M Mindy for Government
The Mindy Institute for Public Procurement

Help more qualified small businesses discover your opportunities.

Mindy helps public agencies reach qualified small businesses beyond traditional procurement channels — using AI-powered supplier intelligence, not another posting board.

The reframe: agencies don't have a posting problem — they have a discovery problem. The proof: a 38% smaller supplier base, and 79% fewer new entrants.
The idea worth 30 seconds

Every procurement office has a posting problem.
We think they have a discovery problem.

Posting isn't the hard part
Solicitations get published. The system assumes the right vendors will find them — and hopes they do.
The Competition Gap

The dollars are flowing. The supplier base is shrinking.

Federal agencies exceeded the 23% small-business goal — a record 28.4%, or $178.6 billion, in FY2023. But that headline hides where the money actually goes: to a smaller and smaller pool of the same firms.

−38%
decline in small businesses providing common products and services to the federal government, 2010–2019.
Bipartisan Policy Center, 2021
−79%
decline in new small-business entrants into federal contracting, 2005–2019.
CSIS + SBA, via BPC 2021
−43%
fewer small-business vendors at DoD — from 42,723 in 2011 to 24,296 in 2020 — even as SB dollars rose.
GAO‑22‑104621
The increase in small-business dollars obscures that there is less small-business opportunity.
— SBA official, quoted in the Bipartisan Policy Center's procurement-reform report (2021)
What changes

From hope they find it to make sure they do.

Today
Agency writes the requirement
Posts the solicitation
Hopes the right vendors find it
Result: the same incumbents bid. Competition stays flat.
vs
With Mindy
Agency defines the requirement
Mindy identifies qualified suppliers — including new entrants
Suppliers discover the opportunity
Result: more competition. Better procurement outcomes.
How Mindy works

Supplier intelligence, not another portal.

01

Map the real market

Mindy reads federal award history, capability signals, and registration data to build a live picture of which firms can actually deliver a given requirement — not just who happens to be watching the board.

02

Surface qualified suppliers

For any requirement, Mindy identifies capable small businesses by what they've done and what they can do — including new entrants who've never been in your pipeline.

03

Close the discovery gap

Those suppliers get pointed to the opportunity, so the right firms respond. More qualified bids, broader participation, measurable competition — on the requirements you choose.

Why it matters

Competition is the outcome agencies are measured on — and the one hardest to move.

Better pricing & outcomes

More qualified bidders per requirement is the most direct lever on price, quality, and delivery risk that a contracting office controls.

Real small-business participation

Not just hitting a dollar goal — expanding the actual number of firms competing, including the new entrants the government has been losing.

A resilient supplier base

OMB has already named this a priority in "Creating a More Diverse and Resilient Federal Marketplace." Discovery is how you get there.

Pilot program

Run a discovery pilot on one real requirement.

Pick a solicitation. We'll show you the qualified suppliers your current channels are missing — and measure the difference in competition. No procurement change required to start.

A program of The Mindy Institute for Public Procurement