There is no grace period on a SAM registration.
Twelve characters, on your SAM.gov entity record. Yours or a teaming partner's — the record is public either way.
Reads the same public SAM.gov record you can read yourself. Nothing is stored unless you ask for reminders.
The day it expires you are ineligible for award, and payments against the contracts you already hold stop. Reinstating it takes two to six weeks. RenewalShield watches the date so you are never the one who finds out late.
- 0
- days of grace period
- 2–6
- weeks to reinstate
- 90 → 1
- days out we warn you
No accountNo cardNever your SAM.gov login
The stakes
Preventing a lapse is a calendar entry. Undoing one is a month.
That asymmetry is the entire case for this product. Everything below is a matter of public record — check any of it before you trust me on the rest.
Ineligible the same day
There is no grace period. The moment a registration lapses you cannot receive a new award, and a contracting officer cannot process a payment against the contracts you already hold.
Two to six weeks to undo
Reactivation runs the same entity validation, IRS TIN match and CAGE review as a brand-new registration. Starting on the deadline buys you weeks of dead time, not days.
It fails quietly
Almost nobody misses a renewal because they stopped caring. They miss it because the one person tracking it got busy, changed roles, or left — and a spreadsheet does not escalate.
How it works
Three minutes now, or three weeks later.
Step one
Give it a UEI
That is the entire setup. No SAM.gov login, no document upload, no integration, no sales call. Twelve characters and you are monitored.
Step two
It watches, every day
Checked daily against the official SAM.gov Entity Management API. Add certifications, clearances, insurance and bonding and it watches those dates too.
Step three
You hear about it early, then louder
Alerts start 90 days out and escalate. If you are the sort of person who archives the first one, the last one lands in the week it actually matters.
The escalation ladder
Every alert names the date, the days left, and what to do next.
- 90 days outPaid only
- 60 days outFree + paid
- 30 days outFree + paid
- 14 days outPaid only
- 7 days outFree + paid
- 1 day outPaid only
- Expiration dayFree + paid
Your SAM.gov registration
Status, expiration date and CAGE code, re-read daily. If SAM flips you to inactive — or entity validation stalls halfway through a renewal — you hear about it from me rather than from a contracting officer.
And everything else with a date on it
8(a), HUBZone, WOSB and SDVOSB certifications. Facility clearances. ISO certificates, insurance COIs, bonding letters. Anything you currently track in a spreadsheet that nobody has opened since the last audit.
The straight answer
If an email about your SAM date felt like a scam — good. Keep that instinct.
There is a well-worn racket where strangers email federal contractors about their expiration and charge $300 to $3,000 for a renewal that is free at SAM.gov. My email has exactly the same shape: a stranger, your UEI, your date, a link that is not a .gov. Suspicion is the correct response. So here is everything you would need to check me out.
Derek Denmark
Founder, developer, and the only person here. Tampa, Florida.
Not a team, not a sales floor. I am telling you that first because it is the thing a scam operation would hide.
- /in/derekdenmark
- GitHub
- derekwden-droid
A human answers, usually the same day.
Never asks for your SAM.gov login
It runs entirely on public data. Holding your credentials would add risk for you and nothing for me.
Never charges you to renew
Renewing is free at SAM.gov. I sell a reminder, not a renewal. A fee to renew is the scam, every time.
Never claims to be the government
Not SAM.gov, not GSA, not any federal agency — in an email, on a call, or anywhere on this site.
Never invents a customer
No fabricated testimonials, no borrowed logos, no “trusted by 500+”. When it is true, it will say so.
Want to check me against the real thing? I wrote the guide on spotting these emails — including mine.
Read the scam guidePricing
Priced against the mistake, not against other software.
One missed renewal costs weeks of ineligibility on every contract you hold. Annual billing is two months free. Cancel any time, without a phone call.
Free beta
No card requiredMonitor one entity on the full 90/60/30/14/7/1-day schedule, free, for as long as the beta runs. Kick the tires before you pay a cent — and if it never sends you anything useful, you have lost nothing.
Founding price — $29/mo locked for life
Founding Member
$29/mo
or $290/yr — two months free
First 25 customers — this price is locked for life.
- Everything in Solo
- Price locked forever
- Founding member badge
- Direct line for feature requests
Solo
$79/mo
or $790/yr — two months free
One entity, fully guarded.
- SAM.gov registration monitoring
- Unlimited certification tracking
- Escalating alerts (90/60/30/14/7/1 days)
- Renewal runway dashboard
Growth
$199/mo
or $1,990/yr — two months free
For contractors with subsidiaries or joint ventures.
- Everything in Solo
- Up to 3 entities (UEIs)
- Priority support
Advisor
$399/mo
or $3,990/yr — two months free
For consultants managing renewals across a client book.
- Everything in Growth
- Up to 25 client entities
- Per-entity alert digests
- White-glove onboarding
Prefer to start with nothing at all? Look up your registration and take the free email reminders. No account needed.
Questions worth asking
The things a careful person asks first.
Renewing at SAM.gov is free. Why would I pay you?
Renewal is free, it always will be, and anyone charging you a fee to renew is running the scam this whole site warns you about. You are not paying for the renewal. You are paying so the date never arrives unannounced — which is the part that actually costs contractors money.
Can't I just set a calendar reminder?
You can, and it works right up until the person who set it changes roles. A calendar entry fires once, into one inbox, at a moment you guessed a year in advance. RenewalShield escalates on a schedule and re-reads the live SAM.gov record every day — so it also catches the case where your status changed and nobody told you.
Do you need my SAM.gov login?
No, and I never will. Everything runs on the public SAM.gov Entity Management API — the same record you can pull yourself. There is no reason for me to hold your credentials, so I do not ask for them.
What do you actually store?
Your email address, the UEIs you asked me to watch, and expiration dates. No credentials, no uploaded documents, no banking details. One-click unsubscribe on every message, and I have never sold or shared a customer list.
Are you affiliated with SAM.gov or the government?
No. Not with SAM.gov, not with GSA, not with any federal agency, and I will never contact you as though I were. RenewalShield is an independent monitoring tool that reads public data.
How many customers do you have?
RenewalShield launched in July 2026 and is currently in free beta, so the honest answer is: not many yet. I am not going to invent a number or paste in testimonials I did not receive. Email me and I will tell you exactly where it stands.
What happens if I cancel?
Alerts stop at the end of the period you already paid for. No exit fee, no cancellation call, no holding your data hostage — ask and I will delete your record.
Something not answered here? Email me directly — it reaches a person, not a ticket queue.
Look up your own registration. It takes ten seconds.
No account, no card, no credentials. Find out where you actually stand — then decide whether you ever want to hear from me again.
RenewalShield is not affiliated with SAM.gov or the U.S. Government.