Forthcoming business book
Trillions
on the Table
How You Can Use Public Records and AI to Win Government Contracts
The government leaves a trail. Learn how to read it.
Awards. Contracts. Budgets. Board packets. Pricing. Incumbents. The evidence is scattered, but much of it is public. Trillions on the Table shows you how to find it, make sense of it, and use AI to work through it faster while keeping the judgment yours.
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Why trillions?
$2.7 trillion in government spending in 2025.
Federal, state and local governments spend at a scale few markets can match.
That is why there are Trillions on the Table.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Government Accountability Office, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Ways into government contracting
Two starting points. One paper trail.
Whether you are new to public-sector buying or already competing, the record behind the RFP is still the place to begin.
New to government contracting
Learn how agencies buy before you bid.
See what public records exist, how awards and budgets explain past purchases, and how to research an opportunity before you spend proposal time.
- How federal, state, and local buying leaves a trail
- Where to look first when you do not know the agency
- A practical path from curiosity to a first pursuit
Already competing
Pressure-test pursuits with the record.
Use award history, incumbents, pricing signals, and AI to check assumptions, improve bid/no-bid calls, and put proposal time where the evidence supports it.
- Reconstruct prior awards and buying patterns
- Compare incumbents, requirements, and pricing clues
- Keep judgment yours while AI works the document pile
The core idea
Government buying leaves a paper trail.
Government buying leaves records behind. Those records can tell you who won, what they were paid, what the agency cared about, and where your assumptions may be wrong.
01
Public records
Find contracts, award notices, budgets, meeting packets and other records that explain how an agency has bought before.
02
AI
Sort, compare and question large collections of records faster. Keep the judgment yours.
03
Competitive intelligence
Build a clearer picture of incumbents, pricing, requirements and the competition before you commit proposal time.
Look behind the RFP
By the time the RFP appears, the paper trail may already be years old.
Start with the record. Then work forward.
Reconstruct what happened
01Public records
→
02Past awards
→
03Incumbents
→
04Pricing
Read the pattern
05Past requirements
→
06Buying patterns
→
07Current opportunity
→
08Better decisions
Inside the book
Follow the paper trail before you bid.
Find
Find the evidence
Track down prior contracts, award records, budgets, board materials, incumbent information and procurement history.
Request
Ask for what isn't posted
Use federal FOIA and state or local public-record laws to request records that never made it onto an agency website.
Reconstruct
Reconstruct the competition
Read prior awards for clues about incumbents, pricing, requirements, competitors and buying habits.
Analyze
Use AI to work through the record
Compare documents, test assumptions and surface contradictions without handing over the final judgment.
Decide
Make better bid / no-bid calls
Put proposal time where the evidence supports the pursuit. Walk away earlier when it doesn't.
Repeat
Build a repeatable process
Keep the research, questions and lessons from one pursuit so the next one starts further ahead.
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Orders of 1,000+ include an on-site briefing for your organization.*
Michael Noffsinger will come to your organization and deliver a private briefing on using public records and AI to compete for government contracts.
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Partner package
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150-200 copies*For customers, members or a sponsored cohort.
90-minute workshopA private session on public records, award history and AI-assisted research.
Launch toolkitReader tools and templates for putting the book to work.
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*Final book count will be set after print and shipping costs are locked.
Reader tools
Tools you can use after you close the book.
The book explains the method. The working tools help you use it.
Public Records Request Library
Sample language and prompts for asking agencies for procurement records.
AwardForensics Workbook
A worksheet for piecing together prior awards, incumbents, pricing and requirements.
Contract Intelligence AI Prompts
Prompts for comparing records, testing assumptions and finding gaps that deserve another look.
Bid / No-Bid Worksheet
A decision sheet for pressure-testing a pursuit before the proposal team burns another week on it.
Also included:
Competitive Intelligence Worksheet · 90-Day Intelligence Plan · Intelligence Refinement Loop Guide
About the author
An investigator's approach to government contracting.
Michael Noffsinger is a former criminal investigator and digital forensics examiner with a master's degree in applied economics. He now works in AI and government contracting.
He spent more than 9 years investigating criminal cases. The work always came down to the same discipline: find the evidence, test the story, check the assumptions, make the call. He later spent approximately 6 years working in public procurement and contracting across San José State University, the City of Santa Clara, and the private sector.
Trillions on the Table applies that same investigative habit to public-sector buying.
Free starter resource
Get the Trillions starter kit.
A short set of resources for researching awards, public records and government-contract opportunities.
Trillions on the Table