A Levenhall Product
Market Entry Intelligence for US Federal Contracting
A pre-RFP intelligence platform — appropriations signal, opportunity scoring, primes, partners — with a marketplace and capture workflow built on top. Built first for allied technology firms entering the US federal market (AUKUS, Five Eyes, NATO), and for US contractors capturing federal work.
Federal Procurement Runs on Signal That Doesn't Live on SAM.gov
The US federal procurement market is $750B a year, and almost all of it operates on signal that publishes outside SAM.gov. Appropriations bills, agency forecasts, committee markups, GAO bid protests, OFAC entity-list updates, allied-nation defense reorganizations, FOCI and CFIUS adjudications — these move 6 to 12 months before the RFP and decide who wins.
Incumbents have $50K-a-year intel subscriptions, ex-government bizdev staff, and lobbyist relationships. Everyone else sees the RFP on SAM.gov and competes blind.
For allied technology firms the problem is worse. They arrive cold into a regulatory landscape they don't speak — ITAR, FOCI, CFIUS, DSGL, DISP — and the partners who could shorten the entry path are illegible without a local network.
Three Layers, One Data Spine
Intelligence first. Marketplace second. Capture workflow on top.
Intelligence
SAM.gov, FPDS, GAO, OFAC, Congress.gov, agency forecasts, CISA, NIST, GDELT, allied defense MoDs, ReliefWeb, USGS, FIRMS, OpenSky, ACLED, Polymarket, Federal Register, executive orders, congressional hearings — 2,300+ procurement-relevant signals indexed every week.
- Editorial Assessments. Claude Haiku 4.5 clusters raw signals into situation reports, CII deltas, forecasts, and briefs. Confidence-rated, source-cited, country-tagged. ~1,080 assessments in the index.
- Country Instability Index. A custom composite per country, driving risk overlays on the opportunity panel and the allied-supplier directory.
- Opportunity Matching. Every new opportunity is scored against the user's profile across five signals (NAICS overlap, tech-keyword overlap, certifications vs. set-aside, agency history, past-performance keywords). LLM-generated rationale must cite at least two signals that actually fired.
- Daily Brief. Free, public, 6 AM Eastern.
Marketplace
A two-sided directory of the people who close federal deals. All three search surfaces share the same fit-scoring engine — same algorithm, per-entity filter chips.
Capture
When a contractor moves from "I'm watching" to "I'm pursuing", the workflow takes over.
- Pipeline. Drag-and-drop kanban — Identified, Qualified, Capture, Proposal, Submitted — with optimistic mutations and rollback.
- Capture Brief. AI-generated bid/no-bid analysis pulling from the opportunity, the company's profile, and the match intelligence.
- Capability Statement. Auto-fills from a canonical CompanyMasterData entity — single source of truth across profile, past performance, and cap statement.
- Past Performance. Structured contract records that auto-sync into the profile summary feeding the match scorer.
- Engagements. Provider leads and lobbyist engagements, both linked back to active opportunities.
- Teaming & Subcontracting. Four-signal match (complementary NAICS, size-standard pair, shared agency, complementary tech). Subcontracting auto-detects role and shows the opposite side.
The Layer Nobody Else Indexes
Allied entry is regulated by a stack of overlapping regimes — US, UK, Australia, NATO — that no general procurement tool tracks together. Bridger does.
This is the layer that makes allied entry tractable. It is also the structural reason "built first for allied technology firms" leads every audience-facing surface.
Three Portals, One Platform
Each portal has its own auth subsystem and onboarding wizard. They share the same intelligence stack.
Contractors
Allied-entry firms (priority track) and US capture-side contractors. Pipeline, capture briefs, cap statements, past performance, teaming, and the full intelligence layer.
Providers
C3PAOs, proposal writers, incorporation specialists, manufacturers, channel sales. Inbound leads, services, pipeline, billing, plus the contractor and tech-scout directories.
Lobbyists
Government-relations firms by specialty. Engagements, intel, appropriations, providers, contractors, billing.
Bridger vs. Most Procurement Tools
Open Bridger
Production at bridger.levenhall.com. Free daily brief at 6 AM Eastern. Scout tier free; Pathfinder, Pathfinder Pro, and Enterprise unlock proposal-tier reasoning and the full intelligence stack.