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*Govly | REMOTE (US) OR Part-remote in Santa Cruz, CA | Senior Fullstack Engineer, Founding Data Engineer/Scientist*

Govly is on a mission to streamline the public procurement process using AI, making it more efficient for both industry and government. We're a growing team passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems in the public sector.

*Roles:* - *Senior Fullstack Engineer* - *Founding Data Engineer/Scientist*

*Stack:* Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Elasticsearch, React, lots of Node/Crawlee services.

Both roles can apply to the [Product Engineer](https://ats.rippling.com/govly/jobs/e89ca17b-89a8-413b-8239-...) position as we don't have the Data Engineer role posted yet.

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Govly (YC S21) | REMOTE

* Product Engineer (Ruby/React + web crawling with crawlee.dev)

* Product Designer (With a strong interest in talking to users/research)

* Product Manager (With a strong interest in talking to users/research)

* Head of Finance

We're building a market network for government contractors and governments. We believe that creating a simple, transparent, and competitive public procurement system is critical to public sector efficacy and societal advancement. Come help us build it.

https://www.govly.com/careers

I feel like this must exist and I just haven’t found it, but I’d love a tool that can automate seeding a staging/local db from production.

It would need live in a vpc to access the prod db, but then expose itself to access slices of anonymized data that can be used to restore external dbs.

Essentially a configurable pgdump that includes the ability to anonymize personal info, take recent slices of data, and serve the data all in a way that still protects direct access to the original data.

Yep, this is an effort to make it easier for the government. By pre-approving contractors, they have fewer people they have to deal with. To be clear, anyone can become a prime contractor I.e. get access. It can just be pretty confusing and opportunities to apply for certain contracts can be as long as 10 years apart.

I think this is overly cynical. It's complex and wants to be transparent, but to be honest it's hard.

I believe all the DARPA opps will be in sam.gov, in which case the will be in the public version of Govly. If we're wrong here we'll definitely look into specific DARPA opps.

Looking into SBIR now...

Once we have a better understanding of our pricing we will definitely do this.

Though I can tell you that we have 0 marketing so at least anecdotally we're are not using your data

Thanks for pointing this out. This is not good and we'll make it better. I'm pretty sure it was a stock policy we threw up just to get going.

Two of the founders are also brothers :)

I was actually thinking about this comparison today! Having just onboarded with Vanta...

Not directly. Carahsoft actually pays for some of our customers' subscriptions to differentiate themselves from other distributors.

Trade weapons for cat7 cables and there are similarities :)

Thanks for the link. We think to only way to make progress is to get into the complexity and realize there are good and bad parts. Not just dismiss it as completely broken.

Hopefully this link won't be as relevant in 5 years as it is today (given it was posted 5 years ago :) )

- Primes are incentivized to participate for a number of reasons. First, it provides a way for them to efficiently manage their own processes--Getting out of Outlook and providing transparency internally. As well as the automation tools we reference.

The incentive for the primes to participate in the network, in the beginning, is competitive advantage. Primes are always trying to get new/more manufacturers/resellers/distributors to work with them. They can use Govly as a selling point similar to how insurance brokers might use their "easy to use employee portal" to differentiate themselves.

- As far as organizing contracts and contractors to identify relevant partnerships, there are a few ways we're thinking about this. One will be to tie award data to primes and allow people to analyze the award data of opportunities that would have been relevant to them in order to identify strong partners. On the other side, primes can use the analytics we surface with their data in order for them to identify up and coming product types/technologies/manufacturers in order to find new, cutting edge partnerships.

- We actually just got off a call discussing ratings/reputation. This is particularly interesting when manufacturers/resellers are deciding which primes to use. Prime A might be cheaper but has a history of paying late, while Prime B is more expensive but pays quickly. Ratings and reputation can play a big role here. This also changes the incentives of primes as the network grows because if more and more manufacturers/resellers are finding their contacts on Govly, there will be FOMO.

- The first step to supporting companies to learn how to sell to the government is education content. Once we're funded, part of the plan is to dedicate time and money creating accessible content for this purpose. We'll also manually facilitate connections in the beginning and work on ways to productize those connections so that a new manufacturer (broadly used to describe anyone selling to the gov) will be able to more easily identify partners/contacts who can help them through the process.

Except FedBizOps has fully transitioned to sam.gov

We're going to be working on all these things, but in the context of our network. We think this is the big differentiator from the typical players in the space who focus on analytics (like GovWin).

Thanks for the correction! Failed by a quick google search...

Our primary differentiation is the network--Being able to connect with your supply chain on the platform and find other potential partners to work with. This is what makes the proprietary data possible/compliant.

It does a bit of this now. More to come.

We see this quite a lot. Even worse is the maneuvering that can take place to make something look cheaper. This can happen when the government is procuring a complex list of things and trying to do so with one vendor. While the individual pieces can be much cheaper through multiple vendors, those vendors are not eligible to bid because they cannot fulfill the entire request.

We're trying to circumvent this with our collaboration tools--Allowing multiple companies to work together on a single bid.

This is a really cool concept. It looks like the pilot is specifically targeting low dollar contracts for software eng. I love this.