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• SAM.gov API rate limits: 10/day vs 1,000/day, and what actually requires entity registration
  The SAM.gov opportunities API gives a personal key 10 requests/day. The 1,000/day tier requires UEI entity registration that takes 2-3 weeks. Here is the real decision tree.
• How to get SAM.gov contract opportunities as webhooks
  Step-by-step: turn new and changed SAM.gov federal contract opportunities into signed webhook POSTs filtered by NAICS, set-aside, and keyword.
• The missing RSS feed for SAM.gov opportunities
  SAM.gov publishes no RSS. Here is how to get a per-search RSS feed of new and changed federal contract opportunities, plus free demo feeds by NAICS code.
• Parsing the SAM.gov daily bulk extract: format, quirks, gotchas
  A worked guide to the SAM.gov Contract Opportunities daily CSV extract: streaming a large file, quoted-field traps, column mapping, and snapshot diffing.
• A typical small contractor needs 6-15 SAM.gov searches a day. The free cap is 10.
  The arithmetic of SAM.gov monitoring: 3-5 NAICS codes times 2-3 geographies exceeds the personal API key's 10 requests/day before you read a single description.
• Webhook reliability for government data feeds: retries, signatures, dead-endpoint detection
  How SamHooks keeps a push feed honest: HMAC signatures, 5-attempt retries with dead-letter queues, per-delivery logs, auto-disable after 20 failures, and self-serve recovery.