One of the biggest moves the industry has seen in years brings together the largest AI automation platform for government contracting and the leading AI-powered market intelligence platform.
In what may be the most consequential acquisition the government contracting industry has seen in years, Procurement Sciences today announced the acquisition of HigherGov, bringing together its flagship Awarded AI platform with one of the fastest-growing and most widely used AI-powered market intelligence platforms in government contracting.
For years, the industry has been split between two halves of the same problem. On one side, contractors have used expensive market intelligence tools to find work. On the other, they have stitched together legacy proposal, capture, and BD systems to win it. The space between has been filled with spreadsheets, point tools, and manual research.
That gap closes today.
The combined platform now serves more than 3,000 government contractors, including close to half of the industry Top 100, and has contributed to more than $100 billion in AI-assisted awarded contracts. HigherGov is the front of the funnel. Awarded AI is the engine that converts opportunities into awards. Until today, no platform credibly covered both halves.
HigherGov will continue to operate as a standalone product for current users, with no immediate changes to how customers access or use the platform. Over time, customers will also have the option to add Awarded AI and connect HigherGov’s market intelligence directly into AI-powered capture, proposal, and business development workflows.
What the Acquisition Brings
This is the second major acquisition for Procurement Sciences, following the acquisition of Rogue AI, which accelerated the company’s agentic AI and labs division. The constraint on those agents has not been intelligence. It has been data.
“Data is the new oil, but in government contracting, the real advantage is turning opportunity, award, agency, competitor, teaming, and pricing intelligence into action. With HigherGov, we now have one of the most extensive government contracting data layers in the market across federal, state and local, grant, and historical award data. Paired with Awarded AI’s business-specific agents purpose-built to find, win, and deliver government contracts, that data becomes actionable for the workflows contractors use every day. That combination did not exist before today.” – Christian Ferreira, CEO, Procurement Sciences
HigherGov indexes opportunities, awards, agencies, contracting officers, competitors, services, parts and NSNs, contract vehicles, task orders, teaming partners, expert networks, and labor pricing across federal, state and local, and grant markets in all 50 states. For Procurement Sciences, this is the data foundation that turns Awarded AI’s agents from powerful into transformative.
Built on Experience
“We are a mission-driven company. Our leadership team has more than 500 years of combined experience in government contracting, and that depth is what has allowed us to build a platform tied to a real vision: changing how companies sell to the government, grounded in firsthand experience from people who have actually been in the trenches.” – Christian Ferreira, CEO, Procurement Sciences
What’s Coming Next
Integration between HigherGov and Awarded AI is planned to begin rolling out in the weeks following this announcement, starting with AI agents that pull live HigherGov forecasts, recompetes, and competitive intelligence directly into capture, proposal, and pricing workflows.
About Procurement Sciences
Procurement Sciences is the developer of Awarded AI, the FedRAMP-authorized AI-native growth platform for government contracting, serving more than 3,000 government contractors including close to half of the industry’s Top 100. Learn more at www.procurementsciences.com/learn/highergov.
About HigherGov
HigherGov is the leading AI-powered government market intelligence and opportunity discovery platform, covering federal opportunities and forecasts, state and local bids across all 50 states, grants, recompetes, contract vehicles, task orders, and labor-rate benchmarking. Learn more at highergov.com.
