How the fit score works

The fit score answers one question: given what your company does, how much is this notice worth your time? It is not a probability of winning. It is a ranking signal that gets the right ten notices to the top of a list of a thousand.

What goes in

Every notice is scored against your targeting profile, which lives under Settings → Targeting:

• Requirement tags (up to 55 points). Tag packs for cyber, cloud, IT services and so on, plus your own keywords, are matched against the title, the description and the extracted text of every attachment. A hit in the title counts double. The cyber tag needs two hits before it counts at all, because the word shows up in boilerplate.
• Set-aside (+20 / +3 / −10). A set-aside you qualify for is a strong signal; one you don't is a reason to sink.
• NAICS (+8) when the notice is in one of your codes.
• Notice type. Solicitations and sources sought score higher than special notices.
• Time left (+5 open / −25 closed).

Why attachments count less

A full solicitation package cites every FAR and DFARS clause, so every RFP "mentions" NIST 800-171, CMMC and CUI. If attachment text counted the same as the description, everything would look like a cyber job. So attachment hits count only when they are dense (at least three, scaled by document length), and tags found only in attachments score at half weight, capped at 20.

Awards and justifications

Award notices and J&As are kept, because they are useful market research, but they keep only 10% of their score. They stay searchable and sort below anything you can still bid on.

Arguing with it

Open any notice and the Score Breakdown shows each component. If something ranks high for a reason you disagree with, change the profile — turn a tag pack off, add a keyword, drop a set-aside — and re-score. The breakdown is there so the number is never a mystery.