Bid intelligence that reads the whole bid.
Every public bid in your market, read for scope, products and fit, with the page behind each answer.
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A bid notice says almost nothing.
A title, a deadline and a link to four hundred pages. Whether the job is yours is in the specs, the drawings and the addenda.
Someone on your team reads them, and there are always more bids than readers.
One bid, read for you.
What it asks for, whether it fits, and the page that says so.
Wastewater treatment plant improvements
Regional utility, bids due in three weeks.
- Scope
- Process upgrades and a new electrical building, section 01 11 00
- Named
- Specified equipment names two manufacturers, or-equal allowed, section 43 11 00
- Addenda
- Addendum 2 moved the bid date and added a site visit
- Requirements
- Build America, Buy America applies, page 12
- Fit
- Inside the size you usually take on, and in your area
Worth a bid. Ask for prior approval on the equipment this week.
Everything out to bid.
Bids and lettings from city, county, utility, state and federal portals in one place, checked every day.
- Local, state and federal portals
- Bids, addenda and results
- New bids as they post
The boundaries of every bid.
Scope and where it stops, quantities, named products and equals, substitution deadlines and the requirements that rule you in or out.
- Scope and quantities
- Named products and equals
- Every answer cites its page
Ready to respond.
The bids that fit come first, with the reasons. The first draft of the response is ready when you are.
- Fit against your work
- The reasons on every bid
- A first draft, approved by you
Questions about bid intelligence
- What is bid intelligence?
- Knowing what is out to bid in your market and what each bid really asks for, before your team spends a day reading it.
- Which bids do you cover?
- Public bids from cities, counties, utilities, state DOTs and federal agencies, from their own portals and the public boards they post to.
- Does it read addenda?
- Yes. Each addendum is read against the original, and what changed is called out.
- What happens on the demo?
- Bring a few bids you are looking at. We go through what each one asks for and whether it fits.
Bring the work you’re looking at.
Thirty minutes on your own projects. We go through what each one is, whether it’s yours, and what to do next.