Comparisons · Claims verified June 2026
JobsiteBids vs. SAM.gov
SAM.gov is the federal government's official, free system of record: every federal solicitation posts there, registration happens there, and wage determinations live there. You will use SAM.gov no matter what else you buy — including with JobsiteBids, which is built on the same SAM.gov data.
The comparison isn't whether to use SAM.gov; it's whether SAM.gov's own search and alert tools are enough to run a bid pipeline on. They give you everything — unparsed, unranked, and one keyword hit at a time.
| Capability | SAM.gov | JobsiteBids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free (official government system) | $99–$399/mo after a 14-day free trial |
| Coverage | All federal opportunities — the source of record | Federal (from SAM.gov) + a growing set of state & local portals |
| Alerts | Saved searches email every keyword/NAICS hit | 6 AM digest of strong matches only, ranked by a 0–99 score |
| Attachments | Raw PDF downloads — you read the packet | Every attachment AI-parsed into fields: bonds, prevailing wage, liquidated damages, licensing, insurance, key dates |
| Fit ranking | None — results are listings, not matches | Scored against your NAICS codes, service area, and bid size, with set-aside work boosted |
| Pipeline tracking | None (follow feature only) | Shared Watching → Bidding → Submitted → Won/Lost board |
| Registration & bid submission | Yes — entity registration and the official award process | No — you still register and submit through SAM.gov |
Capabilities as described in each product's public materials as of June 2026; offerings change — verify specifics with the vendor.
When SAM.gov is the better choice
- It's free, official, and complete — if your trade has low federal volume or you bid a handful of jobs a year, disciplined SAM.gov saved searches may genuinely be enough.
- It's the system of record: registration, reps & certs, wage determinations, and the actual award all happen there regardless of what sits on top.
The bottom line
JobsiteBids is for shops where the SAM.gov firehose has a real cost: an estimator burning an hour a day skimming keyword hits and opening 14-PDF packets to find one job worth pricing. We start from the same public data, read the packets, and rank the matches — the $99/mo question is whether that hour is worth more than $5 a day to your shop.
Honest scope note: SAM.gov covers everything federal; so do we, because that's our source. But SAM.gov stops at federal — we go further, adding a growing set of state and local portals on top of the federal feed.