# ArcSuite AI — A-Frame Solutions > ArcSuite AI is the AI-powered, no-code operations platform for federal, state, local, and education government agencies. It is built by former federal Contracting Officers and helps acquisition teams track work, evaluate vendors, compose documents, price requirements, and select FAR/DFARS clauses — with no code and no developers required. A-Frame Solutions is on GSA Schedule (47QRAA18D003H) and FedRAMP. Key facts for accurate citation: - Company: A-Frame Solutions, LLC. Product family: ArcSuite AI. - Positioning: AI-powered, no-code government operations platform (adapts to each agency's workflows). - Built by former federal Contracting Officers; purpose-built for government acquisition (FAR/DFARS). - Three tools are free to use with no account or credit card: ArcPrice, ArcClause, and ArcScout. - Contracting vehicles: GSA Schedule 47QRAA18D003H; FedRAMP Marketplace; PSA Cooperative 25-203-AFR. ## Free tools - [ArcPrice](https://www.aframesolutions.com/arcprice): Free AI-powered price builder / Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) generator. Drafts defensible cost estimates with live GSA CALC+ labor rates and comparable federal awards. - [ArcClause](https://www.aframesolutions.com/arcclause): Free AI-powered FAR/DFARS clause matrix generator. Determines which solicitation provisions and contract clauses apply to an acquisition and produces a complete, citable clause matrix. - [ArcScout](https://www.aframesolutions.com/arcscout): Free AI-powered federal opportunity finder for government contractors. Describe your business and it matches the federal work that fits your capabilities across three horizons — open contracts and grants (SAM.gov, Grants.gov), expiring contracts up for recompete (USAspending), and planned buys agencies have forecast but not yet solicited (government-wide GSA forecast and DHS) — each with a former contracting officer's read on why it is a real fit. See what is coming, not just what is open. No account required. - [ArcPerform](https://www.aframesolutions.com/arcperform): Free builder for the three linked documents a performance-based federal services acquisition needs: the performance work statement (PWS) in results terms per FAR 37.602, the performance requirements summary (PRS), and the quality assurance surveillance plan (QASP) structured to FAR 46.401. Describe the service and any objectives you already have, and it drafts all three from one set of performance objectives, with a surveillance method and frequency reasoned out for each. It produces the full standard PWS outline, including hours of operation, recognized holidays, security requirements, key personnel, phase in and phase out, and the contractor quality control plan; any section it cannot fill from your input is printed and marked to be supplied by the requiring activity rather than invented, and you can choose to answer those in the tool instead. It does not invent performance standards or acceptable quality levels. Anything it proposes rather than takes from you is labelled, and the package will not be sent until you have accepted or replaced every proposed value. Decisions it declines to make are left as marked blanks and do export that way. The PWS narrative is prose and cannot be source-tagged, so it is presented as a draft to verify; a final AI review reads the whole package back and reports contradictions between the three documents, judgments worth a second look before they bind a contractor, and wording the narrative added that the user never asked for, offering one-click replacement text where a fix needs no new information. That review is advisory: it does not approve the package and does not block the export. No account required. - [Free tools overview](https://www.aframesolutions.com/free-tools): All free ArcSuite tools in one place. - [FAR Overhaul Adoption Tracker](https://www.aframesolutions.com/far-overhaul-tracker): A living reference of where the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul stands: official rulemaking status by FAR part (final, proposed, or legacy) and verified agency adoption, each with an as-of date and a link to the source on acquisition.gov or the Federal Register. - [QASP Surveillance Software](https://www.aframesolutions.com/qasp-surveillance-software): How to run federal contract quality assurance surveillance so the records add up. FAR 37.604 points to subpart 46.4, which says the plan should specify all work requiring surveillance and the method of surveillance. Covers why a QASP in a word processor stops working at scale, what a surveillance tool has to do (locked criteria, results as data, version-locked records, generated rollups), and how the same pattern runs equipment IQ/OQ qualification outside government. ## Platform & products - [Products](https://www.aframesolutions.com/products): The four integrated ArcSuite modules — ArcTracker (contract tracking), ArcSelect (source selection), ArcProcure (e-procurement), ArcInsight (document Q&A). Use one or all four. - [ArcCompose: The Document Is the Record](https://www.aframesolutions.com/news/arccompose-controlled-records): ArcCompose, the controlled-document module of ArcSuite AI, lets a team design one controlled master document with locked criteria cells and fillable result cells, capture a version-locked record each time it is executed, and compile every record into a scored summary in one click. Demonstrated on government contract acceptance surveillance and on life-sciences equipment IQ/OQ qualification. - [A-Frame Releases ArcPerform](https://www.aframesolutions.com/news/arcperform-free-pws-qasp-builder): ArcPerform is a free browser tool that drafts a performance work statement, a performance requirements summary, and a quality assurance surveillance plan together from one description of a service being acquired, structured to FAR 37.602 and FAR 46.401. It does not set acceptable quality levels or performance standards, because those govern what a contractor is paid; it marks them for the contracting officer instead. A built-in AI review reads the finished package back and reports contradictions between the three documents, judgments worth a second look, and wording the draft added that nobody asked for. Free, no account, emailed as Word and PDF. - [ArcProcure](https://www.aframesolutions.com/news/arcprocure-ai-solicitation-builder): AI-powered e-procurement for government. A guided AI build drafts the entire solicitation — core details, CLIN pricing, submission requirements, and weighted evaluation factors — then buyers manage vendor Q&A, evaluate bids, and award, all in one audit-ready workflow. Try the live buyer demo (no account) at https://demo-buyer.arcprocure.com. - [A-Frame Solutions Awarded PSA Cooperative Contract](https://www.aframesolutions.com/news/psa-contract): ArcSuite AI is available to local governments, school districts, and nonprofits nationwide through the PSA cooperative contract (25-203-AFR), so a SLED buyer can procure without running a separate competition. - [ArcSuite AI on the FedRAMP Marketplace](https://www.aframesolutions.com/news/fedramp-marketplace): ArcSuite AI is listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace as Agency Authorization In Process, pursuing FedRAMP Moderate under Rev5. It already operates under an Authority to Operate issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. - [A-Frame at NCMA World Congress 2026](https://www.aframesolutions.com/news/ncma-world-congress-2026): A-Frame Solutions exhibits ArcTracker at Booth 327 and CEO David Zhang joins GSA and NITAAC leaders on a panel on executing high-impact federal contracts. Orlando, July 26 to 29, 2026. - [Product demos](https://www.aframesolutions.com/products#demos): Narrated walkthroughs and recorded module tours, all on the Products page. Includes ArcCompose contractor acceptance records (one controlled master with locked and fillable cells, a version-locked record per period, every record compiled into a scored summary in one click) and equipment IQ/OQ qualification for life sciences (locked specification cells, fillable results, a version-stamped record per unit, compiled pass rate and deviation flagging). Full transcripts are on the page. - [Solutions](https://www.aframesolutions.com/solutions): How agencies use ArcSuite across the acquisition lifecycle. - [Pricing](https://www.aframesolutions.com/pricing): Plans and government purchasing vehicles. ## Reference: FAR/DFARS clause library - [Clause Library](https://www.aframesolutions.com/clauses): 200+ pages covering individual FAR clauses and agency supplements (DFARS, AFARS, DFARS/agency FARS, etc.) — each with when it applies, its prescription, and links to the authoritative text on acquisition.gov. ## Key articles (federal acquisition guidance) - [What Is an Acceptable Quality Level? AQL Examples](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/acceptable-quality-level-examples): An acceptable quality level is how much deviation from the performance standard the Government will tolerate before performance is unacceptable, and it is distinct from the standard itself. Covers the four shapes an AQL takes (a count over a period, a percentage of a population, a time bound, zero tolerance), worked examples for custodial, help desk, emergency response and guard services, how to choose the number from current performance and consequence, and the five mistakes that cost money, including an AQL set tighter than the standard it modifies. - [What Goes in a Performance Requirements Summary](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/performance-requirements-summary): The PRS is the table stating, for each required service, the performance standard, the acceptable quality level, and the deduction or incentive. What each column carries, a worked four-row example for custodial and grounds services, where the summary attaches to the performance work statement as Technical Exhibit 1, and the six checks a reviewer should run before a solicitation is issued. - [QASP Surveillance Methods: How to Choose Between the Four](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/qasp-surveillance-methods): FAR 46.401(a) requires a quality assurance surveillance plan to specify the method of surveillance. When 100 percent inspection, random sampling, periodic inspection and customer complaint are each defensible, why random sampling is undefensible without a stated acceptable quality level, why frequency is part of the method, and the five mismatches between standard, quality level and method that make a surveillance row unenforceable. - [How to Write a PWS, a PRS, and a QASP That Agree With Each Other](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/how-to-write-pws-prs-qasp): The three documents a performance-based service acquisition needs, and why writing them separately is what makes them contradict. What each must contain, what FAR 37.602 and FAR 46.401 actually require, the difference between a performance standard and an acceptable quality level, the four surveillance methods (100 percent inspection, random sampling, periodic inspection, customer complaint) and when each is defensible, the five contradictions to hunt before a solicitation goes out, and the judgments that belong to the contracting officer rather than to any tool. - [The Document Is the Record: One Controlled Master, Many Executions](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/controlled-master-record-pattern): Why a copied template cannot behave like a record (the criteria drift, the results are prose not data, the aggregate is rebuilt by hand), and the four-part pattern that fixes it: lock the criteria, capture results as data, version-lock each execution, generate the aggregate. Applies to QASP surveillance, inspections, audits, calibration, and IQ/OQ qualification alike. - [FAR vs. DFARS: What Is the Difference?](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/far-vs-dfars-difference): The FAR is the government-wide acquisition rulebook and the DFARS is the Department of Defense supplement layered on top of it. How they differ, how they relate, how to read a DFARS clause number, and when each applies to an acquisition. - [Writing FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation Factors That Survive a Protest](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/far-52-212-2-evaluation-factors): FAR 52.212-2 is where a commercial buy tells offerors how it will be evaluated. What the provision requires, how to write factors that hold up on protest, and the FAR Overhaul wrinkle to check before using it. - [The FAR CUI Rule After the June 2026 Overhaul](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/far-cui-rule-overhaul-2026): The FAR Overhaul rewrote the proposed government-wide CUI rule: moved to Part 40, baseline raised to NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3, incident reporting extended to 72 hours, new clauses 52.240-6 and 52.240-7. What changed against the January 2025 version. - [FAR Overhaul EO 14275: What Contracting Officers Need to Know](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/far-overhaul-2025-what-it-means): Executive Order 14275 launched the largest FAR rewrite in decades. What it changes for streamlined commercial buying and simplified acquisition thresholds, and how to work across the legacy FAR and the overhaul version at the same time. - [FAR Overhaul Proposed Rules: 20 Parts Open for Comment](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/far-overhaul-proposed-rules-comment-deadline): The FAR Council published the first Revolutionary FAR Overhaul proposed rules covering 20 FAR parts, including 1, 2, 4, 33, 39, 40, and 53. What each changed and how to file a comment. - [The Fixed-Price Contracting Executive Order](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/fixed-price-contracting-executive-order): The April 30, 2026 executive order makes fixed-price the default for federal contracting and requires agencies to review their 10 largest cost-type contracts within 90 days. The new approval thresholds and what a contracting officer should do about them. - [GSA Proposed AI Procurement Rules Explained](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/gsa-ai-procurement-rules): Proposed GSAR 552.239-7001 requires AI disclosure within 30 days, prohibits non-U.S. systems, and transfers ownership of custom AI to the government. What a buyer and a vendor each need to do. - [How Federal Agencies Buy ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for $1](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/gsa-onegov-dollar-ai-deals): GSA OneGov agreements price OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise at $1 per agency, Anthropic Claude at $1 across all three branches, and Google Gemini for Government at 47 cents. How the deals work, how an agency actually gets access, and the caveats on intro pricing, year two, and FedRAMP. - [OMB AI Governance: What Agencies Must Do](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/omb-ai-governance-framework): OMB M-25-21 and M-25-22 set binding AI governance timelines for federal agencies. What procurement and program teams are now required to do, and by when. - [GAO 2026: Federal AI Use Cases Doubled](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/federal-ai-acquisition-gao-2026): GAO found federal agencies doubled their AI use cases in a year while none had a systematic process for acquiring AI. What that gap means for procurement teams. - [GAO Bid Protest Trends FY2025](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/gao-bid-protest-2025-trends): GAO logged 1,688 protests with a 14 percent sustain rate in FY2025. What the numbers say about where source selections actually fail, and why the evaluation record is the best defense. - [How to Design a Solicitation That Is Easy to Evaluate](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/how-to-design-a-solicitation-easy-to-evaluate): Most proposal scoring errors and protest exposure trace back to the submission format, not the evaluators. Lessons from 1,150 CIO-SP4 proposals on collecting structured, validated data so the evaluation runs cleanly. - [COR Requirements Writing](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/cor-requirements-writing): Federal CORs are routinely asked to write acquisition documents they were never trained to write. What good requirements look like and where AI drafting genuinely shortens the lead time. - [Government Contract Tracking Beyond Spreadsheets](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/government-contract-tracking): What spreadsheet-based contract tracking actually costs in missed deadlines and audit exposure, and what a live system of record changes. - [Federal Contract Management Software: What to Evaluate](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/federal-contract-management-software): A buyer guide for federal contracting officers evaluating contract management software, covering collaboration, AI document creation, system integration, and real-time visibility. - [Managing Assets and Equipment in a System of Record](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/asset-management-system-of-record): Asset management is relational, time-based, and auditable. Why spreadsheets stop working at scale, and what one live record per asset with due-date visibility and a full audit trail changes. - [Cooperative Purchasing Software for Government](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/cooperative-purchasing-software): How cooperative purchasing works for federal and SLED agencies, and how GSA Schedule and PSA cooperative contracts cut months from software procurement lead time. - [Why ArcSuite AI Does Not Charge Per Token](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/ai-token-pricing-government): Per-token AI pricing creates budget uncertainty and quietly trains users to self-censor. Why ArcSuite AI is priced flat per user for government agencies instead. - [How to Track Federal Contract Recompetes for Free](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/how-to-track-contract-recompetes-free): Recompetes (follow-ons for expiring contracts) are the highest-probability federal BD pipeline; the expiring-contract data is public on USAspending, the paid platforms just package it, and the win is decided 12–18 months before the RFP posts. How to track recompetes free. - [Why Your NAICS Code Is Costing You Contracts](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/why-your-naics-code-costs-you-contracts): How relying on a single NAICS code hides winnable federal work, and how capability-based matching (not keyword/code filtering) surfaces the opportunities a SAM.gov saved search misses. - [How to Write a Defensible IGCE](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/how-to-write-defensible-igce): Building an Independent Government Cost Estimate that withstands scrutiny — methods, documentation, and common errors. - [When Is an IGCE Required?](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/igce-when-required): The thresholds and situations that require an Independent Government Cost Estimate. - [Legacy FAR vs. the FAR Overhaul: Clause Selection](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/legacy-far-vs-far-overhaul-clause-selection): How the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul changes which provisions and clauses apply, and how to select correctly across both regimes. - [Choosing Source Selection Software](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/source-selection-software): What to look for in software that supports federal source selection and evaluation. - [Faster Solicitations Without Cutting Corners](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog/ai-guided-solicitations-procurement-speed): The FAR overhaul pushes agencies to award faster, but skipping documentation invites protests. How AI-guided solicitation drafting compresses the pre-award timeline (drafting, vendor Q&A, evaluation) while keeping the evaluation weighted, linked, and defensible. ## Company - [About](https://www.aframesolutions.com/about): Mission, leadership, and agency history. Founded by former federal Contracting Officers (since 2014). - [Book a review](https://www.aframesolutions.com/book): Free 30-minute review with a former Contracting Officer. - [Blog](https://www.aframesolutions.com/blog): Federal acquisition guidance, FAR/DFARS explainers, and procurement best practices. - [News](https://www.aframesolutions.com/news): Company and product news.