GovCon AI Cookbook

Copy-paste recipes for GovCon work with your AI agent and G2X, each with the prompt and a real answer it gets you.

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What's in the cookbook
Before you start
For contractors
For government teams

What's in the cookbook

Each recipe is one GovCon task you can hand to your AI agent: the prompt to paste and what it gets you, shown with a real answer captured from the live GovCon MCP. Recipes for contractors cover finding work, researching awards and companies, teaming and pricing. Recipes for government teams cover market research and acquisition planning.

Before you start

Connect your AI agent to G2X with Connect your AI agent. Then paste any prompt below into your agent.

The GovCon MCP is included on every G2X plan, from Community Edition through Enterprise.

For contractors

Find opportunities

Find open opportunities by NAICS code: Ask your AI agent for open federal opportunities under one NAICS code and get titles, types, agencies, set-asides and due dates with G2X record links.
Find small business set-aside opportunities: Ask your AI agent for open federal opportunities in your NAICS code that list a small business set-aside, with agency, type and response deadline.
Find sources sought opportunities at one agency: Ask your AI agent for open sources sought opportunities from one agency, with NAICS codes, solicitation numbers and due dates, so you can answer early.
Find state and local bids: Ask your AI agent for open state and local bid opportunities by work type, with the issuing agency, deadline and the portal link where the bid is posted.
Find SBIR and STTR topics: Ask your AI agent for SBIR and STTR topics in a technology area, with the agency, topic number, deadline and the SBIR.gov topic page for each.
Scan agency procurement forecasts: Ask your AI agent for planned federal buys by NAICS code and fiscal year, with anticipated award dates, set-asides, estimated values and incumbents.
Find DIBBS parts opportunities by NSN: Ask your AI agent to find a National Stock Number from an item name, read what the item is, and open the DIBBS opportunity search for that part.
Find GovCon events and industry days: Ask your AI agent for upcoming industry days, conferences and agency events, with dates, locations and organizers, so you know where to meet buyers.
Read an event in detail: Open one GovCon event from your AI agent to see its dates, location, organizer, summary and registration link before you decide to attend.

Read and qualify a solicitation

Read the documents on a federal solicitation: Ask your AI agent to list the solicitation, attachments and links filed on a federal opportunity, and see which ones it can read for you.
Pull text from a solicitation attachment: Ask your AI agent to read one solicitation attachment and quote its scope, set-aside and amendment dates exactly, so you can rely on exact wording.
Prepare solicitation documents for review: Have your AI agent get one active solicitation's documents ready and tell you which can be read now, so you know what to analyze before you commit time.
Summarize a solicitation: Have your AI agent start a requirements summary for one active solicitation, covering what offerors must do, submit or meet, with sources.
Read a compliance matrix for a solicitation: Ask your AI agent for the compliance matrix on a federal solicitation, see each requirement's status, or learn that none exists yet.

Research awards and recompetes

Find contracts expiring next year: List federal contracts whose period of performance ends in a date window, by agency and NAICS code, so you can plan capture before the recompete.
Build a recompete list: List contracts ending in the next 12 months for a NAICS code, each with the open opportunities that could be its recompete.
Find recompetes at one agency office: Check one contracting office for contracts ending within a year in your NAICS code, with the open opportunities that could be their recompetes.
Research the incumbent on a recompete: Pull an incumbent contractor's federal award history and held contract vehicles by UEI, so you know who you are up against before you bid.
Read a contract award record: Open one known federal contract award and read the awardee, agency, key dates and dollar figures, with what each amount means.
Find awards by PSC code: List federal contract awards that carry one product or service code, with the awardee, dates and dollars, and see how many match before you narrow.
Track task orders on a vehicle: See how many task orders sit under one IDV award, how many dollars were obligated on them, and review the orders with dates and amounts.
Find the contract vehicles an agency uses: Check how a contract vehicle is used, holders on record, task orders and dollars obligated, and pick the right vehicle when a name fits several.
See how an agency spends in your NAICS code: See how one agency's contract dollars and award counts in a NAICS code split by set-aside type for a fiscal year, with one plain-language question.
Find the offices buying your service: See which contracting offices obligated the most money under your NAICS code, so you know which buyers to research and meet first.

Research companies and find partners

Find companies by capability and NAICS: Search the G2X company directory by name or UEI, then read each firm's primary NAICS, state and federal award count to build a teaming shortlist.
Find teaming partners with a certification: See which potential teaming partners in one NAICS hold the most contracts, with obligated dollars and any certifications on record.
Find subcontractors for a recompete: Build a shortlist of subcontractor and teaming candidates for a recompete, with contract counts, obligated dollars and SBA certifications.
Find 8(a) and HUBZone firms in a state: Search the company directory for firms with 8(a) or HUBZone in their name, narrow them by state, then confirm each certification before you team.
Check a company's socioeconomic status: Look up a company's socioeconomic certifications by UEI, such as 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB and WOSB, and see what G2X can and cannot confirm.
Review a company's contract history: See a company's prime contract and IDV counts, the contract vehicles it holds and their dates before you team with it or bid against it.
Read a company's public web profile: Read a company's public page, website, follower count and recent posts, and treat what it says as claims to check against award records.
Watch a company's public signals: Check public web and news signals for a company, such as acquisitions and teaming news, each with its source link, before a call or a bid decision.
Size up a rival before you bid: Combine a rival's contract history with its public signals to see its contract vehicles, issuing agencies and positioning before you decide to bid.

Price a bid

Benchmark labor rates for a bid: Get the spread of published ceiling rates for one labor category, from lowest to highest with the median and quartiles, before you price a bid.
See a company's published labor rates: Pull one company's published ceiling rates by its UEI, with labor category, education, experience, worksite and vehicle, to size up a rival or a partner.
Find labor categories for a role: Search a role in plain words, such as cloud engineer, and see which published labor category titles match, with each ceiling rate per hour.

Ask anything

Search across G2X records: Search G2X by keyword for contract vehicles, awards, forecasts and more, and get a short list of matches with links to the G2X records.
Find grants and SBIR topics: Search SBIR and STTR topics and federal grant opportunities by technology area with your AI agent, and get agencies, deadlines and record links.
Ask a data question in plain English: Ask a procurement spending question in everyday words and get a ranked answer from your AI agent, then check the numbers yourself.

For government teams

Recipes for contracting officers and specialists, program offices, and market research and acquisition planning staff. The evidence informs your decision; it doesn't make it.

Find capable small businesses for market research: Build a first list of candidate firms from the G2X company directory, with primary NAICS code, state and federal award history, for market research.
Apply the rule of two with market data: Gather candidate firms and recorded socioeconomic status into one evidence table for a rule of two review. The decision stays with the contracting officer.
Check prior awards for a similar requirement: Search federal contract awards by NAICS code and wording to see how comparable work was awarded, set aside and funded, for your acquisition plan.
Build an IGCE with labor rate benchmarks: Pull published per-hour ceiling rate statistics for a labor category to inform the labor lines of an independent government cost estimate.
Choose a contract vehicle from usage data: See how a multiple-award vehicle is used, with contract holders, task orders and dollars obligated, before you pick an ordering vehicle.
Verify a vendor's socioeconomic status: Read the socioeconomic certifications on record for a vendor by UEI, as a quick first look before you confirm status in the official records.
Find sources for a national stock number: Identify the item behind a national stock number and the part numbers and catalog holders on record, as a starting point for supply market research.
Review a vendor's federal award history: See a vendor's prime award counts, indefinite-delivery contracts held and recent awards by UEI, as one input to a past performance review.
Plan an industry day with event data: Search the G2X events calendar for upcoming industry days, so you can pick a date that avoids conflicts and see how other offices run theirs.
See what similar offices bought: See which contracting offices buy services under your NAICS code, then read one office's awards to compare scope, period and dollars with your plan.

What's in the cookbook

For contractors

Find open opportunities by NAICS code: Ask your AI agent for open federal opportunities under one NAICS code and get titles, types, agencies, set-asides and due dates with G2X record links.

Find small business set-aside opportunities: Ask your AI agent for open federal opportunities in your NAICS code that list a small business set-aside, with agency, type and response deadline.

Find sources sought opportunities at one agency: Ask your AI agent for open sources sought opportunities from one agency, with NAICS codes, solicitation numbers and due dates, so you can answer early.

Find state and local bids: Ask your AI agent for open state and local bid opportunities by work type, with the issuing agency, deadline and the portal link where the bid is posted.

Find SBIR and STTR topics: Ask your AI agent for SBIR and STTR topics in a technology area, with the agency, topic number, deadline and the SBIR.gov topic page for each.

Scan agency procurement forecasts: Ask your AI agent for planned federal buys by NAICS code and fiscal year, with anticipated award dates, set-asides, estimated values and incumbents.

Find DIBBS parts opportunities by NSN: Ask your AI agent to find a National Stock Number from an item name, read what the item is, and open the DIBBS opportunity search for that part.

Find GovCon events and industry days: Ask your AI agent for upcoming industry days, conferences and agency events, with dates, locations and organizers, so you know where to meet buyers.

Read an event in detail: Open one GovCon event from your AI agent to see its dates, location, organizer, summary and registration link before you decide to attend.

Read the documents on a federal solicitation: Ask your AI agent to list the solicitation, attachments and links filed on a federal opportunity, and see which ones it can read for you.

Pull text from a solicitation attachment: Ask your AI agent to read one solicitation attachment and quote its scope, set-aside and amendment dates exactly, so you can rely on exact wording.

Prepare solicitation documents for review: Have your AI agent get one active solicitation's documents ready and tell you which can be read now, so you know what to analyze before you commit time.

Summarize a solicitation: Have your AI agent start a requirements summary for one active solicitation, covering what offerors must do, submit or meet, with sources.

Read a compliance matrix for a solicitation: Ask your AI agent for the compliance matrix on a federal solicitation, see each requirement's status, or learn that none exists yet.

Find contracts expiring next year: List federal contracts whose period of performance ends in a date window, by agency and NAICS code, so you can plan capture before the recompete.

Build a recompete list: List contracts ending in the next 12 months for a NAICS code, each with the open opportunities that could be its recompete.

Find recompetes at one agency office: Check one contracting office for contracts ending within a year in your NAICS code, with the open opportunities that could be their recompetes.

Research the incumbent on a recompete: Pull an incumbent contractor's federal award history and held contract vehicles by UEI, so you know who you are up against before you bid.

Read a contract award record: Open one known federal contract award and read the awardee, agency, key dates and dollar figures, with what each amount means.

Find awards by PSC code: List federal contract awards that carry one product or service code, with the awardee, dates and dollars, and see how many match before you narrow.

Track task orders on a vehicle: See how many task orders sit under one IDV award, how many dollars were obligated on them, and review the orders with dates and amounts.

Find the contract vehicles an agency uses: Check how a contract vehicle is used, holders on record, task orders and dollars obligated, and pick the right vehicle when a name fits several.

See how an agency spends in your NAICS code: See how one agency's contract dollars and award counts in a NAICS code split by set-aside type for a fiscal year, with one plain-language question.

Find the offices buying your service: See which contracting offices obligated the most money under your NAICS code, so you know which buyers to research and meet first.

Find companies by capability and NAICS: Search the G2X company directory by name or UEI, then read each firm's primary NAICS, state and federal award count to build a teaming shortlist.

Find teaming partners with a certification: See which potential teaming partners in one NAICS hold the most contracts, with obligated dollars and any certifications on record.

Find subcontractors for a recompete: Build a shortlist of subcontractor and teaming candidates for a recompete, with contract counts, obligated dollars and SBA certifications.

Find 8(a) and HUBZone firms in a state: Search the company directory for firms with 8(a) or HUBZone in their name, narrow them by state, then confirm each certification before you team.

Check a company's socioeconomic status: Look up a company's socioeconomic certifications by UEI, such as 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB and WOSB, and see what G2X can and cannot confirm.

Review a company's contract history: See a company's prime contract and IDV counts, the contract vehicles it holds and their dates before you team with it or bid against it.

Read a company's public web profile: Read a company's public page, website, follower count and recent posts, and treat what it says as claims to check against award records.

Watch a company's public signals: Check public web and news signals for a company, such as acquisitions and teaming news, each with its source link, before a call or a bid decision.

Size up a rival before you bid: Combine a rival's contract history with its public signals to see its contract vehicles, issuing agencies and positioning before you decide to bid.

Benchmark labor rates for a bid: Get the spread of published ceiling rates for one labor category, from lowest to highest with the median and quartiles, before you price a bid.

See a company's published labor rates: Pull one company's published ceiling rates by its UEI, with labor category, education, experience, worksite and vehicle, to size up a rival or a partner.

Find labor categories for a role: Search a role in plain words, such as cloud engineer, and see which published labor category titles match, with each ceiling rate per hour.

Search across G2X records: Search G2X by keyword for contract vehicles, awards, forecasts and more, and get a short list of matches with links to the G2X records.

Find grants and SBIR topics: Search SBIR and STTR topics and federal grant opportunities by technology area with your AI agent, and get agencies, deadlines and record links.

Ask a data question in plain English: Ask a procurement spending question in everyday words and get a ranked answer from your AI agent, then check the numbers yourself.

For government teams

Recipes for contracting officers and specialists, program offices, and market research and acquisition planning staff. The evidence informs your decision; it doesn't make it.

Find capable small businesses for market research: Build a first list of candidate firms from the G2X company directory, with primary NAICS code, state and federal award history, for market research.

Apply the rule of two with market data: Gather candidate firms and recorded socioeconomic status into one evidence table for a rule of two review. The decision stays with the contracting officer.

Check prior awards for a similar requirement: Search federal contract awards by NAICS code and wording to see how comparable work was awarded, set aside and funded, for your acquisition plan.

Build an IGCE with labor rate benchmarks: Pull published per-hour ceiling rate statistics for a labor category to inform the labor lines of an independent government cost estimate.

Choose a contract vehicle from usage data: See how a multiple-award vehicle is used, with contract holders, task orders and dollars obligated, before you pick an ordering vehicle.

Verify a vendor's socioeconomic status: Read the socioeconomic certifications on record for a vendor by UEI, as a quick first look before you confirm status in the official records.

Find sources for a national stock number: Identify the item behind a national stock number and the part numbers and catalog holders on record, as a starting point for supply market research.

Review a vendor's federal award history: See a vendor's prime award counts, indefinite-delivery contracts held and recent awards by UEI, as one input to a past performance review.

Plan an industry day with event data: Search the G2X events calendar for upcoming industry days, so you can pick a date that avoids conflicts and see how other offices run theirs.

See what similar offices bought: See which contracting offices buy services under your NAICS code, then read one office's awards to compare scope, period and dollars with your plan.