# Why to Link an Opportunity to an Existing Pursuit?

The most common reason for linking another record, such as an Award, to an existing Pursuit is when your Pursuit is a follow-on requirement to, or a recompete of, an existing contract or grant. 

Linking the GovTribe’s Award record of that existing contract to your Pursuit provides context for your current bid efforts, and improves the fidelity of the Likely Bidders projections GovTribe provides within your Pursuit. 

### How to Link a record to an Existing Pursuit

***To link a record to a Pursuit:***

**Step 1.**  Locate the opportunity, or award, that you would like to link.

**Step 2. C**lick the **Create Pursuit** button, followed by **Add to Existing Pursuit.** Finally select the appropriate Pursuit in the list provided.

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**Step 3.**  In the resulting *Link Pursuit* modal, indicate how you would like to link the record, based on the information contained in the record you are linking.

* Click **Overwrite** on any property you wish to replace with the new information.
* Click **Merge** if a given property allows for multiple values in it. (If Merge is not allowed it will be grayed out.)

**Step 4.**  Click **OK**.