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I built some similar capabilities by pulling from FedBizOpps back in the day. I made money simply by doing that processing, grouping by agency, category of the work, geography, and a few keywords and then emailing it to people. For some, I integrated with their CRM (Salesforce and SugarCRM at the time) to drop them in as new Opportunities for Discovery.

If you can start pulling historical data to identify "similar" (define that!) contracts and their bid history, that could be exceptionally useful for competitive intel, understanding who the players are (govt or private side), and how they've gone previously.

Beyond that, you start getting into bid management, including writing, review, and submission and there is HUGE money in that if you can wrap in tracking, compliance, reporting, etc. If you get into Exhibit 300s, may God have mercy on your soul.

Edit: One more useful thing here: If you can track the awards (usually on the individual agency's sites), you can further dig into the contracts and identify great opportunities to be subs and/or who to sell to in the Primes.

Excuse me, having flashbacks now..

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