SubSignal / Pricing
The three boards are free and always will be — every award, notice and grant we track is public record and you can read all of it without an account. You pay for one thing: the ones in your codes, found for you, the day they land.
Right now there are 160 awards carrying a subcontracting obligation, 739 open sources sought notices and 161 grants open to small businesses on this site. A watchlist is the same data, filtered to you and pushed, instead of three pages you have to remember to check.
Annual is twelve months for the price of ten — $1,490 for a Watchlist, $3,990 for a Team plan. Most federal contractors budget annually, so this is usually the easier one to get signed off.
A SAM.gov registration expires exactly 365 days after activation — not on a calendar year. If it lapses you are ineligible for award, invisible to contracting officers, and unreachable by primes looking for subcontractors. It doesn't matter how good the bid was.
SAM.gov's own guidance is to log in and check each entity by hand. Put your expiry date in the dashboard once and it counts down for you, with warnings from 90 days out. It's free, there's no account, and the date never leaves your browser.
| Tool | Price | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Deltek GovWin | $12k–42k/yr | Contracts. Priced for companies with a real intelligence budget. |
| Instrumentl | $299–999/mo | Grants only. |
| A grant writer | $3k–15k | Per proposal. Doesn't find you anything. |
| Proposal-writing AI tools | $10–75/mo | Helps you write. Assumes you already found it. |
| SubSignal Watchlist | $149/mo | All three signals. Finding, not writing. |
The expensive tools do one signal each and are priced for companies with a procurement department. The cheap tools help you write a bid you already found. Nobody covers the middle, which is finding the thing in the first place — across contracts, pre-solicitations and grants at once, for a company that qualifies for all three with the same SAM.gov registration.
No. Every signal on the paid plan is visible for free on this site — it's public record and it would be strange to hide it. What you're buying is not access, it's not having to check.
By email, deliberately. Send your NAICS codes and states, and I'll reply telling you what has actually landed in those codes recently — before you pay anything. If your codes have been quiet, I'll say so rather than take the money.
You do. SubSignal tells you which prime just won work you can sub under, where they're registered, and the job title to ask for. It never contacts anyone on your behalf and never sells your details.
No. An award carrying a subcontracting plan is an opportunity, not a guarantee. A posted notice or grant is a chance to compete, not an offer of funding. Always confirm deadlines against the official notice.
Any time, by replying to any email. No contract, no notice period.