Example Prompts

Once you’ve connected your assistant, you can ask questions in plain English. Here are prompts that map to what the connector can do.

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Finding contracts

• “Search CivicMarketplace for janitorial services contracts.”
• “Find cooperative contracts for water treatment chemicals.”
• “What IT consulting contracts are available through Sourcewell?”
• “Show me contracts related to fleet vehicles and summarize each in one line.”
• “If CivicMarketplace has no fleet-management contract, search the approved external procurement sources.”
• “Search outside CivicMarketplace for a cooperative agreement covering public-safety radios.”
• “Open the NPPGov agreement from those external results, summarize its parties, term, and scope, and cite the physical PDF page for each claim.”

When a keyword search finds no CivicMarketplace contract, the connector can continue across 101 approved public procurement sources. It can read supported PDF, HTML, and plain-text documents linked by those results. External results and extracted text are labeled as public evidence and are not verified CivicMarketplace records.

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Contract detail and documents

• “Give me the full details of the office supplies contract — value, term, and status.”
• “Who are the awarded suppliers on contract 63?”
• “Open the pricing sheet on that contract and tell me the unit prices for copy paper.”
• “Summarize the master service agreement attached to this contract.”
• “Does this contract’s RFP mention cybersecurity requirements?”

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Discovering suppliers

• “Find cybersecurity suppliers based in or serving Texas.” (free-text + state filter)
• “Which suppliers are DBE-certified?” (SBE certification filter)
• “Show me MBE and WOSB suppliers in California.” (multiple certifications + state)
• “List suppliers with an ISO 37001 certification.” (technical certification filter)
• “What certifications can I filter suppliers by?” (lists the available certifications)
• “Look up Acme Tech Solutions and show me their certifications and contact info.”
• “List suppliers offering IT services.” (filter by service category)

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Counts and summaries

• “How many active contracts does my agency have access to?”
• “How many suppliers offer IT services?”
• “Compare the suppliers on these two contracts.”

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Agency workflows

• “Using CivicMarketplace, what quote request actions can I take?”
• “Create a quick quote request for computer software suppliers with a deadline of 2026-07-31.”
• “Show my waiting quick quote requests and summarize supplier response counts.”
• “Archive quick quote request 42.”
• “How many unread CivicMarketplace inbox conversations do I have?”
• “Read the latest messages in inbox conversation 91 and draft a short reply.”

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Supplier workflows

• “Using CivicMarketplace, what can I do as this supplier account?”
• “Show me quick quote and cooperative quote requests sent to my supplier account.”
• “Pull the details for supplier coop quote request 21.”
• “Submit a response to quick quote request 56 with an estimate of $12,500.”
• “Decline coop quote request 21 because we cannot meet the deadline.”
• “Show my supplier inbox conversations with unread messages.”
• “Reply to conversation 91 and thank the agency for the clarification.”
• “Update my supplier availability to available.”
• “Show my supplier dashboard keywords, certifications, and NIGP capacity categories.”
• “Find available supplier keywords matching cybersecurity, then add the best matches to my profile.”
• “Add NIGP capacity codes for software and IT services to my supplier profile.”
• “Remove Budget Systems from my supplier dashboard keywords.”
• “List my supplier references and reference requests.”
• “Send a reference request to [email protected].”
• “Show solicitations available to my supplier account and register intent to bid on solicitation 12.”
• “Who is on my supplier team?”

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Admin workflows

• “Search admin suppliers for Acme and show the matching record IDs.”
• “Create a supplier profile for this company metadata.”
• “Add NIGP codes 208 and 209 to supplier 123.”
• “Update contract 63 to published.”
• “Replace the city services on contract 63 with these IDs.”

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Refining with reference data

• “What service categories are available in CivicMarketplace?”
• “List the cooperatives I can filter by.”
• “Show me lead entities so I can narrow my search.”

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