Sources and sweeps
Where Greenlight looks for bids, and how often.
A source is a place Greenlight checks for new solicitations. A sweep is one check of your sources. New results land in Bids › Inbox with a verdict already attached.
Available sources: SAM.gov, Grants.gov, SBIR/STTR, GSA eBuy (by email: turn on RFQ email notices in your eBuy account and forward them to your Greenlight address; Greenlight never asks for your eBuy login), Federal Register (notices and RFIs, rarely direct bids), USAspending (past awards, for research), RSS/Atom feeds, portal pages, email alerts and custom sources.
- Open Bids › Sources.
- Turn a source on or off with its switch.
- Choose how often to sweep, from every hour to weekly. Each source can also have its own schedule.
- Press Sweep now to check all switched-on sources immediately, or the play button on one source to check just that one.
A switched-off source can't be swept. Turn it on first. Each source shows when it was last swept.
The Free plan includes 2 sources. Solo, Team and Pro have no source limit. Admins and owners can edit sources. Members can run sweeps.