HigherGov

Government contract intelligence delivered through conversational AI

Your BD team needs contract opportunities, award histories, and agency contacts. Your AI agent searches HigherGov's database of millions of federal, state, and local records in real time, returning filtered results during conversations instead of manual dashboard queries.

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GovCon data at your agent's fingertips

From opportunity searches to award tracking and NAICS lookups, your agent taps HigherGov's comprehensive government market intelligence API during every conversation.

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Use Cases

Winning government deals faster

See how government contractors use AI agents to surface HigherGov intelligence during team conversations, accelerating opportunity discovery and competitive research.

Morning Opportunity Briefing Without Logging In

A BD director starts the day by asking the agent for new opportunities posted since yesterday. Your AI Agent queries HigherGov's opportunities endpoint with a captured_date filter, retrieves matching solicitations with agency names and response deadlines, and delivers a formatted briefing. The director identifies three worth pursuing before the first meeting. No dashboard navigation required.

Competitive Intelligence for Bid Decisions

Your capture team needs to know which contracts a competitor has won in the past two years. They ask the agent with the company name. The AI Agent searches HigherGov's prime contract awards by keyword, retrieves award values, agencies, and contract types, and compiles a competitive profile. The team makes a go/no-go decision backed by data instead of guesswork.

Grant Research for Nonprofit Fundraising

A development officer at a university needs open health research grants. They describe the topic to the agent. The AI Agent queries HigherGov's grant opportunities by keyword and status, filters for open programs, and returns program names, deadlines, and awarding agencies. The officer starts drafting proposals the same day instead of spending hours on SAM.gov.

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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the AI agent search for government contract opportunities?

The agent calls HigherGov's opportunities endpoint with filters like captured_date, source_type (e.g., SAM.gov), and search_id for saved searches. Results include solicitation titles, agencies, posted dates, and response deadlines. The agent presents them conversationally, so your team can review without navigating the HigherGov platform.

Can the agent retrieve historical award data for competitive analysis?

Yes. The agent queries HigherGov's prime contract awards, grant awards, and subcontract awards endpoints with filters for recipient name, fiscal year, agency, and last modified date. It returns award values, contract types, and performance details for comprehensive competitive intelligence.

What HigherGov API key permissions does Tars need?

Tars uses your standard HigherGov API key, which grants read access to all available endpoints including contracts, grants, opportunities, people, agencies, and classifications. The key is generated from your HigherGov account settings and can be revoked at any time.

Does Tars store any HigherGov contract or award data?

No. Tars queries the HigherGov API in real time during conversations. Contract details, award records, and opportunity data are fetched live and used only to generate the response. No government data is cached or stored on Tars servers.

Can the agent use my HigherGov saved searches?

Yes. If you have saved searches configured in HigherGov, the agent can pass the search_id parameter to filter results using your predefined criteria. This means your carefully built filters for specific agencies, NAICS codes, or set-aside types work seamlessly through the agent.

How is this different from using HigherGov's web platform directly?

The web platform requires navigating dashboards, applying filters, and exporting data manually. With Tars, your team asks natural language questions like 'Show me DoD IT contracts posted this week' and gets formatted answers instantly. Market intelligence becomes a conversation, not a research session.

Can the agent look up government contacts and personnel?

Yes. The agent uses HigherGov's people endpoint to search by name, organization, or role (e.g., 'Contracting Officer'). Results include names, titles, and affiliated organizations, helping your BD team identify the right points of contact for upcoming solicitations.

Does the integration cover state and local government opportunities?

Yes. HigherGov tracks SLED (state, local, education, and district) contract opportunities alongside federal data. The agent can query the SLED contract opportunities endpoint to surface state and local solicitations, giving you comprehensive coverage across all government levels.

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Health Coach
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TARS is an essential tool within our lead gen strategy. I started to use it a couple years ago, and the platform evolved to focus on results. You can integrate your Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and AdWords conversion tag to track results and measure your campaign. You can also integrate with Zapier, which opens a lot of possibilities. Compared with static landing pages, we have seen an increase in conversions and more engagement.
Leonardo Wolff
Founder
“Very professional and cooperative”
Building an automated chat that our customers actually used and reduced calls amount.
Maryam Alhaddad
Customer Journey Designer
“Flexibility and good service”
Tars platform is very flexible, so you can do pretty much any flux you desire. Also integrates with any third party through APIs with a very simple and easy-to-use interface. Also tars team is great! Always at disposal and brings suggestions and solutions for any issue encountered during the process of building the chatbot.
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Chief Operating Officer
“The chatbot implementation has exceeded expectations!”
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Victor Pereira
Customer Care and CX Manager
“We're saving an average of 4,000+ calls a month.”
Implementing an Agent revolutionized our customer service channels and our service to Indiana business owners. We're saving an average of 4,000+ calls a month and can now provide 24x7x365 customer service️ along with our business services.
Lindsey Roark Mayes
Ex-Director of SOS IT (State of Indiana)
“Cutting down on staff needing to email back.”
Since our launch of Tars Agents, we've had more than 5k interactions with them from individuals on the website. We saw prospects interacting with the Agent regarding application timelines, tuition, curriculum, and other items that may come through an email. This provides another avenue of access to our team while cutting down on staff needing to email back.
Levi Eastwood
Marketing Director of UCI Merage School
“Powerful tool - and there's so much more still to explore!”
I love the flexibility of the TARS chatbot design tool. The ability to drop in a new gambit and easily de-link and re-link gambits before and after it saves HOURS of time lost if I had to regenerate from scratch. TARS stands out for its flexibility, consistent performance, and outstanding support.
Aaron Rittmaster
Founder
“I like the product.”
Takes those boring forms and allows you to make the collecting of customer information enjoyable for the user. It has a lot of value and I see the company constantly working on improving it.
Pierre Rattini
Director of Marketing
“Very responsive and supportive Team”
I love how supportive and responsive the team members are. The chatbots are not difficult to build once you have an idea of what you are doing, and this is so based on the backend work Tars has completed. Also, they are flexible to the clients' requests.
Keisha Cameron
Product Manager
“Easy for cooperation and open to agreement.”
One of the biggest qualities of TARS is their ability to truly understand their clients' needs. They took the time to thoroughly assess our requirements, offering valuable insights and recommendations that we hadn't even considered. This level of personalized attention made a significant difference in the success of our project.
Milica Petrovic
Customer Care Project Associate
“Great service”
The guys at Tars are so passionate about bots and maximum engagement. Tars is overall a great product with really nice people there to help me engage and automate conversations I would have otherwise missed.
Nigel Gosling
Health Coach
“Best in class for lead generation”
TARS is an essential tool within our lead gen strategy. I started to use it a couple years ago, and the platform evolved to focus on results. You can integrate your Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and AdWords conversion tag to track results and measure your campaign. You can also integrate with Zapier, which opens a lot of possibilities. Compared with static landing pages, we have seen an increase in conversions and more engagement.
Leonardo Wolff
Founder
“Very professional and cooperative”
Building an automated chat that our customers actually used and reduced calls amount.
Maryam Alhaddad
Customer Journey Designer
“Flexibility and good service”
Tars platform is very flexible, so you can do pretty much any flux you desire. Also integrates with any third party through APIs with a very simple and easy-to-use interface. Also tars team is great! Always at disposal and brings suggestions and solutions for any issue encountered during the process of building the chatbot.
Lucas Von Lachmann
Process Manager
“Deserved The title of the Best Chatbot of the Year”
If you are building chatbots, you cannot go wrong with TARS. I have been with this company since their beginning. Seen how they have grown. I have tested a lot of bots, but this one is still the best out there. We use WhatsApp a lot for our business. And what I like best is that I can have 1 chatbot for website and for my WhatsApp. I especially appreciate their support team as well. Whenever I am stuck, they quickly reply to my questions.
MJ Felix
Chairman
“Advanced integration, easy to use, and very customizable.”
This chatbot does everything from AI integration to complete customization and is excellent for lead conversion in most industries. I think the pre-formatted templates are an excellent boost to get started quickly. The team is also excellent.
Rachel Rowling
Chief Operating Officer
“The chatbot implementation has exceeded expectations!”
The implementation has delivered 24/7 customer support and is proving its value by reducing Contact center calls by around 5% in just four months of operation. Beyond enhancing the e-care experience, the chatbot is driving impressive business results, achieving a remarkable 20% month-on-month growth.
Victor Pereira
Customer Care and CX Manager

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