Search Logic

Statement

Description

Example

Example Restricts To

Restrict

Restrict statements are commonly used to narrow the search parameters. You can restrict a profile to certain databases, FSGs, or geographic locations (states).

Restrict Not

Restrict Not statements will exclude any solicitation containing a specified phrase or word, FSG category, agency name, etc., even if that solicitation also contains one or more of the key-terms listed in the profile's Select statements.

restrict not retardant

Those bids that don't contain the word "retardant"

Ignore

Ignore statements will exclude any solicitations containing a specified phrase or word, FSG category, agency name, etc., but only if the solicitation does not reference any other key-terms in the profile's Select statements. For example, if you want to search for the term "uniform," but do not want "Uniformed Fire Fighters Association" to be the only cause for a solicitation to match, you can ignore this phrase when found without any accompanying matching terms.

ignore uniformed<> fire<>fighters<> association

Those bids that either (1) don't contain the phrase "uniformed fire fighters association" at all or (2) those bids that, if the ignored phrase is present, have at least one or more of the Select statement key-terms present as well

Select

Select statements indicate the keywords, phrases, and codes that you are searching for. Each select statement is a search all by itself, independent of other select statements in the profile. However, select statements are governed by the parameters established in the restrict statements.

select hydrant

Any bid containing the word "hydrant," assuming the bid meets the parameters set forth by the restrict statement(s)

Wildcard

Description

Example

Example Matches On

*

The asterisk wildcard character substitutes for any additional number and combination of characters in your keyword strings, letting you search for wide variations of a particular word without searching for each variation separately

select extinguish*

extinguish
extinguished
extinguishers
extinguishing

?

The question mark wildcard character substitutes for one additional character

select hose?

hose
hoses

Operator

Description

Example

Example Matches On

and

"and" between two search terms requires bid opportunities to contain both terms

select fire and hydrant

Any bid containing the word "fire" and the word "hydrant"

or

"or" between two search terms requires bid opportunities to include at least one of the terms

select hydrant or extinguisher

Any bid containing one or both of these words

not

"not" can be combined with the "and" operator to exclude bid opportunities that contain a particular word

select hydrant and not fire

Any bid containing the word "hydrant" that does not also contain the word "fire"

!

An exclamation mark in front of a keyword makes it case sensitive

select !HyDro

Any bid containing "HyDro," but not "Hydro" or "hydro"

< >

The greater than and less than signs indicate the required proximity of two keywords