About

The most baffling new federal contracting posting on SAM.gov each week, plus every other one that looked wrong, found by Claude, with every quote checked against the documents.

How it works

Every day, every new solicitation, request for quotes, request for information (sources sought) and presolicitation first posted to SAM.gov the day before is read by Claude from its posting text. The ones that look wrong are read again with their attached documents. A posting is flagged when a capable company could not tell what is wrong, when the documents contradict themselves, contain text from a different purchase or leftover drafting notes, ask for something no new bidder could do, or give too little time to respond for what is being bought.

What is checked

Every quote is checked by code against the file it names, and given its page number.
A contradiction is shown only with both sides quoted.
Every explanation and headline is checked by a second, separate Claude reading of the full documents, told to reject anything they do not plainly show. Anything that fails is left out, never shown in a weaker form.
Before the weekly page is published, the posting is checked live on SAM.gov: cancelled postings are skipped, and amended ones have their quotes re-checked against the new version.
Dates, deadlines, agencies and solicitation numbers come straight from the SAM.gov record. The days to respond are counted from the first time the solicitation was posted, so an amendment does not look rushed.

Limits

“Baffling” is a judgment about the documents as posted, not about the people who wrote them.
Spreadsheets, old Word files, zip files and links to other sites are not read; Claude is told which ones it could not see and may not call something missing that could be in them.
A posting that left SAM.gov's daily public file before it was read is missed.
Claude sometimes declines to rate a posting; those are counted, not shown.

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