Terms of Use

Legaleze and administrative requirements

Thank you for using the GovTribe website and associated services (“Services”). These Terms of Use (“TOU” or “Terms”) contain the terms under which GovTribe provides Services to you and describe how the Services may be accessed and used.

You indicate your agreement to these Terms by clicking or tapping on a button indicating your acceptance of these Terms, by executing a document that references them, or by using the Services. If you don’t agree to any portion of the Terms, or the Terms as a whole, please discontinue the use of the Services in any form.

If you will be using the Services on behalf of an organization, you agree to these Terms on behalf of that organization and you represent that you have the authority to do so. In such case, “you” and “your” will refer to that organization.

1. Fees and Payments

1.1. Fees for Services

You agree to pay to GovTribe any fees for each Service you purchase or use in accordance with the pricing and payment terms presented to you for that Service. Where applicable, you will be billed using the billing method you select at the time of purchase. Fees paid by you are non-refundable, except as provided in these Terms or when required by law.

1.2. Subscriptions

Some of our Services are billed on a subscription basis (we call these “Subscriptions”). This means that you will be billed in advance on a recurring, periodic basis (each period is called a “billing cycle”). Billing cycles are typically monthly or annual, depending on which subscription plan you select when purchasing a Subscription. Your Subscription will automatically renew at the end of each billing cycle unless you cancel auto-renewal from the Account Settings page of your GovTribe account. While we will be sad to see you go, you may cancel auto-renewal on your Subscription at any time, in which case your Subscription will continue until the end of that billing cycle before terminating. GovTribe does not provide refunds for unused portions of a Subscription period for cancellations within that Subscription period.

1.3. Taxes

Unless otherwise stated, you are responsible for any taxes (other than GovTribe’s income tax) or duties associated with the sale of the Services, including any related penalties or interest (collectively, “Taxes”). You will pay GovTribe for the Services without any reduction for Taxes.

1.4. Price Changes

GovTribe may change the fees charged for the Services at any time, provided that, for Services billed on a subscription basis, the change will become effective only at the end of the then-current billing cycle of your Subscription. GovTribe will provide you with reasonable prior written notice of any change in fees to give you an opportunity to cancel your Subscription before the change becomes effective.

2. Privacy

2.1. Privacy

In the course of using the Services, you may submit content to GovTribe including personal data, company data, work product, and information related to your business development and market research (“Content”). We know that by storing your Content on GovTribe, you are trusting us to treat it appropriately. GovTribe’s Privacy Policy, together with any Service-specific data use policies, privacy statements and privacy notices (collectively, “privacy policies”), detail how we treat your Content and personal data and we agree to adhere to those privacy policies.

2.2. Confidentiality

GovTribe will treat your Content as confidential information and only use and disclose it in accordance with these Terms (including our privacy policies). However, your Content is not regarded as confidential information if such Content: (a) is already or becomes public (other than through breach of these Terms by GovTribe); (b) was lawfully known to GovTribe before receiving it from you; (c) is received by GovTribe from a third party without knowledge of breach of any obligation owed to you; or (d) was independently developed by GovTribe without reference to your Content.

2.3. Your Content

You retain ownership of all of your intellectual property rights in your Content. GovTribe does not claim ownership over any of your Content. These Terms do not grant us any licenses or rights to your Content except for the limited rights needed for us to provide the Services, and as otherwise described in these Terms.

3. GovTribe IP

3.1. GovTribe IP

Neither these Terms nor your use of the Services grants you ownership of the Services or the information you access through the Services (other than your Content). These Terms do not grant you any right to use GovTribe’s trademarks or other brand elements.

4. Government Information Sources

4.1. Government Data

GovTribe Services involve the display of information made publicly available by the government through a variety of sources. This data is not owned by GovTribe or created by GovTribe. Such information is the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available, and the completeness and accuracy of that information as represented in GovTribe’s Services is entirely dependent on the completeness and accuracy of the original government sources. GovTribe cannot be held liable for inaccuracies in, and will not modify, the information obtained from those government sources based on the request of a site visitor or user of the Services.

4.2. Federal Forecast, Opportunity, and Award Data Sources

GovTribe data comes from a number of public federal government sources. Federal Forecast data is obtained from Commerce.gov, GSA.gov, NASA.gov, DHS.gov, and USAID.gov every 24 hours. Federal contract opportunity data is obtained from Sam.gov (previously FBO.gov) and its associated feeder sites, and updated every 15 minutes. Federal grant opportunity data is obtained from grants.gov and updated every 24 hours. Federal contract award data is obtained from FPDS.gov and Sam.gov and is updated every 24 hours. Federal grant award data is obtained from usaspending.gov and is updated every 24 hours. Federal subcontract award data is obtained from usaspending.gov and is updated every 24 hours. GovTribe also references the GAO's protest docket and uses several agency-specific sources and public APIs to add additional information to the Services.

4.3. Federal Vendor Registration Data

Vendor information on GovTribe comes from the System for Award Management (SAM.gov), which is where companies that sell to the government are required to register their business information. Vendor data is updated daily using a Public Data Package file provided by SAM.gov per the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). GovTribe’s policy is full transparency regarding companies that are registered to do business with the federal government via contracts or grants. As such, GovTribe publishes everything that is in SAM.gov's Public Data Package file. Information about the Public Data Package file can be found by going to SAM.gov and clicking on the Data Access tab. The daily file can be found about halfway down the page (in a box titled "Daily File"). If any company information is incorrect needs to be updated for other reasons, GovTribe recommends that a company representative update the SAM.gov profile. Changes will flow through to GovTribe once they make it in to the Public Data Package file.

4.4 State and Local Opportunity Data Sources

GovTribe data comes from a variety of available public state and local sources. Every state has their own unique site(s) and systems to store this information. The data is obtained and updated from the sources every 24 hours. The sources for each state available in GovTribe can be found below:

State	Source
Alabama	AlabamaBuys.gov
Alaska	Online Public Notices
Arizona	Show public request for proposals
Arkansas	Arkansa buy
California	Cal eProcure
Colorado	Colorado Vendor Self Service (VSS)
Connecticut	CTsource Bid Board
Delaware	Bid Solicitation Directory
Florida	My Florida Marketplace
Georgia	Georgia Procurement Registry
Hawaii	HIePRO State of Hawaii eProcurement
Idaho	State of Idaho eProcurement System
Indiana	IDOA
Iowa	State of Iowa Bid Opportunities
Illinois	Illinois BidBuy
Kansas	Kansas eSupplier
Kentucky	Kentucy Vendor Self Service (VSS)
Louisiana	LaPAC
Maine	Maine Vendor Self Service (VSS)
Maryland	eMaryland Marketplace Advantage (eMMA)
Massachusetts	Mass CommBuys
Michigan	Michigan Sigma
Minnesota	Minnesota Supplier Systems
Mississippi	MS.gov
Missouri	https://missouribuys.mo.gov/bidboard
Montana	Montana Acquisition & Contracting System (eMACS)
Nebraska	https://das.nebraska.gov/
Nevada	Nevada ePro
New Jersey	NJ Start.gov
New Hampshire	New Hampshire Statewide Bids and Proposals
New Mexico	State Purchasing Division
New York	NY State Contract Reporter
North Carolina	NC eVP (electronic vendor portal)
North Dakota	ND.Gov
Ohio	OhioBuys
Oklahoma	https://oklahoma.gov
Oregon	OregonBuys.gov
Pennsylvania	PA eMarketplace
Rhode Island	Rhode Island Bidding Opportunities
South Carolina	SC Procurement System
South Dakota	Current Opportunities - South Dakota State Government
Tenessee	Tennessee Department of General Services
Texas	TX Smart Buy
Utah	Utah Public Procurement Place (U3P)
Vermont	Vermont Business Registry Open Bids
Virginia	eVA
Washington State	WEBS
West Virginia	WV OASIS
Wisconsin	Wisconsin Vendor Net
Wyoming	Wyoming Public Purchase

5. Account Management

5.1. Keep Your Password Secure

If you have been issued an account by GovTribe in connection with your use of the Services, you are responsible for safeguarding your password and any other credentials used to access that account. You, and not GovTribe, are responsible for any activity occurring in your account (other than activity that GovTribe is directly responsible for which is not performed in accordance with the Customer’s instructions or activities), whether or not you authorized that activity. If you become aware of any unauthorized access to your account, you should notify GovTribe immediately.

5.2. Account Usage

User logins to access the GovTribe website may be used by one individual per unique login, and may not be shared. If an individual user login is shared among more than one individual, GovTribe may cancel the associated account with no prior notice, without allowing you to export your personal or company data, and without any obligation to refund any payments made to GovTribe.

5.3. Account Inactivity

GovTribe may terminate your account and delete any Content contained in it if there is no account activity (such as a log in event or payment) for over 12 months. However, we will attempt to warn you by email before terminating your account to provide you with an opportunity to log in to your account so that it remains active.

6. Acceptable Uses

6.1. Legal Compliance

You must use the Services in compliance with, and only as permitted by, applicable law.

6.2. Conduct and Communications

You are responsible for your conduct, Content, and communications with others while using the Services. GovTribe is not responsible for these things.

6.3. Misuse of Services

You may not misuse our Services by interfering with their normal operation, or attempting to access them using a method other than through the interfaces and instructions that we provide. You may not circumvent or attempt to circumvent any limitations that GovTribe imposes on your account. This includes creating multiple user accounts to circumvent the two-week free trial limitation, or by modifying cookies or other system information to circumvent the anonymous page views limitation.

6.4 Automated Decision Making and Profiling Prohibited

GovTribe recognizes the significance of protecting individuals from automated decision-making processes, including profiling, which can significantly affect them. This section outlines our commitment to upholding these protections. Automated decision-making refers to decisions made about individuals that are solely based on automated processes without human intervention. Profiling involves automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects of an individual, particularly to analyze or predict aspects concerning that individual's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements.

GovTribe strictly prohibits the use of personal data in automated decision-making processes, including profiling, in a way that produces legal effects concerning the individual or similarly significantly affects them. This includes, but is not limited to, decisions that may lead to the exclusion or discrimination of individuals.

6.5. Programmatic Exploitation

Unless authorized by GovTribe in writing, you may not probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any GovTribe system or network. You may not deny others access to, or reverse engineer, the Services, or attempt to do so. You may not transmit any viruses, malware, or other types of malicious software, or links to such software, through the Services.

6.6. Abusive and Excessive Usage

You may not engage in abusive or excessive usage of the Services, which is usage significantly in excess of average usage patterns that adversely affects the speed, responsiveness, stability, availability, or functionality of the Services for other users. This includes using automated methods for scraping GovTribe data, excessively downloading GovTribe site content (especially for the purposes of mass emailing people using any contact information available on GovTribe). GovTribe will endeavor to notify you of any abusive or excessive usage to provide you with an opportunity to reduce such usage to a level acceptable to GovTribe, however we reserve the right to terminate your account and block you from further usage without notice or a refund of any payments made.

6.7 Intellectual Property

You may not use the Services to infringe the intellectual property rights of others, or to commit an unlawful activity.

6.8 Resale of Information or Services

Unless authorized by GovTribe in writing, you may not resell or lease the Services or any analytical information extracted from GovTribe. Further, you may not leverage a Subscription to GovTribe to provide services similar to the Services provided by GovTribe to other individuals who are not GovTribe subscribers. This includes forwarding e-mail notifications, allowing others to use your login information, or otherwise leveraging GovTribe’s intellectual property or Services to sell your own services, without obtaining prior authorization from GovTribe.

7. Suspension and Termination of Services

7.1. By You

If you terminate a Subscription in the middle of a billing cycle, you will not receive a refund for any period of time you did not use in that billing cycle unless you are terminating the Agreement for our breach and have so notified us in writing, or unless a refund is required by law.

7.2. By GovTribe

GovTribe may limit, suspend, or stop providing the Services to you if you fail to comply with these Terms (such as a failure to pay fees when due), or if you use the Services in a way that causes legal liability to us or disrupts others’ use of the Services. GovTribe may also suspend providing the Services to you if we are investigating suspected misconduct by you. If we suspend or terminate the Services you receive, we will endeavor to give you advance notice but are under no obligation to do so. GovTribe has no obligation to retain your Content upon termination of the applicable Service.

7.3. Further Measures

If GovTribe stops providing the Services to you because you repeatedly or egregiously breach these Terms, GovTribe may take measures to prevent the further use of the Services by you, including blocking your IP address.

8. Changes and Updates

8.1. Changes to Terms

GovTribe may change these Terms at any time for a variety of reasons, such as to reflect changes in applicable law or updates to Services, and to account for new Services or functionality. Any changes will be posted to the location at which those terms appear. GovTribe may also provide notification of changes on the website, the GovTribe blog, or via email. Changes will be effective no sooner than the day they are publicly posted. In order for certain changes to become effective, applicable law may require GovTribe to obtain your consent to such changes, or to provide you with sufficient advance notice of them. If you do not want to agree to any changes made to the terms for a Service, you should stop using that Service, because by continuing to use the Services you indicate your agreement to be bound by the updated terms.

8.2. Changes to Services

GovTribe constantly changes and improves the Services. GovTribe may add, alter, or remove functionality from a Service at any time without prior notice. GovTribe may also limit, suspend, or discontinue a Service at its discretion. If GovTribe discontinues a Service, we will give you reasonable advance notice to provide you with an opportunity to export a copy of your Content from that Service. GovTribe may remove information from the Services at any time in our sole discretion, although we will endeavor to notify you before we do that if it materially impacts you and if practicable under the circumstances.

9. Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability

9.1. Disclaimers

While it is in GovTribe’s interest to provide you with a great experience when using the Services (and we love to please our customers), there are certain things we do not promise about them. We try to keep our online Services up, but they may be unavailable from time to time for various reasons. Except as expressly provided in these terms and to the extent permitted by applicable law, the services are provided “as is” and GovTribe does not make warranties of any kind, express, implied, or statutory.

9.2. Exclusion of Certain Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, GovTribe, its affiliates, officers, employees, agents, suppliers, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, consequential, special, incidental, punitive, or exemplary damages whatsoever, including damages for lost profits, loss of use, loss of data, arising out of or in connection with the services and these terms, and whether based on contract, tort, strict liability, or any other legal theory, even if GovTribe has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

9.3. Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of each of GovTribe, its affiliates, officers, employees, agents, suppliers, and licensors arising out of or in connection with the services and these terms will not exceed the greater of: (a) the amounts paid by you to GovTribe for use of the services at issue during the 3 months prior to the event giving rise to the liability; and (b) US$20.00.

9.4. Consumers

We acknowledge that the laws of certain jurisdictions provide legal rights to consumers that may not be overridden by contract or waived by those consumers. If you are such a consumer, nothing in these Terms limits any of those consumer rights.

9.5. Businesses

If you are a business, you will indemnify and hold harmless GovTribe and its affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from all liabilities, damages, and costs (including settlement costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of a third party claim regarding or in connection with your use of the Services or a breach of these Terms, to the extent that such liabilities, damages and costs were caused by you.

10. Contracting Entity

10.1. Who you are contracting with

Unless otherwise specified in relation to a particular Service, the Services are provided by, and you are contracting with, GovTribe Inc.

10.2. GovTribe Inc

For any Service provided by GovTribe Inc., the following provisions will apply to any terms governing that Service:

• Contracting Entity. References to “GovTribe”, “we”, “us”, and “our” are references to GovTribe Inc., located at 3100 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201, USA.

• Governing Law. Those terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia (without regard to its conflict of laws provisions).

• Jurisdiction. Except if prohibited by applicable law, each party submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state courts located in Arlington, Virginia, and the federal courts located in the Eastern District of Virginia with respect to the subject matter of those terms.

11. Other Terms

11.1. Assignment

You may not assign these Terms without GovTribe’s prior written consent, which may be withheld in GovTribe’s sole discretion. GovTribe may assign these Terms at any time without notice to you.

11.2. Entire Agreement

These Terms (including the Additional Terms) constitute the entire agreement between you and GovTribe, and they supersede any other prior or contemporaneous agreements, terms and conditions, written or oral concerning its subject matter. Any terms and conditions appearing on a purchase order or similar document issued by you do not apply to the Services, do not override or form a part of these Terms, and are void.

11.3. Independent Contractors

The relationship between you and GovTribe is that of independent contractors, and not legal partners, employees, or agents of each other.

11.4. Interpretation

The use of the terms “includes”, “including”, “such as”, and similar terms, will be deemed not to limit what else might be included.

11.5. No Waiver

A party’s failure or delay to enforce a provision under these Terms is not a waiver of its right to do so later.

11.6. Precedence

To the extent any conflict exists, the Additional Terms prevail over this TOU with respect to the Services to which the Additional Terms apply.

11.7. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is determined to be unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be severed and the remainder of terms will remain in full effect.

11.8. Third Party Beneficiaries

There are no third party beneficiaries to these Terms.