Create a teaming interest
Post a teaming interest on a federal contract opportunity, set whether you are looking for primes or subs, and let GovTribe generate your anonymous public profile.
Open the federal contract opportunity you want to team on, click the Teaming tab, and click Post your interest.
Teaming is available to GovTribe accounts where the feature has been enabled. See Choose the right GovTribe plan for plan details.
How teaming works
Teaming pairs two vendors who want to work together on the same federal contract opportunity. You post a teaming interest on each opportunity you care about, then send and receive anonymous teaming requests with other vendors who have the opposite role.
Every teaming interest takes one of two roles, which the modal labels as Find Subcontractors or Be a Subcontractor:
- Find Subcontractors posts a Prime teaming interest. You intend to lead the bid and want subcontractors to join your team.
- Be a Subcontractor posts a Sub teaming interest. You want to offer capabilities under another vendor's prime bid.
GovTribe matches you with vendors on the opposite side. Either side can send a teaming request to the other. The recipient sees the requester's anonymous profile, then accepts or declines. A conversation opens the moment the request is sent, so both vendors can message each other right away — anonymously, using public profile names. When the recipient accepts, both vendors see each other's company name and logo, and messaging continues in the same conversation with the revealed identities.
Post your interest from the opportunity
Open a Federal contract opportunity you are evaluating and click the Teaming tab. The tab shows how many vendors have already posted teaming interest on this opportunity. Click Post your interest to start.
The workflow is a guided multi-step form. Each step focuses on one decision or set of intake questions so you can move through it at your own pace. The modal title reflects the role you pick: Post your interest for this Federal Contract Opportunity for Find Subcontractors, or Join a Team for this Federal Contract Opportunity for Be a Subcontractor.
Choose how you want to participate. Pick Find Subcontractors if you intend to lead the bid and want subcontractors (a Prime interest). Pick Be a Subcontractor if you want to offer capabilities under another vendor's prime bid (a Sub interest). GovTribe matches you with vendors on the opposite side.
Choose the vendor profile you want to represent. Search for your company's vendor profile and select it. GovTribe pre-fills this with a saved preference or the vendor already linked to your account when one is available. Your vendor is not revealed to other vendors until a teaming request is accepted.
Answer the intake questions. The questions depend on your role. Find Subcontractors answers two required questions about your capture stage and subcontractor workshare expectations. Be a Subcontractor answers two required questions about your role and relevant experience, plus four optional questions about socioeconomic value, clearance and location, partner preferences, and staffing capacity.
Save your teaming interest. GovTribe sets the status to Open and makes the interest visible on the opportunity's Teaming tab.
As you fill out an intake question, GovTribe automatically suggests AI feedback on your draft when you move out of the answer field. The suggestions help you sharpen your response without changing what you actually save.
Pre-filled steps and saved preferences
GovTribe pre-fills your role and vendor whenever it can, so you usually start on the intake questions:
- Your role is filled from your saved teaming preference, or defaults to Be a Subcontractor the first time. If you respond to another vendor's interest from their card, GovTribe automatically picks the opposite role.
- Your vendor is filled from your saved preferred teaming vendor first, or from the vendor already linked to your account. If neither is available, type a vendor name or UEI in the search to choose one.
- When both your role and your vendor are pre-filled, the modal opens on the first intake question. You can still expand the earlier steps to change either choice.
- Whenever you pick a role or vendor in the modal, GovTribe saves it as your preferred teaming role and preferred teaming vendor for next time.
What happens after you post
- Your teaming interest appears on the opportunity's Teaming tab and on the Teaming page in your Your Interests rail under OPEN.
- GovTribe saves a generic public label on your interest — Looking for subcontractors for a Prime interest, or Looking for prime contractors for a Sub interest — and immediately starts an AI-assisted public name and summary in the background. While that runs, your public card shows Generating public profile.... You'll get a notification when your interest is live with its descriptive profile.
- Other vendors with the opposite role on the same opportunity can now send you teaming requests. New requests appear in the Conversations panel on your interest's detail page and as Teaming notifications.
- You can edit your interest later. Open it from the Your Interests rail, click Manage, then click Edit on the Your Public Profile card. Updating your intake answers regenerates the AI-assisted profile.
How GovTribe creates your public profile
After you create a teaming interest, GovTribe writes an anonymized public title and summary that other vendors see before they send you a teaming request. The generated text uses your selected role (Prime or Sub) and your intake-question answers as input. Your raw answers are never shown directly. GovTribe is designed to keep your vendor name and any unique identifiers out of the generated text, and it runs an extra check on the generated output that discards it if your vendor name slips through. When that check trips, your interest keeps the generic Looking for subcontractors or Looking for prime contractors label until a future regeneration succeeds.
The same public title and summary are what other vendors see on the opportunity's Teaming tab and on incoming teaming requests until a request is accepted. Only after the recipient accepts does GovTribe reveal your vendor name and logo. For more on what is and is not visible before acceptance, see Respond to teaming requests.
Teaming interest statuses
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Open | Your teaming interest is visible to compatible vendors and can receive teaming requests. |
| Matched | You have at least one accepted partnership on this interest. |
| Hidden | Your teaming interest is paused. Other vendors cannot find it and you stop receiving new requests, but your existing matches and conversations are unaffected. |
| Withdrawn | You have ended the teaming interest. It is removed from the opportunity's Teaming tab. |
You change the status from Manage on the interest's detail page. The available actions depend on the current status and your role — see Respond to teaming requests for how matching, locking in a team, and disbanding work in practice.
Common questions
Can I post a teaming interest for a federal grant opportunity?
The Teaming tab is available on federal contract opportunities only.
Can I edit my teaming interest after I post it?
Yes. Open the interest from the Your Interests rail, click Manage, then click Edit on the Your Public Profile card.
Why does the modal title say "Join a Team" instead of "Post your interest"?
The modal title reflects the role you picked. Be a Subcontractor opens as Join a Team for this Federal Contract Opportunity, while Find Subcontractors opens as Post your interest for this Federal Contract Opportunity. If you opened the modal by clicking Message on another vendor's card, the title is Send a message request to ... instead.
Why is the role or vendor already filled in when I open the modal?
GovTribe remembers your last teaming role and last teaming vendor and re-uses them next time. It also fills your vendor from the vendor already linked to your account when you have not chosen a preferred teaming vendor yet. If you opened the modal by clicking Message on another vendor's card, GovTribe pre-fills the opposite role automatically so you can team with that vendor.
Related articles
- Teaming: Review how Teaming works and the statuses you will encounter.
- Respond to teaming requests: Send and receive teaming requests, message partners, lock in a team, and disband when you need to.
- Federal contract opportunities: Search and review federal contract opportunities, including the Teaming tab on each opportunity.
Teaming
Use Teaming to find prime or subcontract partners on federal contract opportunities, exchange teaming requests, and message partners anonymously before identities are revealed on acceptance.
Respond to teaming requests
Send and receive teaming requests on your teaming interests, message partners anonymously, accept or decline, lock in a team, and withdraw or disband when you need to.