Methodology
Every procurement starts with information. Precapture makes it the knowledge that wins.
The fact is quoted. The reading is labeled.
A plan leader can see what the state published, and can see what Precapture adds. When a check is incomplete, the page says so. A plan-specific reading is for subscribers.
Verification ladder
Single verification
One directly accessible source supports the claim. Single-verified records remain research inputs and are not eligible for the public intelligence feed.
Double verification
Two event-specific sources support the material claim, with an authoritative or primary source preferred. Public facts must meet at least this level.
Triple verification
Three event-specific sources independently support a material or disputed claim. Contradictions remain visible rather than being collapsed into certainty.
Market heat
Heat summarizes verified procurement, award, transition, deadline, exit, and portfolio activity. It is not a prediction of the winning bidder or award outcome.
Freshness
The monitoring line is the newest successful source check and the states that check verified. When that check is older than the source's schedule allows, the line says monitoring delayed and does not show the stale date. The content date is the newest published fact. The coverage table lists each state, whether a cited managed-care record is on file, and the last checked date. Source receipts list each required source as changed, unchanged, blocked, failed, or not checked. A blank time was not checked.
What the public page shows
Precapture checks state procurement portals, Medicaid agencies, CMS, and MACPAC on a set schedule, twice a day for news and twice a week for procurement data, and each public fact cites its source. Compiling turns that record into state pages, procurement calendars, plan rosters, and a rebid watch. The labeled Precapture analysis line on a public page is a reading of that public record. What a signal means for this plan, what is likely next, and what to do, is for subscribers.
Citation excerpts
In the rebid watch, a number in a fact has to appear in the source passage that supports it. The Indiana sample for the week ending October 23, 2026 shows that rule on the home page, next to the procurement calendar taken from the same brief.
Corrections
A correction is checked against the public record it cites. This page does not take correction requests yet.