Does SubSignal check my registration for me?

No. SAM.gov's public bulk entity extract is closed and personal API keys are limited to roughly ten requests a day, so the expiry date you enter is the date used. Always confirm it against your real entity record.

Is the SAM.gov renewal alert free?

Yes, permanently, with no account and no card. Renewing on sam.gov is also free and always has been.

SubSignal / SAM.gov renewal alerts

Never let your SAM.gov registration lapse

Q: What happens if my SAM.gov registration lapses?

You become ineligible for award, you stop appearing when contracting officers search for vendors, and primes looking for subcontractors cannot find you. Registrations expire exactly 365 days after activation.

Tell us the date once. We email you at 90, 60, 30, 14, 7, 3 and 1 days out, and again on the day it expires. It's free, there's no account, and there's nothing to install.

A SAM.gov registration expires exactly 365 days after activation — not at the end of the year, and not on a date you are likely to remember. If it lapses you are ineligible for award, you stop appearing when contracting officers search for vendors, and primes looking for subcontractors cannot find you. It does not matter how good the bid was.

Get the warnings

Where to find the date: sign in at sam.gov → Workspace → Entity Management → open your entity. The expiration date is on the entity record. If you would rather not give us an email address at all, the dashboard does the same countdown entirely inside your own browser.

What this is, exactly

You give us one dateThe expiry date from your own entity record, plus an email address. Nothing else is required — no UEI, no company name, no card.
We remember itWe do not read anything from SAM.gov. We cannot: the public bulk entity extract was closed and personal API keys are capped at about ten requests a day. Remembering the date is the service, because forgetting is the whole problem.
You get warned seven times, then once more90, 60, 30, 14, 7, 3 and 1 days out, and again if it lapses. Each email says the date, why it matters and exactly where to click on sam.gov.
One click stops itEvery email carries an unsubscribe link. Nothing is sold, nothing is shared, and we never email on anyone else's behalf.

Questions people actually ask

Is this really free?

Yes, permanently. It costs us nothing to send you eight emails a year, and a company that never lapses is a company that can actually use the rest of the site. What we sell is the watchlist — awards, notices and grants in your codes, pushed to you. This is not a trial of that.

Do you check my registration for me?

No, and any tool that says it does for free is worth a second look. SAM.gov's public bulk entity extract is closed and personal API keys are rate-limited to roughly ten calls a day. The date you give us is the date we use, so confirm it against your real entity record.

What if I renew early, or the date changes?

Submit the form again with the new date. It replaces the old one and the warning schedule starts over, so you get the full set again next year.

Why do you want my email at all?

Because a countdown you have to open is not a warning. The dashboard counts down in your browser and stores nothing anywhere — but it only helps on the days you happen to look, and the people who lapse are exactly the people who are not looking.

Will you email me about anything else?

Not on this list. These are renewal warnings only. If you want the three signals as well, that's the watchlist, and you ask for it separately.

Renewing is free on sam.gov and always has been. If anyone charges you a fee to renew, or contacts you claiming your registration needs paid help, that is not SAM.gov and it is not us. Renew yourself at sam.gov.