Overview
BBA aggregates and enriches data from hundreds of thousands of sources including public data and proprietary analysis not available anywhere else–providing complete visibility into the government market.
Public Data Sources
Federal
BBA covers opportunities from all public federal sources, including SAM.GOV, GRANTS.GOV, DIBBS, PIIE, NECO, SBIR.GOV, JCCS, NIH Bid Boards, and others. BBA also tracks upcoming recompetes and expected acquisitions on major contracting vehicles. We also track agency forecasts from more than 70 agency sources, such as APFS (for DHS), Acquisition Gateway (for GSA), and LRAFs/LRAEs (dozens of Department of Defense agencies).
Major data sources for award and awardee data include FPDS, FSRS, USASpending, DSBS, GSA Advantage, and others. We also collect supplemental data from hundreds of additional sources, including Labor Rate disclosures, DoD Budget details, agency grant programs, and more.
State and Local
BBA tracks opportunities for more than 60,000 agencies in all 50 states, territories, and Washington D.C. Our coverage includes the entire SLED market, including State, Local, and Education agencies, as well as public utilities, hospital systems, and other public and quasi-public organizations.
State and local agencies post opportunities to statewide sites in select states (Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts), third-party vendor portals, their own websites, and physical newspapers.
BBA also tracks city, county, and school board meetings, inter-agency grant flows, and expiring contracts to forecast hundreds of thousands of shapable opportunities annually before they are publicly released.
Public Records Requests (Quasi-Public)
Every year thousands of public records requests are submitted to obtain critical market intelligence that is not otherwise publicly available. This data is integrated throughout BBA to provide our users with insights not available to other contractors.
Examples of data obtained by public records requests include historical award documents, contract-level labor rate data, and state and local award purchase orders.
How Often is Data Updated?
Data from major sources is updated every 15 minutes. Certain data sources may be updated less frequently, depending on government agency availability (for example, many agencies release acquisition forecasts only once a quarter).