Recompete Intelligence · Recompete Brief

How do you find the incumbent on a government recompete — before the RFP even drops?

Most capture teams start with a spreadsheet, a SAM.gov search, and a guess about how much runway is left. There’s a shorter path: start from the contract you already know about, see what the incumbent has actually done in the government’s own record, know the real number of days left, and get the whole picture assembled on one page.

See the workflow ↓

In beta with Growth accounts. A customer asked us for the Recompete Brief, we built it, and we’re shaping the rest of it with them — the screens below show the real workflow, on sample data.

The Workflow

From a tracked contract to a teaming decision — four steps.

Every step below runs off the same federal award record and the same coverage math the platform’s Gap Analysis tool uses — so nothing here can quietly disagree with what the rest of the product says about the same contract.

1Start Here

Start from the contract, not a blank search.

You already know which contract is coming up for recompete — it’s the one your team keeps mentioning in the pipeline meeting. Search for it once by PIID or by the incumbent’s name, hit the star, and it lands on your tracked list. From there, every recompete signal — runway, incumbent, awarding office, ceiling, obligations — rides along automatically. No separate recompete-tracking spreadsheet to keep current by hand.

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ContractIncumbentOfficeCeilingRecompete
Systems engineering, cyber ops, help desk & PM support — FSIMC
Meridian Federal Solutions LLCGSA FAS AAS FEDSIM
General Services Administration
$180.0M
62% obligated to date
12 JAN 2027
154d left
Option Period 3 of 3

Illustrative — sample data.

2Evidence

See what the incumbent has actually done — not what they say they do.

A capability statement tells you what a company wants you to believe. The federal award record tells you what the government actually paid them to deliver, category by category, with the dollars and award counts attached. That’s the read you need before you decide whether this recompete is a fight worth having — and where the incumbent is genuinely exposed.

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Incumbent Footprint — Meridian Federal Solutions LLC
This contract’s share of the incumbent’s federal portfolio, and their capability depth against this task order’s own categories.
28%
This task order’s FY2026 obligations ($26.8M) vs. Meridian’s total FY2026 federal prime obligations ($96.3M).
Other contracts held with this office
47QFCA21F0032 · $42.6M · Active
Capability depth vs. this task order’s categories
Systems Engineering & Integration
Covered
Program Management
Covered
Cybersecurity & RMF
Covered
Data Center Operations
Unknown
Cloud Migration & DevSecOps
Covered
Logistics & Asset Management
Gap
“Unknown” is a real answer, not a softer red — it means we haven’t extracted or matched evidence there yet. It is never counted as a gap.

Illustrative — sample data.

3Runway

Know the real runway left — not a guess from the award date.

An option period being “exercised” doesn’t tell you when it actually ends, and a base award signed three years ago doesn’t tell you whether an extension modification just quietly reset the clock. The Recompete Clock reads the contract’s own period of performance and modification history and states, in days, how much time is really left before this has to go back out to bid.

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Recompete Clock
BASE
OPTION 1
OPTION 2
OPTION 3 (current)
TODAY · 154d left
Option status
Option Period 3 of 3 — exercised
Current PoP end
12 Jan 2027
Last option exercised
03 Jul 2024 · mod P00006
Follow-on solicitation
None recorded as of this brief
“None recorded” is a statement about our record, never a claim that no solicitation exists — the Brief does not auto-detect a follow-on notice.

Illustrative — sample data.

4The Brief

One click, and it’s the government’s words — not ours.

The Recompete Brief pulls the solicitation’s own scope language verbatim (never a paraphrase), the incumbent’s footprint at this office, and the companies with real demonstrated capability where the incumbent is weakest — all keyed to this one contract, on one page. It runs on the same coverage math as Gap Analysis, so the two tools can never tell your team different things about the same requirement.

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Meridian Federal Solutions LLC47QFCA23F0099Recompete Mode
154d
Days remaining — Option Period 3
8
Capability areas assessed — 1 Gap, 1 Unknown
3
Companies with matching demonstrated capability
$180.0M / 62%
Ceiling, and obligated to date
Scope✓ Document-Verified
From the solicitation
The Contractor shall provide systems engineering, cybersecurity operations, help desk, and program management support services for the Federal Systems Integration and Management Center in accordance with the Performance Work Statement, Section C.
— Performance Work Statement · Solicitation 47QFCA22R0007 · PWS-analyzed

Illustrative — sample data.

What You Actually Get

Everything the Recompete Brief pulls together — and what it deliberately doesn’t.

No forecast, no win probability, no bid recommendation. Just the evidence, assembled once, from the government’s own record.

On the Brief
The contract identity, incumbent, and awarding/funding office
A Recompete Clock — current option period, days remaining, last option exercised, and any follow-on solicitation on record
The solicitation’s own scope language, quoted verbatim and marked Document-Verified when it’s extracted from the actual PWS/SOW
The incumbent’s capability depth against this task order’s own categories — Covered / Partial / Gap / Unknown
Companies with real demonstrated capability where the incumbent is weakest, ranked on evidence
Deliberately Not on the Brief
A win probability, a Pwin score, or a bid/no-bid recommendation
An auto-detected follow-on solicitation — if none is on record, the Brief says so instead of guessing
A claim about whether any company is or isn’t “small” — that’s a government determination, and we show the SAM certification, not our own verdict
An enabled export button — it ships visibly disabled today; the export engine isn’t built yet
Any coverage percentage or fit score — a company’s depth is shown category by category, never rolled into one number

Stop rebuilding this in a spreadsheet every time a contract comes up for recompete.

Track a contract once and the Recompete Brief carries it from there — runway, incumbent evidence, scope, and candidates, on one page.

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Common Questions

Three things people ask before they try it.

Does this tell me if I’ll win the recompete?

No — and we wouldn’t trust a tool that claimed to. The Brief shows you the real runway, the government’s own scope language, and where the incumbent is demonstrably strong or weak. The bid decision, and everything that goes into it, is still yours.

Where does the incumbent’s “capability” come from?

The federal award record — FPDS award descriptions and, where we’ve extracted one, the actual Performance Work Statement — never a capability statement a company wrote about itself. Where we don’t have enough evidence to call something a gap, we mark it Unknown instead of guessing.

Do I need to already be tracking the contract?

You track it once — search for the PIID or the incumbent’s name, click the star — and every recompete signal for that contract updates on its own after that. No spreadsheet to maintain in parallel.