The Calendar shows every dated event for your company by week or month, up to 12 months ahead, so you can plan capacity before deadlines bunch up.
Event types
| Event | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Response due | The response deadline of a matched contract notice |
| Questions due | The deadline to submit questions, when the solicitation or SBIR topic states one. It sits beside the response deadline on the notice and in the digest, and can be added to your calendar on its own |
| Grant closes | The close date of a matched grant |
| Internal due | The internal due date you set on a saved opportunity |
| SBIR opens / SBIR closes | When an SBIR/STTR topic opens and closes |
| Recompete ends | A current contract in your codes ends, so a new competition is likely |
| Expected RFP | The window in which that recompete's solicitation is expected |
| Follow-up due | A follow-up from your contact log |
Filter by event type, notice type, set-aside, score and saved status. Save a filter set as a view.
Month calendar
On the heat map, select a month's heading to open that month as a calendar. Each day lists its deadlines and due dates; select a day's number, or + more, to see all of them. Expected RFP windows usually span several months, so they appear once at the top of the month as a count you can open. Use the arrows to move a month at a time, or Back to the heat map. On a phone the month shows as a list of the days that have something due.
Times and time zones
Deadlines are shown in Eastern time (ET) with the time when the government published one. Always confirm the time and time zone in the solicitation itself; a few agencies use local time.
Put every deadline in Outlook or Google Calendar
Settings, Calendar sync connects your own Outlook (Microsoft 365 or Outlook.com) or Google Calendar. GovCon then adds every date on the opportunities you track as an event with reminders: response due, questions due, grant closes and internal due dates.
- It stays current. When a deadline moves, the event moves. When you close an opportunity in GovCon (won, lost, no-bid or archived), its upcoming events are removed. Past events are left alone.
- Reminders. Choose from 2 weeks, 1 week, 3 days, 1 day and 2 hours before. Google Calendar gets every reminder you choose. Outlook keeps one reminder per event, so GovCon sets the earliest one; snooze it to be reminded again.
- What an event looks like. A deadline with a time is a 30-minute block that ends at the deadline. A date without a time is an all-day event. Each event names the company and agency and links back to the opportunity in GovCon.
- Permission. Microsoft or Google asks you to let GovCon edit your calendar. GovCon only adds, changes and removes the events it created. Your permission is kept in Acidni's Key Vault, never in the database, and Disconnect deletes it (and, if you tick the box, GovCon's upcoming events).
- Coaches can choose which companies' dates go into their calendar.
GovCon updates your calendar a few seconds after you change an opportunity and every six hours, or straight away with Sync now.
Add one deadline to your calendar
On a match card or a saved opportunity, open Add to calendar and pick Outlook, Google or a downloadable .ics file.
Subscribe to your calendar
Under Settings, create a calendar subscription link and paste it into Outlook, Google Calendar or Apple Calendar as a calendar from the internet. It carries your saved opportunities' deadlines and internal due dates and updates on its own.
The link works without signing in, so treat it like a password. You can revoke it under Settings at any time; a revoked link stops working straight away.