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Beyond Search: How RFP Planner's Opportunity Match Finds the Right Solicitations

Written by Ruben Quinones on Aug. 4, 2026, 7:05 a.m.

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Manually checking SAM.gov and a state procurement portal every day is a real job by itself, and it's one that produces nothing except a slightly-more-informed inbox. Opportunity Match exists to remove the search entirely and hand you a curated, matched result instead.

Automatic Sync, Every Six Hours

RFP Planner pulls new solicitations from SAM.gov and the Texas ESBD automatically, every six hours, with no manual searching required. New opportunities show up in your pipeline on their own schedule, not whenever someone remembers to go looking.

Matched to Your Business, Not Just Any Business

Opportunities are auto-matched to your organization's pipeline based on the NAICS and NIGP codes and keywords you configure once. Set it up a single time, and every future sync checks new solicitations against criteria that actually reflect what your company does.

The Full Pool Is Still There If You Want It

Auto-matching narrows the field, but it doesn't have to be the only way in. The Opportunity Match page lets you browse or search the entire opportunity pool, not just what matched, with filters for status, keyword, and NAICS, plus "Add to Pipeline" and "match more like this" on any listing. If your matching criteria are too narrow, or you're curious about something adjacent to your usual scope, the whole pool stays one filter away.

Plain-Language Summaries of Dense Solicitations

Government solicitations are not written for a fast read. AI-generated plain-language summaries let you gauge whether an opportunity is worth pursuing without reading the full raw notice first, so you can save the deep read for the RFPs that clear that first bar.

Sync Stats, and the Real Range of Solicitation Types

At-a-glance stats show what's matched today, in the last 7 days, and in the last 30 days, so you always know whether your criteria are actually surfacing a reasonable flow of opportunities. The sync itself handles the full range of solicitation types — Solicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Sources Sought, Pre-solicitation, Special Notice, Award Notice, and more — along with set-aside metadata and place-of-performance data, so the information that determines whether an opportunity is even worth opening is there before you click into it.

The difference shows up clearest over a normal week. Without Opportunity Match, finding relevant solicitations means logging into SAM.gov and a state portal separately, running searches by hand, and re-checking both on some rough schedule you're trying to remember to keep. With it, the relevant opportunities are already sitting in your pipeline or your matched results when you open RFP Planner on a Monday morning, filtered down to your actual NAICS codes instead of the entire universe of federal and state solicitations. The manual search work doesn't get faster, it gets removed entirely.

Set your NAICS and NIGP codes up once, and every sync afterward reflects that same configuration automatically, so refining your criteria is a five-minute adjustment rather than a process you have to repeat from scratch. Opportunity Match is available starting at the Opportunity Sync tier of our platform. Get in touch if you want to see it running against your own NAICS codes before you commit to anything.

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