Who this is for.
The Buildout is a single tool that solves five different problems for five different audiences. Here's how each one uses it.
Knowing which agencies are growing budget, which competitors are winning recompetes, and which opportunities close in the next 60 days — without paying $20K a seat for Deltek.
- Watch recompete dates on incumbent contracts above a dollar threshold.
- Profile a competitor's federal portfolio before a proposal review.
- Filter grant opportunities by NAICS code and closing window.
- Get a weekly digest of which agencies your competitors are getting paid by.
A BD director at a 200-person federal IT firm sees that the $4B Booz Allen DHS contract expires in 9 months. The recompete RFP just dropped. The Buildout shows them the incumbent's full DHS portfolio, the sub-tier offices involved, and the historical award-size distribution — enough to decide whether to bid.
Story leads from federal spending data without spending two hours a day on USAspending.gov.
- Get an alert when a recipient new to federal funding lands their first contract.
- Spot sudden concentrations — one contractor winning a disproportionate share of a category.
- Cross-reference Federal Register rules with the agencies funding affected industries.
- Track which programs got zeroed out or doubled month-over-month.
A reporter sees that DOE awarded $2.1B in grid-scale battery research over four weeks — a sector that didn't crack the top ten a year ago. They click through to the recipients, then the related Federal Register rules, and have the spine of a story by lunch.
Quantifying federal revenue exposure across a portfolio and tracking quarter-over-quarter growth at the contract level.
- Sum each public defense prime's tracked federal awards by quarter and by agency.
- Watch for unannounced contract wins between earnings calls.
- Track sub-tier dependency: how much of an emerging contractor's revenue is one program office?
- Identify the next contractor that will materially benefit from a new appropriation.
An analyst covering Palantir wants to know how much of the company's growth this quarter is dependent on DoD's Maven program office vs spread across agencies. The Buildout shows them every Palantir-affiliated UEI's awards by sub-tier office. They write the buy-side note that afternoon.
Connecting regulatory action to the spending that follows — and identifying who's already positioned to benefit.
- Pair a new Federal Register rule with the recipients most exposed to it.
- Track which agencies are growing in your client's industry segment.
- Identify the universe of companies that hold contracts in a regulated category.
- Build a stakeholder list for an issue campaign in a single afternoon.
A trade association tracking a new EPA proposed rule on PFAS limits pulls the list of every EPA contract above $1M in the affected category, plus the grant opportunities under the same CFDA line. They have a 40-page member briefing the next morning.
Watching the Federal Register for rules that touch your business — without reading 200 documents a week.
- Filter the Federal Register to a single agency or document type.
- Subscribe to a topic and receive a weekly summary by email.
- Cross-reference rule effective dates against your client's contract delivery windows.
A compliance officer at a logistics contractor follows DOT and DHS rule publications via The Buildout's filtered feed. When a new TSA cargo-screening rule lands, they immediately see which of their company's TSA contracts are affected and the rule's effective date.
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The pipeline is the same regardless of audience — every page is generated from the same database. If your use case isn't covered above, the data is likely already there.