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How to Easily Find and Pursue Federal Prime Grant Opportunities

October 2026•4 min read•Berkeley Bridge Advisors Documentation Team

Overview

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Federal Grant Opportunity Search

Grant opportunities are available on the Grant Opportunity Search page, which can be found under Business Development -> Opportunities -> Grants in the sidebar or by clicking here.

On this page, you can select the Add Filters dropdown to add filters to find the opportunities most relevant to your business (a full list is below).

As you find potentially interesting grant opportunities, click the opportunity title to open up the Grant Opportunity detail page to see the opportunity description, history, related opportunities, documents, similar opportunities, potential applicants, and other details. You can also favorite the opportunity by clicking the heart button to easily access it later by selecting the My Favorites filter.

Saved Searches and Alerts

Favoriting, Tracking, and No Bidding

Data Sources

All federal grant opportunity data comes from grants.gov.

Available Federal Contract Opportunity Search Filters

Quick

Active Opportunity: Filter for opportunities with a due date in the future

Exclude No Bid: Exclude opportunities from the results that you have marked as No Bid.

My Favorites: Filter for opportunities that you have marked as a favorite

My Pursuits: Filter for opportunities linked to at least one Pursuit. This filter is only available if you have Created a Pipeline and at least one pursuit.

Only Civilian: Filter for agencies outside of the Department of Defense

Only Defense: Filter for agencies within the Department of Defense

Search

Keywords: Keywords found in the contract description, document summaries, or other metadata. Learn more about accepted keyword syntax in the Search Basics.

Agency: Filter by the federal agency that issued the opportunity

Applicant Type: Filter for the types of applicants that are eligible for the opportunity

Due Date: Filter by the current due date of the contract opportunity

Date Posted: Filter by the most recent posting date of the contract

Funding Amount: Filter by the amount of funding that is allocated to the grant

Funding Category: Filter for matching funding categories associated with the grant opportunity

Funding Instrument: Filter by the type of funding instrument including Grant, Cooperative Agreement and Procurement

Grant Program: Filter by the associated grant program (CFDA)

Match: Filter for recommended opportunities based on a company's prior experience or registration information.

Person: Filter by the federal grant officer listed on the contract opportunity

Posting Type: Filter by either Posted or Forecasted grant opportunities