RFParse · Federal + SLED solicitations
RFParse is a developer API. Subscribe to an endpoint, send any government solicitation from your product or pipeline, and get back a structured compliance matrix with every requirement classified, sourced, and ready to ship into your proposal workflow.
| # | Section | Requirement | Type | Verb | Hidden |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Section L.4 | Technical approach shall not exceed 25 pages | Mandatory | SHALL | — |
| 002 | Section M.2 | Past performance (3 contracts, last 5 years, $1M+ each) | Eval Criterion | MUST | — |
| 003 | Section L.9 | Price volume: separate from technical, no cross-reference | Mandatory | SHALL | — |
| 004 | Attachment B.3 | FedRAMP Moderate authorization required within 90 days | Certification | MUST | ⚠ Hidden |
| 005 | Section C.2.1 | Key personnel: PM must have PMP, 7+ years federal IT | Mandatory | SHALL | ⚠ Hidden |
The Problem
Before a single word of your proposal is written, someone has to read every page of the solicitation and extract every requirement. It's still the most senior, most expensive, and most error-prone hour of the entire proposal cycle.
Critical requirements hide in attachments, exhibits, referenced documents, and obscure SOW subsections — not just Sections L and M. Manual shredding misses them. RFParse scans everything.
A typical federal solicitation runs 100–500 pages. Manual requirement extraction takes a senior BD professional 4–8 hours — time that should be spent on win strategy and technical approach.
A missed SHALL in Section L means a non-compliant proposal. A missed certification requirement in an attachment means disqualification. The cost of incomplete shredding is losing the bid entirely.
How it works
RFParse is an API, not a SaaS dashboard. You don't log in to use it — you call it from your own product, pipeline, or code repo.
Pick a tier, get an API key in your inbox, and authenticate against the RFParse endpoint. No sales call. No implementation engagement. You’re live in minutes.
POST the RFP — base solicitation, amendments, attachments — from your own product, CLI, or data pipeline. One endpoint, standard bearer auth, multipart upload. Sync or async via webhook.
Get back structured JSON with every requirement, classified and source-linked. Render it in your product, write it to your DB, or push it into GovDash, Loopio, or whatever your team uses.
Key differentiator
Most RFP tools — and most proposal teams — focus on Sections L and M. But requirements hide everywhere.
RFParse scans the entire solicitation package — every attachment, exhibit, and referenced document. Requirements found outside Sections L, M, and C are flagged as hidden and surfaced prominently in your compliance matrix. These are the requirements that cost you the bid when you miss them.
RFParse understands FAR and DFARS clause language natively. It identifies incorporated-by-reference clauses and flags their compliance implications — no manual lookup required.
Every requirement is classified by its compliance verb: SHALL and MUST are mandatory, SHOULD is preferred, MAY is optional. Build your compliance matrix with precision, not guesswork.
RFParse surfaces go/no-go flags: disqualifying requirements you can’t meet, certifications you don’t hold, past performance thresholds you can’t clear. Make bid decisions faster and with more confidence.
When Section C references Section H, or Section L points to an exhibit, RFParse links them. No more manually hunting for the full context of a requirement that references another document section.
Export compliance matrices directly to GovDash, Loopio, or Excel. Or use the API to pipe requirements directly into your own proposal management system. No manual copy-paste.
Legacy solicitations and state/local RFPs often arrive as scanned PDFs or mixed-quality documents. RFParse handles OCR and preprocessing automatically — no clean PDF required.
Use cases
You’re bidding on federal contracts with a lean BD team. You don’t have a dedicated proposal manager for every opportunity. RFParse gives your team the compliance matrix in minutes so they can spend their time on win strategy, not manual shredding.
Building a BD intelligence tool, proposal automation platform, or procurement analytics product? RFParse gives you structured RFP data as a service. Embed requirement extraction into your product without training a model.
Running bid/no-bid analysis across a pipeline of 20+ active opportunities? RFParse extracts the critical compliance signals — certifications required, past performance thresholds, set-aside restrictions — so you can make faster go/no-go decisions.
Your teaming partners need the compliance matrix before they can write their sections. RFParse generates the matrix immediately after release, giving your full team a head start on response time.
Pricing
Pay per solicitation processed. No per-seat fees that punish your whole proposal team. Scale with your pipeline.
All paid plans include a 14-day money-back guarantee. Annual billing saves 20%. Overages billed at $3.50/RFP.
Get started
Join the waitlist and we'll email when API keys open for your tier.
Not building it yourself? Prefer us to handle the extraction for you? Submit your RFP to Parseo and we'll run the analysis end-to-end. Structured output in your inbox, no integration required.