About Hashike

Procurement information is spread across separate systems. A notice lives in one, the award that followed it in another, the identity of the supplier in a third, and the classification codes that connect them come with no explanation attached.

Answering an ordinary question — has work like this been bought here before, by whom, from whom, and for how much — means holding several systems open at once and reconciling records that were never built to be joined.

For a company outside the United States there is a further layer: the notices are in English, the registration path is opaque from abroad, and there is no cheap way to tell whether an opportunity is worth days of work before spending them.

A daily scan of SAM.gov filtered to place of performance in Japan; machine-translated requirements with the English original alongside; a summary of the points a notice raises (SAM, NCAGE, set-aside treatment, JST deadlines, cited FAR/DFARS clauses); comparable-award analysis from USAspending.gov; and save-and-track with notes.

US federal contract notices whose place of performance resolves to Japan, from SAM.gov, refreshed daily, with comparable award history drawn from USAspending.gov.

Japanese central-government award results published to the Procurement Portal, over a rolling window by award date. Local and prefectural procurement, and anything not published to the portal, are outside it.

Current SAM.gov data has 14 US federal contract notices for South Korea and 15 US federal contract notices for Guam on file. These counts include all notices on file, whether open or closed.

Other Pacific markets are added when a reliable public source exists for them, and are never presented as covered before that.

Hashike does not write proposals, act as a bid representative, register companies in government systems, or advise on whether to pursue a particular opportunity. That judgment, and the work behind it, stays with the company.

It does not predict outcomes. Nothing here estimates the likelihood of winning an award or scores how hard a competition would be. It reports what the public record contains, and what it does not.

It has no access to non-public procurement information. Everything presented is drawn from sources anyone can consult.

Japanese companies — small and mid-sized in particular — that can perform work on or around US installations in Japan but do not have an English-language federal-contracting team. Construction, facility services, ship repair and sustainment, logistics and transport, fuel and energy, IT and communications, professional services, equipment and supplies.

US and international firms researching the Pacific market, and analysts and researchers who want the underlying records rather than a summary of them.

Language and geography are independent here. A Japanese-speaking reader can research markets outside Japan, and an English-speaking one can research Japanese procurement, against the same data.

We want more Japanese companies to take the first step, so the on-ramp itself is free and needs no account.

Training on how US federal contracting works from a Japanese firm's perspective, an event directory, an organized directory of official resources, a bilingual glossary, and a FAR/DFARS rule-change feed. Every account then gets a 14-day full trial of the assessment tools (opportunity feed, translation, award analysis, save-and-track) — no card required.

Every account gets a 14-day free trial of a paid tier (no card required). See pricing details.

A hashike is a lighter — the flat-bottomed boat that goes out to the ship too big to come alongside the pier, takes on its cargo, and brings it ashore. Any ship at anchor, of any flag or service, gets its cargo ashore this way.

US federal contracting is that deep-draft ship. Hashike is the boat that meets it and brings the cargo to your shore.