A mobile-first map for exploring live federal contract opportunities from SAM.gov.
RFP Map turns the public SAM.gov Contract Opportunities bulk feed into a semantic market map. Instead of starting with a search form, you start with the market: agencies as regions, work categories as neighborhoods, and individual RFPs as tappable pins.
Federal Market → Agency → Category → RFP → SAM.gov
SAM.gov is the official source of federal contract opportunities, but it is hard to explore casually. It works like a database. RFP Map makes it feel like a map.
The goal is not to replace GovWin, HigherGov, GovTribe, or SAM.gov. The goal is simpler:
Let a curious user open the app and understand what the federal government is trying to buy right now.
- Open the Federal Market overview.
- Tap an agency region, e.g.
Veterans Affairs. - Tap a market category, e.g.
Construction. - Tap an RFP pin.
- Open the original SAM.gov source record.
- Map first. The interface starts with exploration, not search.
- Mobile first. One-thumb drilldown: tap region, tap market, tap RFP.
- No token in the browser. The checked-in demo uses static precomputed tiles.
- Source linked. Every RFP points back to SAM.gov.
- Fast by default. The browser loads compact map tiles instead of the full bulk CSV.
- Approximate value is enough. Dollar amounts are market-gravity estimates, not official award values.
RFP Map is built from the public SAM.gov Contract Opportunities bulk CSV:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/falextracts/Contract%20Opportunities/datagov/ContractOpportunitiesFullCSV.csv
Current static snapshot:
- 73,946 active/open opportunity rows
- 187 precomputed map tiles
- Static tile payload:
public/data/map-tiles.json
The raw CSV and generated local development payloads are intentionally not committed. Only the compact static map tiles are checked in so the app can be hosted permanently on static infrastructure.
SAM.gov bulk CSV
↓
scripts/ingest-sam.py
↓
local normalized data in data/sam/ ignored by git
↓
precomputed compact map tiles
↓
public/data/map-tiles.json
↓
Next.js static export
↓
GitHub Pages / any static host
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Static export for long-lived hosting
npm install
npm run devOpen:
http://localhost:3000
npm run buildThe exported site is written to:
out/
Serve it locally:
npm run serveThe repo includes an ingestion script for rebuilding SAM.gov data:
npm run ingest:samThe script downloads the public SAM.gov Contract Opportunities bulk CSV, keeps the raw/generated development files under ignored data/sam/, and writes the compact browser payload to:
public/data/map-tiles.json
The static site never fetches the 200MB bulk CSV in the browser and does not require a SAM.gov API key.
The checked-in workflow:
.github/workflows/refresh-sam-data.yml
runs daily at 05:30 UTC, after SAM.gov's overnight active-notice refresh window. It:
- downloads the latest public bulk CSV,
- regenerates
public/data/map-tiles.jsonandpublic/data/bulk-summary.json, - validates the static build with
GITHUB_PAGES=true npm run build, - commits the refreshed compact data if it changed, and
- deploys the refreshed static site to GitHub Pages.
This repo includes a GitHub Pages workflow:
.github/workflows/pages.yml
On every push to main, GitHub Actions runs:
npm ci
npm run buildand deploys the out/ directory to GitHub Pages.
After creating the GitHub repo, enable Pages with GitHub Actions as the source:
Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Source: GitHub Actions
Then the app can live indefinitely at the repo's Pages URL.
RFP Map is not:
- a capture-management CRM
- a GovWin replacement
- a proposal workflow system
- a pricing intelligence product
- a SAM.gov API proxy
Those may be useful products, but they are different products.
Uncle Sam's Cart is a separate concept: a playful, media-friendly feed of weird things the government is buying. That should live in a separate repo.
RFP Map stays focused on the map.
MIT