Develop RFP Hunter: AI-Powered Procurement Platform

# Build an AI Agent for RFP Discovery, Document Analysis, and Opportunity Alerts

I am seeking an experienced AI automation developer to build **RFP Hunter**, a system that continuously finds public procurement opportunities, reads solicitation documents, organizes the information, and alerts users to relevant opportunities.

The long-term vision is a national procurement platform where opportunities are free to browse, agencies can upload solicitations, and businesses can subscribe to enhanced notifications and matching services.

## Initial Project: Working AI Sourcing Agent

The first priority is a reliable sourcing and document-processing system connected to a searchable website.

The system should:

**1. Find and monitor procurement opportunities**
- Monitor an agreed initial list of federal, state, DOT, county, city, utility, and public authority procurement sources.
- Use official APIs and feeds where available, supplemented by permitted website collection.
- Run on a configurable schedule and identify new notices, amendments, deadline changes, and closed opportunities.
- Maintain a source directory showing coverage, last successful check, and collection failures.
- Allow additional sources to be added efficiently.

**2. Read and organize solicitation documents**
- Process web pages, PDFs, Word documents, and scanned documents using OCR where needed.
- Extract the project title, agency, location, solicitation number, scope, service category, deadline, mandatory meetings, qualifications, submission instructions, and evaluation criteria.
- Produce concise AI summaries with references to the original documents.
- Flag missing or uncertain information for review.
- Detect duplicate listings while preserving amendments and related documents.

**3. Publish searchable opportunities**
- Store opportunities in a structured database.
- Provide a mobile-friendly website with free public browsing and filters for location, category, keywords, agency, and deadline.
- Give each opportunity a shareable page with its summary, key requirements, and official source link.
- Include an administrative dashboard to review records, correct information, and monitor system performance.

**4. Match opportunities and send alerts**
- Let users create profiles describing their services, geographic coverage, and interests.
- Match opportunities to those profiles using keyword filters and AI-assisted relevance scoring.
- Explain why an opportunity matches.
- Send configurable email digests and alerts for important changes without repeatedly sending duplicate notices.

## Future Platform Features

Please price these separately from the initial sourcing agent:

- Verified agency accounts for uploading and updating solicitations.
- AI extraction from agency-uploaded documents, with review before publication.
- Searchable company profiles and teaming partner discovery.
- Premium subscriptions for advanced alerts, matching, and team features.
- Advertising, sponsorships, and clearly labeled featured listings.
- A conversational search assistant that answers questions using collected solicitation documents and cites its sources.

The platform should ultimately accommodate all procurement categories. Initial testing can emphasize engineering, architecture, construction, consulting, project controls, and value engineering.

## Delivery and Ownership

I want a working pilot followed by phased expansion. Please propose a realistic initial source count and timeline based on the complexity of those sources.

Deliverables must include:

- Deployed application and functioning automated workflows.
- Source code and project accounts under my ownership.
- Documentation for adding sources and maintaining the system.
- Error logging, retries, backups, and collection monitoring.
- A clear breakdown of hosting, AI, OCR, email, and other recurring costs.
- Testing against real notices, including duplicates, amendments, scanned documents, and deadline changes.

Existing prototype materials may be available for review and potential reuse.

## Please Include in Your Bid

1. Examples of similar AI agents, procurement tools, or data collection systems you have built.
2. Your proposed technology stack and automation approach.
3. What will use AI versus conventional software, and why.
4. Your approach to accuracy, source citations, and uncertain information.
5. The number and types of procurement sources included in your initial price.
6. Fixed-price milestones, delivery dates, assumptions, and exclusions.
7. Estimated monthly operating costs and ongoing maintenance needs.
8. Separate pricing for the initial pilot and future platform features.

**Success means the system reliably finds real opportunities, accurately extracts their requirements, tracks changes, and delivers useful alerts with minimal routine manual work.**

Please begin your proposal by explaining how you would demonstrate this workflow using a small set of real procurement sources.