This guide walks you through how to build and manage a pipeline for federal government contract opportunities from the earliest whisper of agency need all the way through award, debrief, and lessons learned. Covers the six pipeline stages mapped to federal procurement signals, regulatory thresholds including the Micro-Purchase Threshold, Simplified Acquisition Threshold, and Subcontracting Plan Threshold, IDIQ and task-order pipeline management under FAR 16.505, weighted pipeline value calculations using stage probabilities and pWin, small business set-aside strategy and teaming logic under FAR Part 19, pipeline governance through debriefs under FAR 15.506 and GAO protest timelines, and competitive intelligence from publicly posted Justifications and Approvals and USAspending.gov spending data.