Triage Federal Register FAR/DFARS & SBA Alerts (n8n + Apify)

Stay ahead of Federal Register deadlines—automatically

The Triage Federal Register FAR/DFARS & SBA Alerts (n8n + Apify) workflow runs every weekday morning to monitor new Federal Register FAR/DFARS and SBA-related documents, deduplicate them, prioritize items by urgency, and send deadline alerts and a daily digest to Slack or Gmail.

What this workflow does

• Runs on schedule: Executes at 07:00 every weekday.
• Validates your configuration first: Checks watch packs/filters, limits, regex patterns, and Slack/email routing—then stops with an error before any Apify charge if settings are invalid.
• Monitors using Apify: Launches the Apify Actor cce_partners/federal-register-govcon-watch, polls until it finishes (or reaches the polling limit), and retrieves the run dataset of new documents.
• Deduplicates and remembers state: Deduplicates by document number and persists “seen” state and open comment deadlines in n8n static data.
• Re-triggers when deadlines approach: Creates reminders when previously seen items enter your configured urgent window.
• Classifies and prioritizes: Categorizes documents (final rule, proposed rule, RFI-like notice, or other) and assigns priority based on comment deadlines, effective dates, contract clause parts, and priority agencies.
• Alerts + digest delivery: Sends urgent alerts for items due within the urgent window, and compiles the remaining items into a single daily digest.
• Failure notifications: Sends crash/failure alerts to your configured destination if Apify calls or the workflow execution fails.

Use cases

• Procurement and contracting teams tracking FAR/DFARS rule changes and comment periods.
• Compliance and government affairs teams needing deadline alerts without manual monitoring.
• SaaS operators and automation engineers configuring a reliable n8n + Apify monitoring pipeline with Slack/Gmail notifications.

Technical details

• Scheduling: Weekday run at 07:00.
• Apify Actor: cce_partners/federal-register-govcon-watch (polls until completion; fetches new documents from run dataset).
• n8n nodes/logic: if, set, code, no op, wait, gmail (for email delivery), plus Slack routing based on configuration.
• Required setup: Add an Apify API token as an HTTP Header.