Procurement Sciences sells to the top of the market. Read this before you book the demo.
Procurement Sciences says nearly half of the top 100 government contractors use it. That tells you a lot about who it is built for, and it is worth knowing before you book a demo.
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.
Procurement Sciences vs GoNoGo at a glance
- What it is
- Lifecycle AI platform from search to delivery, through Awarded AI and HigherGov
- Coverage
- Federal, state and local and grants, plus HigherGov market intelligence
- Pricing
- Not published. Demo or sales contact required
- Security posture
- States FedRAMP Moderate authorization, SOC 2 Type 2, CUI and GovCloud options
- See it before talking to sales
- No
- Built for
- Growth-stage, mid-tier and enterprise GovCons
- 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
- Security posture
- Not where GoNoGo competes at launch. It competes on a mobile daily workflow and on ContractIQ support
- See it before talking to sales
- Yes
- Built for
- New, small, growing and established contractors who own the pursuit decision
What is Procurement Sciences?
Procurement Sciences, the company behind Awarded AI, is an AI platform covering the whole contracting lifecycle: opportunity search across federal, state and local and grants, bid/no-bid analysis, AI-assisted proposal drafting with compliance checks, capture planning with competitive intelligence, and delivery support including recompete tracking. It describes its approach as human-in-the-loop, automating execution while strategy stays with people. Its site cites nearly 50 percent of the top 100 government contractors and more than 3,000 businesses, and states FedRAMP Moderate authorization, SOC 2 Type 2, and CUI and GovCloud options.
In May 2026 Procurement Sciences acquired HigherGov, pairing the Awarded AI execution workflows with HigherGov's market intelligence data. HigherGov continues as a standalone product in the portfolio, which means a buyer comparing the two is now comparing two parts of the same company.
Procurement Sciences and GoNoGo are aimed at different moments
Procurement Sciences has a bid/no-bid module, so on paper it overlaps with GoNoGo. In practice the two are aimed at different readers of that decision.
Theirs sits inside a capture process: the qualification step before a team commits resources, with competitive intelligence behind it. That is a meeting with a decision at the end of it.
GoNoGo's is the thirty seconds an owner spends on a phone deciding whether this one is even worth opening properly. Same words, very different moment.
Why starting with SAM.gov is a strength
GoNoGo launches with SAM.gov because it is solving the daily federal opportunity problem first. That is not a claim that SAM.gov is the only source that matters. It means GoNoGo starts where federal contractors already need more discipline: official notices, saved searches, deadlines, requirements, set-asides and the decision to pursue. As GoNoGo grows it expands into additional sources while keeping the same decision logic and the same mobile workflow.
How much does Procurement Sciences cost?
Procurement Sciences does not publish prices. Its site offers an ROI calculator with sample inputs, but actual numbers come from contacting sales.
The customer profile it advertises is worth reading as a pricing signal in itself: growth-stage firms, mid-tier contractors and enterprise GovCons. That is not a small-business price point, though only they can tell you the figure.
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 you compete against mid-tier and enterprise contractors, the competitive intelligence behind Procurement Sciences is aimed at that fight.
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 Procurement Sciences does well
The lifecycle coverage is wide, and the competitive intelligence behind their bid/no-bid step is the kind of thing that is hard to replicate: knowing the incumbent, the recompete timing and the likely competition changes a qualification decision more than any feature.
When Procurement Sciences is the right tool
When you have a capture team, when you compete against other mid-tier or large contractors, and when the cost of a bad bid decision is measured in weeks of several people's time.
When GoNoGo fits better
When the company is you and two others. When the decision has to be made today, on site, without a meeting.
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 Procurement Sciences alternatives, and where GoNoGo sits
Most alternatives lists in this category are written by one of the alternatives. So is this one, and you should read it that way. 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.
Databases,
like GovWin IQ and HigherGov. Built for coverage and research depth. Worth knowing here: HigherGov has been part of Procurement Sciences since May 2026, so those two are no longer independent of each other.
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, Sweetspot and Federal Compass.
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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.