The Scenario
You're a capture strategist and your BD team just got tasked with identifying which federal contract vehicles cover the 25 service categories your company is positioned to bid. The list is in column A of your Excel workbook. The goal is to prioritize which vehicles to pursue for on-ramping — but first you need to know which vehicles even apply. Nobody has done this analysis before, and the BD director wants a recommendation before the next leadership sync.
The bad version:
- Open HigherGov's contract vehicle search, manually search for the first service category, read through the vehicle listings, record vehicle name, ordering agency, ceiling value, ordering period, and socioeconomic categories — all by hand.
- Do this 24 more times, knowing that some service categories will return a dozen active vehicles and some will return two, and the data won't be consistently structured by the time you're done.
- Realize the leadership sync is in two days and you're on category #8.
You're supposed to be advising on pursuit strategy, not transcribing database entries.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the service categories and vehicle keys in your workbook and through its built-in HigherGov integration retrieves full contract vehicle details for each, writing them back to your workbook.
For each vehicle key in column A, retrieve full contract vehicle details from HigherGov including vehicle name, ordering agency, ceiling value, ordering period, and eligible socioeconomic categories.
What You Get
- Column B: the official vehicle name.
- Column C: the ordering agency.
- Column D: the total ceiling value of the vehicle.
- Column E: the ordering period (start and end dates).
- Column F: eligible socioeconomic categories (8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.).
- Vehicle keys with no matching records return "Vehicle not found" in column B.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Column A has service category descriptions rather than vehicle keys
Search HigherGov for all active multi-award contract vehicles awarded since 2022 that cover the service category described in each row of column A. Fill columns B–F with vehicle name, ordering agency, ceiling value, ordering period, and eligible socioeconomic categories. Return up to three vehicle matches per category, ranked by most recent award date.
You only want vehicles where your company's socioeconomic status is eligible
For each service category in column A, search HigherGov for active multi-award contract vehicles awarded since 2022. Fill columns B–F with vehicle name, ordering agency, ceiling value, ordering period, and eligible socioeconomic categories. Filter to only vehicles where column F includes 8(a) eligibility.
Your workbook has service categories on Sheet1 and a vehicle shortlist from a previous analysis on Sheet2
For each service category in column A of the Services worksheet, search HigherGov for active multi-award contract vehicles. Fill columns B–F with vehicle name, ordering agency, ceiling value, ordering period, and socioeconomic eligibility. In column G, flag any vehicle in column B that also appears in column A of the Shortlist worksheet as "Existing Match."
You need the full vehicle landscape plus a pursuit priority score in one pass
For each service category in column A, search HigherGov for active multi-award contract vehicles awarded since 2022. Fill columns B–F with vehicle name, ordering agency, ceiling value, ordering period, and socioeconomic eligibility. In column G, score each vehicle from 1–5 based on ceiling value (larger scores higher) and whether 8(a) is an eligible category (yes adds 1 point). In column H, write a one-sentence rationale for the score.
Vehicle discovery, eligibility filtering, and pursuit scoring — one prompt.
Try It
Open your service category workbook in Excel — the one your BD team built for the vehicle pursuit analysis — and get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI. Ask it to pull contract vehicle details for every row. Then explore bulk-pulling federal contract awards or return to the hub overview.