SLED data (state, local, and education government contracting data) is only useful if it's current. Govly's SLED offering now tracks 1.56 million opportunities, 23.2 million award records, and 51.9K signal meetings, refreshed on a 2-month cadence, far more frequently than most competing platforms. Here's what changed and why it matters for capture teams.
Key stats at a glance
- 1.56M SLED opportunities tracked, growing ~28,000 to 30,000 per month
- 23.2M SLED award records, up roughly 5x since mid-May 2026
- 51.9K signal meetings ingested, with 20.2K from the last 90 days
- 2-month data refresh cadence
- 5,100+ live SLED portals monitored across 225 scrapers
- 1,196 SLED entities covered via FOIA requests
If you track opportunities across state, local, education, or municipal government, you already know the problem: the market is fragmented across thousands of portals, meeting agendas, and award systems, and most of it updates on someone else's schedule, not yours. By the time an opportunity shows up in your tracking tool, it may have already been live for days. Govly's SLED offering was rebuilt to close that gap, not by claiming the biggest historical archive, but by being the most current, most frequently refreshed, and most complete picture of SLED activity available anywhere, including sources most tools can't process at all.
Real-time SLED opportunity tracking across all 50 states
Govly tracks SLED opportunities from the state level all the way down to counties and K-12 districts, across all 50 states. That's 1.56 million SLED opportunities across more than 5,100 live portals and 225 scrapers, growing by roughly 28,000 to 30,000 new opportunities every month. Coverage runs largely hands-off: when a portal changes its structure, the system automatically adapts the scraper, so nothing quietly goes stale.
Govly also ingests NASPO and other privatized SLED contracts, plus SLED solicitations posted to GSA, vehicles that a lot of tracking tools miss entirely.
The freshest SLED award data in the market
Govly's SLED awards corpus has grown to 23.2 million records, up roughly 5x since mid-May 2026, built from FOIA requests to 1,196 SLED entities and nearly 15,000 source files.
Size matters less than currency: 90% of that corpus is from the last five years, and 72% is from 2024 onward. Awards refresh on a 2-month cadence, and fresh awards keep landing at roughly 570,000 new awards every month by award date, a number still climbing as backfill completes.
The differentiator behind that number isn't a bigger archive. It's a capability: a meaningful share of SLED award data lives in messy, unstructured PDFs that most platforms simply can't parse. Govly's LLM-based pipeline turns those files into structured purchasing data automatically, surfacing award data that, until now, nobody else could get to.
Signal meetings: seeing SLED opportunities before they're posted
Long before an RFP posts, it often gets discussed out loud in a town hall, a board meeting, or a committee session. Govly AI captures meeting minutes from these sessions, so capture teams see emerging need as it happens rather than weeks later.
Govly has now ingested 51.9K signal meetings, more than double where it started the year, across 2,381 tracked sources. The velocity is the real story: 20.2K of those meetings landed in just the last 90 days, roughly 39% of the entire corpus. This is a live feed of the earliest possible signal in the capture cycle, not a static archive.
Forecasting SLED opportunities up to five years out
Because Govly verifies deadlines and contract terms directly against attachment scans, not estimates, it can forecast SLED opportunities up to five years out with real confidence. That gives capture teams a genuine head start on planning, instead of guessing from historical patterns alone.
Govly AI and MCP: smarter insights on fresher SLED data
AI is only as good as the data it reasons over. This quarter, Govly AI and MCP were paired with a SLED data layer that's both comprehensive and current, so the insights, summaries, and recommendations teams get back are as fresh as the sources feeding them, which, as of today, is very fresh.
What's next for Govly's SLED offering
Govly is bringing signal meetings and award data directly into the SLED inbox, moving from three separate surfaces to a single, holistic view of SLED activity: what's being discussed, what's being awarded, and what's coming up next, all in one place.
Frequently asked questions about Govly's SLED data
What is SLED data? SLED stands for state, local, and education, the segment of government contracting spanning state agencies, counties, municipalities, school districts, and public universities. SLED data typically includes contract opportunities, awards, and early signal sources like public meetings that precede a solicitation.
How often does Govly update its SLED data? Govly refreshes SLED award data on a two-month cadence, considerably more frequently than the quarterly updates common among competing platforms. Opportunity and signal-meeting data update continuously as new sources are ingested.
What geographic coverage does Govly provide for SLED opportunities? Govly tracks SLED opportunities across all 50 states, from the state level down to counties, municipalities, and K-12 school districts, through more than 5,100 live portals and 225 scrapers.
How many SLED award records does Govly track? As of July 2026, Govly's SLED awards corpus includes 23.2 million records, built from FOIA requests to 1,196 SLED entities, with about 90% of records from the last five years.
Can Govly forecast SLED opportunities before they're posted? Yes. Govly AI captures signal from public meetings like town halls and board sessions, and verifies deadlines and terms against attachment scans to forecast opportunities up to five years in advance.
How is Govly's SLED data different from other tracking platforms? Most SLED tracking platforms are built around a large historical archive and update on a quarterly cycle or slower. Govly is built around recency: a two-month refresh cadence, continuous ingestion of new opportunities and signal meetings, and an LLM-based pipeline that processes unstructured PDF files most platforms can't parse.
See it for your territory
Government contracting doesn't wait for quarterly updates, and increasingly, neither should your tools. Whether it's a county's overnight PDF backlog, a school board's town hall minutes, or a state portal that changed its layout last week, Govly's SLED data is built to keep up in real time, not catch up later.
See what real-time SLED coverage looks like for your territory: govly.com/sled
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