Check a supplier from SAM.gov
A small Chrome extension for the moment you're looking at a supplier on SAM.gov or see its UEI in an email or a PO: one click opens your Watch account with the supplier ready to check or watch. It holds no login and no key, and it sends nothing anywhere but the link it opens.
What it does
- On a SAM.gov entity page
- Click the toolbar icon: the UEI is taken from the page's address, ready to check or watch.
- Anywhere else
- Select a UEI, CAGE code or company name, right-click, and choose "Check in Programmable Watch" or "Watch in Programmable Watch". Or type one into the popup.
- On a link to an entity
- Right-click a SAM.gov entity link, in SAM.gov's search results or an email, and choose Check or Watch. The UEI comes from the link's address.
- From the keyboard
- Alt+Shift+W opens the popup. You can change it at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
- Check
- Opens the supplier if it's on your lists, or says it isn't and offers to watch it.
- Watch
- Reads the new watch back to you with any questions. Nothing is saved until you confirm.
What it asks Chrome for
- activeTab
- While the popup is open, it can see the address of the tab you clicked it on, to find a SAM.gov entity's UEI. Nothing else, and no other tab.
- contextMenus
- Adds Check and Watch to the right-click menu for selected text, SAM.gov entity links and SAM.gov entity pages, and links to Watch to the toolbar icon's menu.
- Not asked for
- Access to any website, content scripts, storage, or your browsing history. It never reads the content of a page.
Privacy
The Programmable Watch extension collects nothing and stores nothing. When you choose Check or Watch, it puts the text you selected (or the UEI from a SAM.gov entity page's address) into a link to programmable.watch and opens that link in a new tab. That is the only data that leaves your browser, and it goes only to Programmable Watch, where it fills the chat box on your own account and is handled under our privacy policy. The extension has no access to the content of the pages you visit, holds no login or key, makes no network requests of its own, and runs no remote code.
For IT teams
If your organization allows only approved extensions, we'll publish the extension ID here when it's on the Chrome Web Store, so you can add it to your allow-list. Until then, the same hand-off works as a plain link: programmable.watch/dashboard?sentence=Watch UEI … opens Watch with the sentence filled in.