Guides, reports and free tools for winning public work.
Guides to finding and winning bids, reports built from public budgets and meeting minutes, side-by-side comparisons, and free tools that start from your website.
Reports
What's funded, what's stalled and what's coming, from budgets, meeting minutes and federal records. Every figure has a source and a date.
All 6 reports
Build America, Buy America: what changes for a manufacturer when the project is federally funded
Every SRF loan and every formula highway dollar carries a domestic-content rule. Here is what it requires, product by product, how waivers work, and where the public record tells you who could not comply.
Basis of design: how manufacturers get written into specs, and out of them
When a product is written into the spec, the sale is won during design. An addendum can take it away again. How manufacturers get specified, and how they lose it.
State revolving funds: the funding signal most pursuit teams ignore
Clean Water and Drinking Water SRF intended use plans list, by name, the projects a state expects to finance. They come out every year, and few sales teams read them.Guides
How to find public bids, win your first contract, read a bid package and hear about work early. Written for the people who do the bidding.
All 13 guides
Can a small business get government contracts?
Yes, and most of the work is closer than you think. How much goes to small businesses, which agencies to start with, what to register for and how to win the first one.
How to bid on city and county contracts
Where cities and counties post their bids, how to get on their vendor lists, the difference between a quote and a sealed bid, and what happens at the bid opening.
What is a bid bond? What it costs and how to get one
A bid bond promises you will sign the contract at the price you bid. How much agencies ask for, what it costs, how to get your first one and what to do if a surety says no.Comparisons
Capveon next to the tools you may already pay for: what you miss with each one, what Capveon does instead, and facts you can check for yourself.
All 10 comparisons
Best Dodge and ConstructConnect alternatives for public work (2026)
Five Dodge and ConstructConnect alternatives for contractors and manufacturers who bid public work, with prices, contracts and what each one reads for you, checked November 2026.
Best AI tools for government contracts (2026)
Six AI tools for finding, qualifying and winning government contracts, compared on price, coverage and what the AI does, checked November 2026.
Capveon and Dodge
Dodge Construction Network sells commercial construction project data, plan room access and market forecasts, priced by quote.Free tools
The first two start from your website and answer on screen in about a minute. The other two start from a bid or a territory, a person on our team does the reading, and the answer comes by email. All free, with no card.
Opportunity finder
Enter your website. In about a minute you see the open bids, early signals and grants that fit what you do, from federal, state and local agencies.
First accounts
For companies selling software or services to government: the agencies most likely to buy what you build, and the meeting, plan or budget that points to each.
One bid, fully read
Send one public bid. We email it back read for your products: quantities, named or equal, competitors, BABA, bond, insurance, engineer and value, each with its page.Your territory, next 12 months
Name your states or provinces and what you sell. We email the capital plan items, board decisions and bond votes there that match, with sources.
See every contract that fits your business.
Try it free for 7 days with your whole team, or enter your website and see the contracts that fit in about a minute.