Federal Compass is a business development system. GoNoGo is one decision inside it.
Federal Compass covers sourcing, pipeline, market research, teaming and CRM for federal contractors. This page explains the scope, what is known about pricing, and when you need less than that.
GoNoGo is a different kind of tool. It is a mobile-first federal contracting workflow app, built by ContractIQ, that helps a contractor build a business entity profile in seconds, get curated SAM.gov results and editable saved searches, and decide Go, Hold, or No-Go on the opportunities already in front of them. When a pursuit needs a human, ContractIQ can plug in behind the app.
Free to start, with daily usage credits.
Built by ContractIQ, backed by experienced federal contracting professionals.
Federal Compass vs GoNoGo at a glance
- What it is
- Business development system with CRM, pipeline and teaming
- Coverage
- Federal opportunity sourcing, state and local opportunities and market intelligence
- Pricing
- Not published. Demo or sales contact required
- See it before talking to sales
- No
- Built for
- Federal contractors managing a pipeline
- What it is
- Mobile workflow for SAM.gov opportunity triage: entity profile, curated results, saved searches, Go, Hold, and No-Go decisions and pipeline
- Coverage
- Launching with SAM.gov federal opportunities first, then expanding into additional sources as GoNoGo grows
- Pricing
- Free to start, with daily usage credits
- See it before talking to sales
- Yes
- Built for
- New, small, growing and established contractors who own the pursuit decision
What is Federal Compass?
Federal Compass is a SaaS platform for federal business development. It covers opportunity sourcing from what it calls the most comprehensive opportunity database for the federal market, pipeline and task order management, market research, partner identification and teaming, CRM built for federal contracting, business process automation, and an AI layer it calls Wayfinder. Its site cites more than 8,000 federal contractors and suppliers.
Federal Compass and GoNoGo are aimed at different moments
Federal Compass is a system of record for business development. Its value comes from everything living in one place: the pipeline, the partners, the task orders, the research.
Systems of record earn their keep when there is enough activity to record and more than one person recording it. That is when the CRM stops being data entry and starts being memory.
GoNoGo does not try to be that. It handles the moment before anything gets recorded: whether this opportunity earns a place in your pipeline at all.
Why starting with SAM.gov is a strength
GoNoGo launches with SAM.gov federal opportunities because that is the right place to solve the daily decision problem first. You can create an entity profile, see curated federal matches, adjust saved searches, decide Go, Hold, or No-Go and track the pipeline without standing up a full BD system. As GoNoGo grows it expands into additional sources while keeping the same profile-driven decision workflow.
How much does Federal Compass cost?
Federal Compass does not publish prices. The site directs you to contact sales.
GoNoGo is free to start, with daily usage credits, so you can keep building your entity profile, reviewing opportunities and refining your pipeline before committing more time or money.
Where GoNoGo fits
GoNoGo is a workflow, not a filter. You build an entity profile, and that profile turns into saved searches and curated SAM.gov results you can edit at any time. From there you review each notice against how your company actually works, mark it Go, Hold, or No-Go, and keep the reasoning attached to the opportunity so the pipeline holds together.
The part that matters over time is that it learns. Your searches, the notices you open, the decisions you make and what moves through your pipeline build a clearer picture of what your company should see next.
If teaming and task order management are where your work actually lives, Federal Compass is built around that.
Do more on your own, bring in ContractIQ where it is needed
GoNoGo helps you handle more of the opportunity review yourself. ContractIQ is the professional support layer behind it, for the work that is too technical, too time-consuming or too high-risk to guess on: solicitation review, Go/No-Go decisions on a specific pursuit, compliance matrix development, pricing strategy, proposal review, teaming questions, and fractional contracting office support.
The point is not to push every contractor into a large engagement. It is to plug in where help is actually needed, from a one-time review to ongoing monthly support. The judgment stays with your team.
What Federal Compass does well
Teaming and partner identification gets less attention than it deserves in this category, and Federal Compass treats it as a first-class feature. Small contractors sub-contract and team far more than the tooling usually reflects, so having partner search next to the pipeline saves a step.
When Federal Compass is the right tool
When you need a CRM built for federal work rather than a generic one bent into shape, when task order management matters, and when teaming is part of how you win.
When GoNoGo fits better
When there is no pipeline to manage yet, or when the pipeline is short enough to hold in your head and the real problem is deciding what goes into it.
Not just for contractors starting out
GoNoGo can be a starting point for a company entering federal work, but it is also a scale-back option for teams that have used heavier tools or outsourced services and want more autonomy and day-to-day control. Use the software for the work your team can handle in-house. Put the savings back into the business, or into targeted ContractIQ support only where you actually need it.
Other Federal Compass alternatives, and where GoNoGo sits
This list is written by one of the alternatives. Judge it on whether the categories below hold up. The split by job:
The free baseline.
SAM.gov, the governmentwide point of entry where agencies synopsize proposed contract actions expected to exceed $25,000, and it costs nothing. Worth knowing: not everything runs through it. Task orders under a multiple-award IDIQ are competed among the existing awardees under fair opportunity, and calls against a BPA generally are not synopsized.
Capture and proposal platforms.
Built for producing the bid.
Decision tools.
Built for triage: which of these is worth your week. GoNoGo is here. The full category breakdown covers the six jobs these tools do.
We reviewed the rest of this group one by one: SamSearch, Gov Contract Finder, GovDash, Procurement Sciences and Sweetspot.
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Closing
A clearer way for federal contractors to decide what to bid on.
Free to start, with daily usage credits.
Built by ContractIQ, backed by experienced federal contracting professionals.