Pre-RFP intelligence for public infrastructure.
Find public projects in the funding, the capital plan and the engineer selection, long before the RFP.
Elwha Dam and powerhouse from the air, Washington. HAER WASH,5-POAN.
By the RFP, the important decisions are made.
The owner has chosen an engineer, the engineer has drafted the design, and the products and scope are written in. The firms that win were usually part of those conversations.
Those conversations start in public records almost nobody reads: funding lists, capital plans, board minutes and design contracts.
One project, years before the bid.
A real project, quoted from its own design report and drawings.
Waters Avenue Force Main Replacement
Hillsborough County, Florida. 60 percent design.
- Materials
- Specified in the design report, page 16.
- Equipment
- Named manufacturers, or equal. Design report, page 18.
- Budget
- $61.5M estimate against a $24M budget. Design report, page 30.
- Engineer
- Named on the drawing cover.
- Timing
- Built by late 2028. Scope of work, page 1.
Early, over budget, and the design can still change. Worth a conversation with the engineer now.
The funding.
Grants, state loans, bonds and budget lines say what will be built, often years before it bids. Capveon reads them and names the project each one pays for.
- Grants, state loan lists and bonds
- What each one will build
- When it is likely to bid
The capital plan.
Capital improvement plans and master plans list projects years out, with budgets and dates. Capveon reads every one and tracks when a line becomes a project.
- Capital and master plans
- Budgets and planned years
- What changed since last year
The engineer selection.
When an owner hires a design engineer, the project is real and the design is about to be written. Capveon finds the selection in the agenda and names the firm.
- Design contracts and board votes
- The engineer behind each project
- Who to talk to, and when
Questions about pre-RFP intelligence
- What is pre-RFP intelligence?
- Knowing about a public project before its RFP or bid is published: from the funding, the capital plan, the board agenda or the engineer selection.
- How early can you see a project?
- Often years before it bids, when it first appears in a plan or a funding list.
- How do we know the early information is right?
- Every project opens to the page it came from, so your team can check it in seconds.
- What happens on the demo?
- Bring the owners or territories you care about. We go through what is coming in them, and who is behind it.
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.