Customer guide · ~10 min read

How to use FedRange

Find federal opportunities, see what comparable awards paid, and draft a citation-grounded proposal — without leaving the browser. This guide walks through the whole loop, screen by screen.

1. Welcome

FedRange does three things, in this order:

  1. Finds federal opportunities under the NAICS codes you care about (15 across 4 service tracks).
  2. Prices them — pulling 10 comparable awards from USASpending so you see the real interquartile bid range.
  3. Drafts the five proposal sections with inline [E1]-style citations back to the source.
What this guide is not.
A replacement for capture managers, proposal writers, or contracting officers. Treat every output as a strong starting draft you review and edit before submitting.

2. Sign up & first run

  1. Go to fedrange.com/auth/signup and create an account with your work email.
  2. Click the verification link Resend sends to your inbox.
  3. Complete the 3-step onboarding: Track → NAICS focus → Set-asides.
  4. Land on /search with your saved-search digest pre-populated.

3. Find an opportunity

Your /search page lists every active solicitation that matches your tracks, sorted by response deadline.

The FedRange search page with cached opportunities, the daily NAICS digest, the paste-a-SAM-URL import box, and the first opportunity card.
Figure 3. The /search page.

4. Paste a SAM.gov URL

If a teammate sends you a specific solicitation that hasn't shown up in your daily digest yet, paste its SAM.gov URL or notice ID into the import box.

5. Run the analysis

On the opportunity page, hit the indigo Run analysis button. First click takes ~60s; cached forever after.

The Altoona VAMC analysis panel with rendered Markdown narrative, Comp 3/4/5 references, and a $7.0M median highlight.
Figure 5. Analysis hero — Markdown narrative with comp references and median highlighted.

6. Read the pricing distribution

Five numbers in order: minimum, P25, median, P75, maximum across 10 comparable awards.

Pricing distribution showing min, P25, median, P75, max.
Figure 6. Pricing distribution.
How to read this.
Bid below P25 if you have a real cost advantage. Bid at the median to be safe. Bid above P75 only if you have unique scope.

Comparable awards

Top comparable awards table.
Figure 7. Top comparable awards.

7. The five draft sections

Five tabs under Draft proposal sections: Executive, Technical, Management, Past Perf, Pricing.

Executive Summary tab.
8a. Executive Summary.
Technical Approach tab.
8b. Technical Approach.
Management Approach tab.
8c. Management Approach.
Past Performance tab with Grounding Gap Notice.
8d. Past Performance — note the Grounding Gap Notice.
Pricing Narrative tab.
8e. Pricing Narrative.
Past Performance & the Grounding Gap Notice.
If our corpus doesn't contain proposals close enough to the opportunity, the Past Perf tab will say so explicitly — by name — instead of fabricating one. Read it as a flag to attach your own past-performance writeups before submitting.

8. Citations & the GROUNDED IN footer

Each section ends in a GROUNDED IN footer. Click any inline [E1] token and the page scrolls to (and flashes) the matching chip.

GROUNDED IN footer with E1 citation chip and thumbs feedback.
Figure 9. GROUNDED IN footer with thumbs feedback.

Why the thumbs matter

Your votes feed corpus_helpfulness and re-weight retrieval. Three votes is the minimum threshold before a corpus entry's score moves.

9. Export to Word or Google Docs

  1. Click Copy in the section tab.
  2. Paste into Word, Google Docs, or any rich-text editor.
  3. Replace [E1] tokens with footnotes if your evaluators expect formal citation style.

10. Daily alerts

  1. Run a filtered search.
  2. Click Save search and choose "Email me when new matches appear."
  3. Pause or delete from /account → Saved searches.

FAQ

How fresh is the data?
SAM.gov bulk feed re-syncs every 24h at 2am ET. On-demand imports are real-time.
Where do comparable awards come from?
USASpending.gov + agency reading rooms. 1,536-dim vector cosine match.
How accurate is the pricing?
For NAICS with ≥10 awards in 5 years, median is within ±15% of winning bid ~80% of the time.
Cost per analysis?
~$0.08 in API fees, absorbed by your subscription. Solo $99/mo: 50 analyses. Team $299/mo (5 seats): 200.

Troubleshooting

Still stuck?
Email support@fedrange.com. Replies within one business day, 9am–6pm ET, Mon–Fri.