You won the seat.
Now comes the hard part.

SEWP VI named 1,486 unique winners. That means more competition on every RFQ, hundreds of emails a day, and a mandatory Technical Refresh on every quote you submit. Whether you have held a SEWP seat for years or just won your first, the program got harder.

Govly has run it with more than half of all SEWP V primes.
We know what is coming.

What changed

The pool did not just grow. It multiplied.

SEWP V had 147 prime holders. SEWP VI named 1,486 unique winners, with 364 in Category A alone, where IT product resellers compete. The field you are quoting against before an agency ever reaches you is a different size now.

Each dot is a SEWP VI winner. One of them is you.
dots displaying the amount of SEWP VI award winners
Other category winners (1,122)
Category A (364)
You
1,486
Unique SEWP VI winners across three categories
364
Category A seats, where product resellers compete
$60B
SEWP VI contract ceiling
147 to 1,486
SEWP V holders to SEWP VI winners
Three things changed

If you were on SEWP V, the structure you knew is gone.

If you are new, here is what you are walking into.

01 / Structure
A new category structure

SEWP VI splits into three categories: Category A (IT product solutions), Category B (enterprise-wide solutions), and Category C (program-level services). Under SEWP V, scope overlapped across groups. That is no longer true. Your category now sets what you can sell and who you compete against.

02 / Scale
The pool multiplied

SEWP V had 147 prime holders. SEWP VI named 2,115 winners, including 364 in Category A alone. Agencies have a far wider field to choose from before they ever reach your quote.

03 / Speed
Response speed decides

With this many holders on the vehicle, the window to respond competitively is tighter. Quotes that arrive slow, incomplete, or with TR errors are easy to pass over when the agency has hundreds of alternatives.

Technical Refresh

The compliance step most new holders miss, until it costs them a deal.

1
An agency posts an RFQ on SEWP
You receive the opportunity and the clock starts immediately.
2
Every quote requires a Technical Refresh
Products on your catalog must be current, compliant, and accurately reflected. No exceptions.
3
Get it wrong and you auto-lose, or worse
Non-compliant TRs do not just cost you the deal. Patterns of errors threaten your standing on the entire contract.
4
Govly automates the entire TR
We have processed 90,581 of them. You submit a quote, the TR goes with it. That is it.

Every quote you submit on SEWP requires a Technical Refresh. It is not optional, and it does not get easier because the pool got bigger. Miss it, submit it wrong, or let it lapse, and you do not just lose the order. You put your standing on the contract at risk.

90,581
Technical Refreshes automated on Govly, and counting
66
Govly customers who won SEWP VI seats
>50%
of SEWP V primes used Govly to manage their catalog
Day 1
Go live on Govly. Our CS team gets you up to speed.
When we switched to Govly, we increased our bid rate by 22%, which led to millions more in revenue.
Tracy Mills
Federal CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
SEWP VI holder
It's the best software tool in the Federal GovCon space. They ingest several of the large Government Contracts procurements in the IT Space.
Jennifer Gallagher
Executive and Managing Director at
CTG Federal (SEWP VI holder)

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