The Federal Trades Digest · HVAC edition — sample · Week of August 28, 2026
Selling isn’t your job — running jobs is. Every week we hand your shop the federal jobs you can actually win, filtered to your trade and your state, ranked so the worth-it ones surface first.
You’re viewing the HVAC sample edition — electrical, plumbing, roofing, janitorial + 6 more trades at launch.
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Why contractors switch
Federal maintenance contracts run multiple years and don’t care what season it is. Win one and your slow months start looking like your busy months.
A typical shared lead gets sold to three to eight contractors at once — you’re all calling the same homeowner within minutes. Federal bids are sealed. Nobody else sees your number, and nobody undercuts you before you’ve even quoted.
No haggling, no ghosting. The federal government is the most reliable customer in the country — prompt payment is required by law.
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No pay-per-lead. No phone races. No auction pricing. We don’t sell leads — we make sure you never miss yours. $29 flat.
A straight, honest comparison — no vendor pricing games, no hidden fees.
Shared home-service leads
FedTrades
One federal maintenance contract can carry a crew for a year. FedTrades costs less than half of one shared lead.
The government already saved you a seat. We walk you to the table.
Try it yourself
Slide to your typical job size. The math below is exactly what it looks like — no win-rate assumptions, no fine print.
Simple arithmetic: job value ÷ FedTrades’ annual cost, and job value ÷ a typical shared-lead price. Not a promise you’ll win the job — just what the numbers say once you do.
The real job list, filterable by trade view, state, and keyword. The subscriber edition unlocks every job for your trade and state — this sample shows the top of the list.
Included in the subscriber edition — your bids, deadlines and results in one place.
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Tell us the trade you bid in and where you’re licensed to work. One trade, one state to start — or every state you cover.
A ranked, filtered list lands before your week starts — nothing to search, nothing buried in a 40-tab sam.gov session.
Set-asides and near-term closes surface first, so you spend your bidding hours on the notices worth the paperwork.
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Starter
“See the work.”
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Never miss a winnable job again.
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Bid-Ready
“Win the work.”
$79/mo
Everything in Starter, plus:
Walk into your first bid knowing exactly what to submit.
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Win Partner
“Bid with backup.”
$199/mo
Everything in Bid-Ready, plus:
Bid like the shops that win.
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No — and here’s the honest difference. Shared-lead sites sell the same homeowner’s phone number to several shops, charge each of them for it, and whoever calls first wins. We don’t sell leads at all: federal jobs are open solicitations decided by sealed bids, so there’s no phone race to lose and no per-lead fee to burn. Other subscribers in your trade see the same listings — just like every bidder can — but winning is decided by your bid, not by who paid for the lead. Our job is simple: you never miss a job you could have won, for one flat price.
FedTrades filters every notice down to your trade and your state, ranks listings by whether a small shop can actually win them, and lands in your inbox already sorted, before the deadline creeps up on you. The listings themselves come from SAM.gov, the government’s system of record, and every one links back to the official listing so you can verify it yourself. You’re not paying for the data — you’re paying for not having to search it.
Yes. You don’t need a procurement background — every listing links to the official SAM.gov record showing exactly what’s required to bid. Most small shops start with a straightforward solicitation, not a complex formal proposal. Bid-Ready breaks down the requirements in plain English, and Win Packs show past awards for similar work, so you can see what a winning bid looked like before you write yours.
HVAC is this week’s sample edition. FedTrades tracks HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing, janitorial, landscaping, painting, flooring, paving, security, and IT services, with more trades added as coverage expands. Every listing comes from SAM.gov — the U.S. government’s official system of record for contract opportunities — and links directly to the official record so you can confirm details before you bid.