BREAKING: Procurement Sciences surpasses $100B in AI-assisted awarded contracts $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors closes oversubscribed Acquires market-intelligence platform HigherGov, May 2026 Now serving 3,000+ government contractors Four of the top 10 defense & aerospace primes on board Revenue up 10x since Series A Founded 2022 in Washington, D.C. by Marine vet Christian Ferreira
Company Profile / GovCon & AI

Procurement Sciences AI

The AI-native operating system built to help businesses find, win and deliver government contracts.

Founded 2022 Washington, D.C. Series B - $30M 3,000+ contractors
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PSci.AI - the logo of Procurement Sciences, the Washington, D.C. software company whose Awarded AI platform now underpins more than $100 billion in AI-assisted government contract awards.

The Dispatch

Rewiring how America wins government work

Every year, roughly a trillion dollars of government work is up for grabs - and much of it still moves on Word documents, spreadsheets and the tribal knowledge of overworked proposal teams. A request for proposal lands, a clock starts, and small companies scramble to assemble compliant responses in a window measured in days. Procurement Sciences, a Washington, D.C. company founded in 2022, set out to change the shape of that scramble.

Its product, Awarded AI, is pitched as an AI-native platform for the entire government contracting lifecycle: finding opportunities, deciding which to chase, drafting the proposal, checking it for compliance, and delivering the work. The premise is simple and blunt. As founder and CEO Christian Ferreira puts it, "work that once took weeks now takes minutes."

That claim would be easy to dismiss as software marketing, except for the numbers now attached to it. After acquiring the market-intelligence platform HigherGov in May 2026, Procurement Sciences says its combined tools serve more than 3,000 government contractors - including close to half of the industry Top 100 - and have contributed to over $100 billion in AI-assisted awarded contracts.

By The Numbers

The scoreboard

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Series B raised, Nov 2025
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Revenue growth since Series A

Figures reported by the company at its November 2025 Series B and its May 2026 acquisition of HigherGov. Contract-award figures are AI-assisted totals across the combined platform.

What It Does

From bid search to signed contract, on one platform

Government contracting is a sequence that repeats endlessly: find an opportunity, decide whether to bid, write the proposal, review it for compliance, then deliver. Historically each step lived in a different tool - or in someone's head. Procurement Sciences mapped that whole loop and placed an AI agent at every stage.

Who uses it

The customer base spans the full range of the sector. On one end are small businesses trying to punch above their weight against firms with dedicated proposal shops. On the other are four of the top 10 defense and aerospace primes. In between sit IT, logistics and consulting firms, architecture-engineering-construction companies, higher-education institutions and nonprofits. The user base grew from roughly 300 organizations at the Series B to more than 3,000 after the HigherGov deal.

The problem it solves

The core pain is time and compliance. Federal proposals are dense, deadline-driven and unforgiving of formatting errors or missed requirements. Miss a single "shall" statement in a compliance matrix and a technically excellent bid can be thrown out. Procurement Sciences' AI Draft generates drafts, outlines and compliance matrices the company markets as roughly 90% faster than manual work, while AI Review checks submissions against custom evaluation criteria and flags gaps before a human evaluator ever sees them.

"Data is the new oil, but in government contracting, the real advantage is turning opportunity, award, agency, competitor, teaming, and pricing intelligence into action."
- Christian Ferreira, Founder & CEO
Products & Services

Inside Awarded AI

Discovery

Bid Search

Surfaces and tracks relevant opportunities in real time across federal, state, local and education markets using smart matching and natural-language search.

Strategy

Pipeline

Runs the business-development lifecycle from lead to award, with bid/no-bid analysis, competitor breakdowns and PWIN win-probability recommendations.

Writing

AI Draft

Generates proposal drafts, outlines and compliance matrices - marketed as roughly 90% faster than writing from scratch.

Quality

AI Review

Automated compliance and quality review against custom evaluation criteria, with score-enhancing edit suggestions before submission.

Assistant

AI Chat

A GovCon-specific assistant for question answering, knowledge search and text generation grounded in a company's own data.

Intelligence

HigherGov

Acquired in 2026: market intelligence spanning forecasts, recompetes, contract vehicles, awarded contracts, teaming partners and pricing benchmarks.

The Climb

A company that scaled fast

Organizations on the platform

Approximate, from public company milestones
Series A era
~300
Series B, Nov '25
300+
Post-HigherGov '26
3,000+

Headcount tracked the same curve, growing from 16 employees around the Series A to 70-plus by late 2025, with further expansion after folding in HigherGov's team.

Where It Fits

A crowded field, a different bet

Government contracting software is not empty territory. Deltek's GovWin IQ and Costpoint, Unanet, Rogue, AutogenAI, Capture2, TechnoMile, GovSpend and Govly all court the same buyers. Many are strong at one slice of the workflow - market intelligence here, ERP and compliance accounting there, proposal automation somewhere else.

Procurement Sciences' wager is that contractors would rather run the whole loop in one place than stitch seven tools together. Being built AI-first from 2022, rather than bolting generative features onto legacy software, is the argument it leans on. The HigherGov acquisition sharpened that position: it added the market-intelligence data layer the platform's AI agents could feed on, closing the gap between knowing about an opportunity and acting on it.

The company also frames AI as a collaborator, not a replacement. A human stays in the loop on every draft and review - a positioning that matters in a sector where accountability and auditability are not optional.

Model & Founder

The people and the plumbing

Business Model
B2B / B2G SaaS. Subscription access to the Awarded AI platform and HigherGov data, sold to contractors from small businesses to top-tier primes.
Founder & CEO
Christian Ferreira - Marine Corps sergeant, former full-stack engineer and solutions architect who researched and won government contracts before building the tool.
Backers
Catalyst Investors (lead), Battery Ventures, Tower Research Ventures, K-Street Capital, Blu Ventures, Bosch Ventures and Citi.
Recognition
Ferreira named to the APMP 40 Under 40 and AFCEA 40 Under 40; the platform is positioned as FedRAMP-oriented for public-sector use.
"Work that once took weeks now takes minutes."
- Christian Ferreira, Founder & CEO
Timeline

Four years, one loop

2022

Procurement Sciences is founded

Christian Ferreira launches the company in Washington, D.C. at the dawn of the generative AI era, aimed at government contracting's oldest bottlenecks.

2023

Awarded AI takes shape

AI Draft, AI Review, AI Chat and pipeline tools roll out to cover the full contracting lifecycle.

2024

Series A and early scaling

Early venture funding fuels customer and team growth.

2025

$30M Series B

Catalyst Investors leads an oversubscribed round; revenue is up 10x since the Series A.

2026

Acquires HigherGov

The deal pushes the combined platform past 3,000 contractors and $100B+ in AI-assisted awarded contracts.

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Five things worth knowing

FAQ

Common questions

What does Procurement Sciences do?
It builds Awarded AI, an AI-native platform that helps businesses find, win and deliver government contracts - spanning opportunity discovery, bid decisions, proposal drafting, compliance review and delivery.
Who founded it and when?
It was founded in 2022 by Christian Ferreira, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former government contractor who serves as Founder and CEO.
How much has it raised?
Roughly $40 million total, including a $30 million Series B in November 2025 led by Catalyst Investors, with Battery Ventures, Bosch Ventures, Citi and others participating.
Who are its customers?
More than 3,000 government contractors, including close to half of the industry Top 100 and four of the top 10 defense and aerospace contractors, plus IT, consulting, AEC, higher-education and nonprofit organizations.
Who does it compete with?
Competitors include Deltek GovWin IQ, Unanet, Rogue, AutogenAI, Capture2, TechnoMile, GovSpend and Govly - though it positions itself as an AI-native, full-lifecycle alternative.
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