One bid, fully read. Before you open the spec.
Send us a public bid and the products you sell. We read the whole package and email you each product family with its quantity, whether you're named, “or equal” or not named, which competitors are named, BABA, bond, insurance, the engineer of record and the package value. Every answer comes with its page.
- Who reads itA person on our team
- WhenWithin one business day
- CostFree, no card
A water bid, read for valves, pumps and meters.
This is what comes back, from a made-up bid. Each page number links to the line the answer was read from.
Plant 2 filter rehabilitation and high-service pumps
Example data
- Engineer of record
- Tamsett and Clore Engineers p. 1
- Package value
- $18.4M engineer's estimate p. 4
- Bids due
- Dec 9, 2026, 2:00 pm p. 4
- BABA
- Required, state revolving fund p. 41
- Bond
- 5% bid bond, 100% performance p. 9
- Insurance
- $2M per occurrence, $5M umbrella p. 52
| Product family | Quantity | How it’s specified | Makers named | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butterfly valves | 22, 12 to 36 in. | Named, no equal | Delacorte Valve | p. 214 |
| Resilient wedge gate valves | 31, 4 to 12 in. | Named, or equal | Kestrel Flow, Northvane | p. 201 |
| Swing check valves | 8, 8 to 16 in. | Named, or equal | Harrow Valve, Northvane | p. 207 |
| Air release and vacuum valves | 14, 2 and 4 in. | Named, or equal | Kestrel Flow, Harrow Valve | p. 431 |
| Vertical turbine pumps | 3, 150 hp | Not named | None | p. 251 |
| Magnetic flow meters | 4, 12 to 24 in. | Named, or equal | Ostrander Metering | p. 296 |
Pages cited
- Page 1, Cover sheet“Prepared by Tamsett and Clore Engineers. Engineer's seal, sheet G-001.”
- Page 4, Invitation to bid“Sealed bids received until 2:00 pm, December 9, 2026. Engineer's estimate $18,400,000.”
- Page 41, 00 73 19, Build America, Buy America“Funded in part by the state revolving fund. Iron, steel, manufactured products and construction materials shall be produced in the United States.”
- Page 9, Bid form and 00 61 13“Bid security of five percent of the bid. Performance and payment bonds, each at 100% of the contract price.”
- Page 52, 00 73 16, Insurance requirements“Commercial general liability, $2,000,000 each occurrence. Umbrella liability, $5,000,000.”
- Page 214, 40 05 64, Butterfly valves, and sheet M-501“Delacorte Valve Series 900. No substitutions, to match the district's existing actuators.”
- Page 201, 40 05 61, Gate valves“Kestrel Flow RW-250, Northvane 4100, or approved equal.”
- Page 207, 40 05 65, Check valves“Harrow Valve 600 Series or Northvane SC, or approved equal.”
- Page 431, Valve schedule, sheet M-502“ARV-1 through ARV-14. Kestrel Flow or Harrow Valve, or equal. Eight at 2 in., six at 4 in.”
- Page 251, 43 21 39, Vertical turbine pumps“Three pumps, 150 hp, 3,500 gpm at 210 ft TDH. Performance specified; no manufacturer listed.”
- Page 296, 40 71 13, Magnetic flow meters“Ostrander Metering M-Series or equal, sizes per the instrument schedule.”
What every read covers.
Read for the product lines you name. If the bid has nothing of yours in it, we say so, and that takes thirty seconds to read instead of thirty minutes.
- Product families and quantities
- Each family you sell that appears in the bid, with how many and what sizes, from the specifications and the schedules on the drawings.
- Named, or equal, or not named
- Whether the spec names you with no equal, names you with “or equal”, or names no one, and which of your competitors it names.
- BABA
- Whether Build America, Buy America applies, and the funding that brings it in.
- Bond and insurance
- The bid bond, the performance and payment bonds, and the insurance limits.
- Engineer of record
- The firm that wrote the spec, which is who to see before the next one is written.
- Package value
- The engineer’s estimate or the budget, when the bid states one.
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Questions
Who reads the bid?
A person on our team reads the whole package, drawings included, and writes down the page behind every answer so you can check any of them in a minute.
How long does it take?
You'll hear back within one business day. If the documents sit behind a login, we'll email you to ask for them, and the day starts when we have them.
Which bids can you read?
Any public bid from a US or Canadian agency that comes with a spec: water and wastewater plants, pump stations, pipelines, buildings, roads. Paste the link from the agency's own site or portal, or tell us the bid and the agency and we'll find it.
What does “or equal” mean in a spec?
A spec that names one or more products and adds “or equal” or “or approved equal” lets another maker bid a product the engineer accepts as the same. A spec that names one product with no equal is a hard spec, often to match equipment the owner already runs. A performance spec names no maker at all and sets what the product has to do.
What does it cost?
Nothing, and we won't ask for a card. Capveon reads every bid in a territory this way for its customers. This is one bid, read for you, so you can judge the read yourself.
What happens to what I send?
We use it to read this bid and to write back to you, and for nothing else. Our privacy policy has the details.
Send us the next bid on your desk.
We'll read it for your products and email it back within one business day, with the page behind every answer.