Services · Government contracts

The government spends billions, and the room is emptier than you think.

You've heard there's money in public work. Then you opened SAM.gov and closed the tab. Here's the part nobody says out loud: almost any company with a clean record can compete for these contracts. Most just never find out.

$50k
private jobs you bid now
$500k
federal work you become eligible to bid
Apply for government setup See the month, stop by stop
SAM.gov is free to do yourself One flat fee, confirmed first A person reads every application Nobody can guarantee you a contract

The part nobody tells you

You picture a crowded auction. The room is nearly empty.

Everyone assumes federal work is locked up by giants with lobbyists and a floor of grant writers. It isn't. Most of it goes to companies that simply did the paperwork and showed up.

Prime contractors subcontract a large share of every job they win, and small companies do most of that work. You're just not on their list yet. The barrier isn't your size. It's the registration, and the fact that most people quit halfway through SAM.gov.

What we actually do

We don't just do it for you. We hand you the keys.

About a month, start to bid-ready, and you come out understanding how the whole machine works, not dependent on us to run it.

The month, stop by stop

Six stops from your paperwork to your first bid.

There is no mystery in this, only an order. It stalls in exactly one place, entity validation, so we work it early where it is cheap to fix.

01
Your details, onceWe send the forms. You send back your legal entity name, your EIN, your physical address, bank details for electronic payment, and the trades you actually work.
02
Entity validationSAM matches your legal name and address against government records. A mismatch stops the clock. We find it and resolve it before we submit, not after.
03
Your UEI and the registration itselfThe Unique Entity ID is issued inside SAM. We complete the registration with you, including the representations and certifications that come attached to it.
04
NAICS codes and set-asidesWe map your trade to its NAICS codes and size standards, then tell you which set-aside programs you could apply for and what each one wants to see.
05
Your capability statementOne page a contracting officer will actually read: what you do, what you have done, your codes, your identifiers, and one person who answers the phone.
06
Bid portals, then real solicitationsSaved searches in SAM.gov plus the state and agency portals your trade lives on. Then we work the first solicitations with you instead of handing you a login.

The document that does the work

One page decides whether a contracting officer calls you.

A capability statement is the only marketing document most contracting officers will ever look at. It is one page, it has a fixed shape, and getting that shape wrong is why most first attempts go straight in a drawer.

Yours is written from the same information we file in SAM, so your codes, your identifiers and your past work say the same thing everywhere a buyer checks. Four things have to be on it:

  • Core competencies, in the words a buyer actually searches with.
  • Past performance, sized and dated, with a reference who will pick up.
  • Your NAICS codes, your size standard, and any set-aside you claim.
  • Your UEI, your CAGE code, and one point of contact who answers.

Northside Roofing & ExteriorsSpringfield · Roofing and exterior envelope

238160Primary NAICS
3Secondary codes
SDVOSBSet-aside claimed

Blocks on the page

Core competencies Past performance Differentiators UEI and CAGE Point of contact

Example only. Northside Roofing is the fictional company Servora uses in its product tour. Your codes and your past work are yours.

Why trust us with it

We ran this as a two-man operation. Then we started running it for other contractors, too.

No department. No connections. Two people who learned the system from the ground up. We're not handing you a theory, we're handing you the exact playbook we ran ourselves.

Two people

The size of the operation that started landing federal contracts. If we did it that lean, your business can too.

A track record

Contracts secured for other businesses since, across trades, states, and set-asides. This isn't our first registration.

Billions on the table

The government's spend isn't slowing down. The paperwork is the only gate standing between you and it.

Who can actually do this

Three boxes. Check them, and you can be a government contractor.

A clean recordNo baggage that would flag you out of eligibility.
A business licenseA real, registered business, whatever your trade.
InsuranceThe coverage you already carry to do the work.

That's the whole list. Meet it and you can bid on work your competition never sees.

The set-aside programs we check you against

A set-aside reserves certain contracts for certain kinds of business, which is how a small company ends up bidding against four others instead of four hundred. Certification is the SBA's call, not ours. What we do is map which programs your company could apply for and tell you what each one asks to see.

Small business 8(a) development HUBZone Woman-owned (WOSB) Veteran-owned (VOSB) Service-disabled veteran (SDVOSB)

$5,500flat setup

We don't charge you to take it over, we charge to give you the platform, the setup, and the skills. Against a jump from a $50k job to a $500k one, it's the cheapest line on the invoice.

Pay once, and next month you're bidding.

Straight up, the registration itself is free. Registering your business in SAM.gov is 100% free if you do it yourself. The government never charges for it, and neither does anyone honest. You're not paying us for access to a free system, you're paying for our time to do it correctly, a capability statement that wins, and setup to land real work. Want to DIY it? Start at SAM.gov and skip the fee entirely.

What costs what

The government's half of this is free. We charge for ours.

Three of the four lines below are $0.00 and always have been. We would rather you read that here than find it out afterwards.

LineWhat it costs
SAM.gov registration and your UEIIssued by the government. Nobody has ever been allowed to charge you for it. $0.00
Your CAGE codeAssigned to you when the registration validates. It is part of the same free process. $0.00
Renewing SAM every yearRequired annually to stay active. The government still charges nothing for it. $0.00
Servora, doing all of it correctly the first timeEntity validation, the registration, NAICS and set-aside mapping, your capability statement, bid portals, and the first solicitations worked with you. $5,500one time

Every dollar on this page is our time. None of it buys access to anything the government sells, because the government does not sell any of it. If you would rather spend the month yourself, SAM.gov is where you start and you owe us nothing.

Apply for government contract setup

This is an application, not a mailing list, we review every one and reply within one business day. If you're eligible, we'll confirm the flat fee and the exact next step for your line of work.

Rather talk it through first? Book a consult →

Straight answers

Asked before every application

Is SAM registration really free?
Yes. Doing it yourself costs nothing, and we say so right on this page. What you pay us for is getting it right the first time, a capability statement that wins, and a repeatable process for chasing real work.
Does registering guarantee me contracts?
No, and nobody honest will tell you otherwise. Registration opens the door. Bids win the work. We set you up with both the paperwork and the process.
Am I eligible?
A clean record, proper licensing, and insurance for your trade puts you in the conversation for most work. Each agency and solicitation has final say on its own requirements. Apply and we will tell you straight.
How long until I can bid?
About a month from complete information to bid-ready in most cases. Government validation times can stretch that, and we track it for you the whole way.
I already started my registration. Can you finish it?
Yes. Half-finished SAM registrations are where most people quit. We fix what is there, complete the rest, and build the opportunity process on top.
What is a UEI, and what is a CAGE code?
The Unique Entity ID is the number the federal government uses to identify your business, and it is issued inside SAM.gov. The CAGE code is assigned when your registration validates. Neither one costs anything, and neither one can be bought.
What is a capability statement?
One page a contracting officer reads to decide whether to call you. It carries your core competencies, your past performance, your differentiators, your NAICS codes and any set-aside you claim, and one point of contact who answers. We write yours from the same information we file in SAM, so the two never disagree.
Can Servora software run the jobs I win?
Yes. The General Contractor plan at $99.99 a month carries the government-contracting playbook, a bid board for your own subs, insurance and W-9 tracking that warns you before a certificate lapses, phases with a vendor assigned to each, and year-end 1099 totals as a CSV. The Contractor plan at $39.99 a month covers estimates, signatures, invoices and the client portal without the subcontractor half.

Running public work with subs? The Servora General Contractor plan manages them, or walk the product tour first.

Where this actually starts

The paperwork is the gate. Nothing else is.

A clean record, a license and insurance put you in the room. Tell us what you do and we will tell you straight whether the month is worth it.

Apply for government setup Or start it yourself at SAM.gov

Take it with you

Get the setup checklist and the price sheet.

Leave an email and we send the registration checklist: the exact documents and details SAM asks for, in the order it asks, so the month does not stall on a missing EIN letter.

In a hurry? It is also a page: read the setup checklist right now → and the full price sheet is here.