Use favorites

Save vendors, agencies, categories, files, and other supported records so you can return to important GovTribe research later.

Use favorites when you want to keep a record close at hand without changing the underlying source record. For government contracting teams, favorites are useful for tracking vendors, agencies, NAICS categories, vehicle programs, files, and other records you expect to revisit during market research, partner review, capture planning, or repeat search work.

What favorites do

Favorites save a supported GovTribe record to your user account. The record itself does not change, and favoriting a record does not create a pursuit, save the whole search, or notify another user.

When you favorite a record, GovTribe updates the heart control on that record and includes it when you use View Favorites on the same kind of search page. When you remove the favorite, the record is no longer included in your favorited view.

Favorites are record-specific

View Favorites works within the page you are using. On Vendors, it shows your favorite vendors. On NAICS Categories, it shows your favorite NAICS categories. It is not one combined list of every favorite across GovTribe.

Favorite a vendor from search results

On supported search pages, result cards include a heart button. Vendors is a common place to use this workflow when you are building a company watchlist, comparing potential teaming partners, or saving competitors you want to revisit.

Vendors search page with the View Favorites action and vendor result cards — Vendors includes a page-level View Favorites action and result cards you can save for later review.

Open Vendors. Go to Vendors.

Find a vendor to track. Search, filter, or sort until you find the vendor you want to save.

Add the vendor to your favorites. Use the heart button on the vendor card.

Remove the vendor when needed. Use the same heart button again when you no longer want the vendor in your favorites.

Vendor result card favorite button with favorite count badge — The heart saves or removes the record. The number beside it is the record's overall favorite count.

Understand the favorite count

The number beside the heart is a favorite count for that record. Treat it as a lightweight popularity or saved-interest signal: a higher count means the record has more favorite activity.

The count is different from your personal saved state:

Outlined heart: You have not saved this record as a favorite.
Filled heart: You have saved this record as a favorite.
Favorite count: The visible count for that record's favorite activity. It is not the number of records in your personal favorites list.

When you add a favorite, the count on the card increases. When you remove a favorite, the count decreases. If you remove a record while you are already viewing a favorites-only result set, GovTribe refreshes the results so the removed record no longer appears in that filtered view.

Favorite from a detail page

You can also favorite a record after you open it. This is useful when you review the full vendor profile, confirm identifiers such as UEI, compare related awards or vehicles, and then decide the vendor should be easy to reopen later.

Vendor detail page header with favorite button and favorite count — Detail pages keep the favorite button near the record header so you can save the record after reviewing it.

Open a supported record. Use a vendor, agency, category, file, program, or another record type that supports favorites.

Review the detail page. Confirm it is the record you want to keep.

Save the record. Use the heart button in the page header.

Remove the record when needed. Use the same button again to remove it from your favorites.

View only your favorites

Use View Favorites when you want the current search page to show only records you saved. This is especially helpful after you have built a shortlist and want to work from the records that matter to your current task.

NAICS Categories page with View Favorites active and the Favorited filter badge visible — When View Favorites is active, the heart action is highlighted and the Favorited filter appears above the results.

Open a search page that supports favorites. Use a page such as Vendors, Federal agencies, or NAICS categories.

Turn on View Favorites. Click the page-level heart action near the search controls.

Confirm the filtered view. Make sure the Favorited filter appears above the results.

Work from your favorites. Continue searching, sorting, filtering, exporting, or sharing from that favorites-only result set.

Return to all results. Click the heart action again, remove the Favorited filter, or reset the page.

Use favorites in contracting research

Favorites work best as a lightweight shortlist. Use them when a record is worth revisiting but does not need the heavier workflow of a pursuit, saved search, report, or export yet.

Common government contracting uses include:

Vendor watchlists: Save companies you want to monitor as competitors, partners, suppliers, incumbents, or possible teaming targets.
Agency monitoring: Favorite agencies or offices that matter to your market so you can return to their opportunities, awards, files, and contacts.
Category tracking: Favorite NAICS, PSC, NIGP, or UNSPSC categories that define your core markets or adjacent growth areas.
Vehicle and program review: Favorite contract vehicles, grant programs, or major defense programs that you need to reopen during capture planning.
Repeat file review: Favorite government files or user files you need to return to while building a proposal, compliance review, or account plan.

Use favorites alongside other GovTribe tools:

See Use saved searches when the whole query, filters, and sort should be reusable.
Use Create pursuits from records when a record should become active capture work.
Use Export search results when you need to review a filtered set outside GovTribe.
Use Share a search when another GovTribe user should open the same search result set.

Vendors: Save vendor profiles for partner, competitor, supplier, and market research.
Federal agencies: Track agencies and offices connected to your federal market.
NAICS categories: Save category codes that define markets you revisit often.
Use saved searches: Return to a reusable search query, filter set, and sort.
Create pursuits from records: Move a record into capture work when it becomes an active opportunity.