About
Federal work shouldn't depend on who has time to search for it.
The government posts thousands of contract notices every week. Many are reserved for small businesses, but finding the ones that fit your trade means searching SAM.gov regularly, and most small firms are too busy doing the work to do that.
The Set-Aside does the searching. When a new contract set aside for small businesses is posted that matches your business, it sends you a short email, with a link to the official notice. On days with no match, it sends nothing.
I'm Johan Struijk, the person behind The Set-Aside. I started it because federal agencies reserve a lot of work for small businesses, but the listings sit in one very large database, and a small firm shouldn't need a free afternoon every week to find the few that fit. I'd rather do that search once, carefully, and send the result to everyone it helps.
I'm not a government agency and I'm not affiliated with the SBA or SAM.gov. I read the public listings, and every listing in an alert links back to the official notice.
Johan Struijk
Editor, The Set-Aside
Reply to any alert or write to hello@thesetaside.com. It comes straight to me.
How each alert is made
Step 1
Collect
Every day the new notices are pulled from SAM.gov's public data, the official site where agencies post contract opportunities.
Step 2
Sort
Notices are kept only if they're set aside for small businesses, still have time to respond, and are the newest version after any amendment. Each is checked against the NAICS codes on your profile, your certifications and your state.
Step 3
Send
If something new fits your business, you get one short email that day, soonest deadline first. You never get the same contract twice.
What we never do
Small businesses that register with the government get a lot of email from people pretending to be official. To be clear about who we are:
- We are not a government agency and are not affiliated with the SBA or SAM.gov.
- We never ask for your SAM.gov login, tax documents or capability statement.
- We never charge for registration, certification or anything the government provides for free.
- We never sell or share your email address.
Get alerts for your business
Free. Only when something matches.