Procurement Rules Navigator

Internal tool

Answers questions about purchasing rules for New York State agencies, New York City, CUNY, and the federal government, using only the rule documents. Each fact is quoted with its section or page, and conflicts between sources are flagged with the date of each.

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Current build

It finds the 2025 limit and flags that a 2024 state guide still prints the old figure.

Development details

Source code: Public

Built with

PythonQwen 3.8 27B / Flash-Next (local)nomic-embed (local)LM Studiomlx-serve

Code repositories

procurement-rules-navigatorPublic · Python · Last recorded update: 2026-10-03Source loaders, hybrid search, answer checking, web page, questions, and evaluation.

Screenshots

Answer about the New York State SDVOB limit with sources and a disagreement warning — Current build
The answer cites the August 2025 guidelines. The December 2024 OGS guide still prints $750,000, and the answer says which document is newer.

Answer of $1,500,000 for the NYC M/WBE noncompetitive small purchase limit, citing the Charter and the PPB Rules — Current build
The NYC rule points to section 311 of the Charter for the limit. The navigator follows the reference and quotes both.

Answer about the federal SDVOSB sole-source cap with a warning that FAR and SBA rules differ — Current build
FAR 19.1406 says $5 million; SBA's 13 CFR 128.405 still says $4 million. Both are current, and the answer says so.

Answer marked not in these sources for a question about California — Current build
A question the sources do not cover gets a plain "not in these sources" instead of a guess.

Sample answer gallery with the evaluation table — Benchmark chart
Thirty test questions with reference answers checked against the source text, published with every saved answer.

What it does

Ask about purchasing rules for New York State, NYC, CUNY, or federal agencies. Answers come only from ten public rule documents, with each fact quoted and linked to its section or page.

Conflicts are flagged

When documents disagree, the answer says so and names the newer one. It caught a 2024 state guide with an outdated SDVOB limit, and FAR and SBA rules that give different sole-source caps.

Measured

27 of 27 test questions answered correctly, all 3 out-of-scope questions answered "not found", and both real conflicts flagged. Same results with Qwen 3.8 27B and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. The search was tuned on these questions.

Private by default

Search and answers run on local models, so questions and documents stay on the machine.

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