2026-10-13 at 12:22 UTC
• idb— 1,994 notices· last collected 2026-08-21 at 18:35 UTC

State sources: hourly, on a schedule. A background agent re-fetches every state source and compares it against the last stored copy. The measured median gap between runs is 1434 minutes — that is read from the run history, not from the configured setting, so it reflects what actually happened rather than what was intended. Last run: 2026-10-13 at 12:23 UTC.

Changes caught on state sources so far: 258. That figure is deliberately small — it counts real observed changes, not page re-renders.

You do. Dowser finds opportunities, decodes them and tracks them. It does not draft, review or submit anything, and there is no proposal tooling in the product.

Hands-on capture support and brokerage engagement exist, but as a Custom arrangement agreed per engagement — a service delivered by people, not a feature in the software.

Amendments are kept, not overwritten. When a notice changes, the previous version is retained and the new one is stored alongside it, so the record shows what it used to say rather than quietly becoming something else. 122,851 records currently carry at least one superseded version.

Closed notices stay. Nothing is deleted when a deadline passes — a closed notice is still evidence of who buys this work and who won it. Of 159,455 notices held, 12,775 are still open for response; the rest are closed and searchable.

Because we store an index-level record for most notices rather than the full text of every one. The shortened summary is enough to judge relevance; the authoritative wording lives on the issuing agency’s own notice, and every record links straight to it.

This is the majority of the corpus, not an edge case: 95,991 of 159,455 records (60%) carry a shortened summary. Expect to follow the link for full terms.

Records can be widened to full detail where it earns its place — the storage design allows it — but today most are held at index level.

SAM.gov is free, authoritative, and you should keep using it. Dowser is not a replacement for it and does not hold anything SAM.gov does not publish. If your work is entirely federal and you already have a search that works, the honest answer is that you may not need this.

What it adds:

• State sources SAM.gov does not carry. 26 NEVI sources across 19 states, each on its own portal, watched for change.
• Official codes made searchable. 148,563 records carry a NAICS or PSC code, so a sector query is a code query rather than a keyword guess.
• Named contacts extracted. 18,116 agency contacts pulled off the notices themselves.
• Change detection. Amendments are kept as history rather than overwriting the record.

Two ways, and no password either way: continue with Google, or enter your email address and we send a six-digit code. The code path works on any domain — you do not need a Google or Microsoft account, only access to your inbox.

There is no self-service sign-up. We grant access to named addresses. Signing in successfully does not by itself grant access to anything — an address we have not granted reaches a page telling it so, and nothing else.