Claim and feature your vendor profile
Claim your vendor profile so your company can add a tagline, capability statement, teaming interest, contact email, and custom logo that help agencies and contractors understand how to work with you.
Open Vendors, find your company profile, and click Claim this Vendor when the action is available.
Vendor profile claiming is available on Growth, Growth Plus, and Scale.
Claiming your vendor profile helps your company add a customer-managed layer to the GovTribe vendor record. GovTribe still shows source-backed registration, award, grant, vehicle, and market context, but a claim lets your team explain how you want agencies and potential partners to understand your capabilities.
Use a claimed profile when you want your company to be easier to recognize in vendor search, easier to contact from the profile, and clearer about whether you are looking for prime contracting work, subcontracting work, or both.
If you are trying to understand why a profile exists, why source-backed company details look outdated, or how the connected company profile differs from a claimed profile, see Understand vendor profile connections.
Why claiming your vendor matters
A vendor profile is often where a GovTribe user lands after finding your company in search, reviewing an award, comparing similar vendors, or looking for a teaming partner. Claiming the profile gives that audience a concise statement from your team instead of leaving the profile to rely only on source data and generated summaries.
Claiming can help you:
- Make the profile recognizable with a custom logo and short tagline.
- Summarize your fit with a capability statement written for government contracting readers.
- Invite partner outreach by listing your teaming interest as Prime Contracting, Subcontracting, or both.
- Give readers a direct contact option through the profile's point-of-contact email.
- Stand out in vendor research because claimed vendors can appear as featured vendor profiles and may be emphasized in search results.
Find vendors by teaming interest
The Vendors search page includes a Teaming Interest filter. Use it when you want to find companies that have claimed a profile and said they are interested in prime contracting, subcontracting, or both.
Open Vendors. Go to Vendors, then select Add Filter.
Choose Teaming Interest. In the filter list, choose Teaming Interest.
Select the partner role. Choose Prime Contracting, Subcontracting, or both, then close the filter dialog to review matching vendors.
After the filter is applied, the active filter appears above the result cards. Each result is a vendor that matches the selected teaming interest.
Start a vendor claim
Open the vendor profile that represents your company. If the profile is not already claimed and your account can claim vendors, the profile header includes Claim this Vendor.
Selecting Claim this Vendor opens the claim form. It does not claim the vendor by itself. The claim is created only when you complete the form and select Save.
Write a profile that markets your company clearly
Treat the claim as a short profile pitch for agencies, primes, subcontractors, consultants, and business-development teams researching your company in GovTribe.
| Field | How to use it |
|---|---|
| Tagline | Write a short slogan or positioning statement. Use plain language that a buyer or partner can understand quickly. |
| Capability Statement | Summarize what your company does well, the missions you support, and the type of work you want readers to associate with your company. Keep it specific enough to help searchers decide whether to open the profile. |
| Teaming Interest | Select Prime Contracting if you want to be found as a potential prime. Select Subcontracting if you want to be found as a potential subcontractor. Select both when both roles fit your strategy. |
| Point of Contact | Use the email address readers should contact about your company, capabilities, or teaming interest. This becomes the profile's contact action. |
| Custom Logo | Upload a company logo so the vendor profile is easier to recognize. GovTribe accepts JPG/JPEG, GIF, or PNG images with a minimum size of 50 by 50 pixels and a maximum file size of 512KB. |
Before saving, read the profile as if you were a contracting officer, prime, or potential teaming partner seeing your company for the first time. The strongest claims explain the company clearly without trying to cover every possible service line.
Use a contact email GovTribe can accept
The point-of-contact email should be a business email address that your company monitors for capabilities, partnering, or vendor-profile questions. Avoid personal, disposable, undeliverable, or temporary addresses when a company email is available.
If GovTribe rejects the point-of-contact email, confirm the address is typed correctly and use a monitored work email address. If your company uses a shared inbox or does not have a company-domain email, collect the vendor name, UEI or CAGE code when available, rejected contact email, and the reason that email should appear on the profile before contacting support.
For the same email requirements that apply during account setup, see Troubleshoot GovTribe account access.
Review the featured profile
After a claim is saved, GovTribe can show a Featured Vendor panel on the vendor profile. The panel displays the tagline, capability statement, teaming interest, and a contact action.
Use this panel as a quick quality check. Confirm the tagline is easy to scan, the capability statement explains your strongest fit, the teaming interest matches your business-development strategy, and the contact email routes to the right person or team.
Keep the profile current
Update your claim when your strategy changes. Useful times to review the profile include a new vehicle award, a new agency focus, a change in teaming posture, a new primary contact, or a logo refresh.
If your account owns the claim, the vendor profile can show My Vendor instead of Claim this Vendor. Use that control to manage the existing claim rather than creating a new one.
Related articles
- Vendors: Review vendor profiles, identifiers, certifications, actions, and related activity.
- Understand vendor profile connections: See how claimed profiles, related records, and vendor context connect.
- Choose a search mode and write queries: Build searches that help you find vendor and market context.
- Filter by related records and hierarchies: Understand related-record filters used in vendor and agency research.
Understand vendor profile connections
Understand how GovTribe connects your user account to a company profile, how that differs from claiming a vendor profile, and what to do when the wrong company appears.
Choose a search mode and write queries
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