Bidding to schools, cities and counties
Every week a school district or a county puts work like yours out to bid. The ones you'd win reach you with the response already written. You price it and you sign it.
Twenty minutes. You'll see what's open right now for a business like yours, and you'll know whether it's worth chasing. No obligation either way.
What reaches you
Illustrative. Real ones carry the buyer, the documents and the exact deadline.
The problem
So the good ones reach you from a customer, a week after they closed. You catch one in time, open it, and find on page 61 that it needed a certification you don't hold. The one you could win gets written at 11pm, twice a year, on whatever happened to land in the inbox.
This is what it looks like when someone else does that job.
Why this fits
Biggest thing on your board this month, and the scope suits you. Custodial-only shops can't self-perform grounds, so they'll subcontract it and it'll show in their number. BEP participation is required; name your certified partner and you've covered it.
Sample entry. Real ones carry the buyer, the documents and the exact deadline.
Where this came from
Before it was offered to anyone, this was the department we couldn’t hire for our own businesses. Three of them, in unrelated trades, all selling to public buyers.
So we built it ourselves. Nothing missed, every solicitation read in full, every response written properly, and a debrief requested on every loss. By the time we opened it up to other companies it had read more than 1,500 solicitations and submitted more than 300 responses. Our own bids, our own money on the line.
Same desk, same people, now working for you.
How it works
Done for you, by people. You hear from us when something is worth your time.
You set the price and you sign it. Everything before that is ours. See our process in full.
Industries we cover
Examples, not a list of everything. If a public body buys what you sell, we can bid it. Ask about yours on the call.
Every response is written for one company and never reused. Not on the list? Ask on the call.
See it for yourself
A sample of what we are working through for clients this week, with the buyer withheld. Yours would arrive read, graded and ready to respond to.
Before you book
You do, always. Every certification and representation in a public bid is yours to make, so you are the signatory on every page that needs one. We prepare the submission, you approve it and sign it, and we lodge it on your instruction. We never sign anything on your behalf.
You do. Pricing is the one part of a bid that genuinely has to come from you. What we do is make it an informed number. We tell you what the current contractor was paid. Where the buyer attached the last award tabulation (its record of every bid received), we tell you what it showed. And we tell you how heavily this particular buyer weights price against everything else.
We request the debrief: the buyer’s explanation of how the bids were scored. Most public agencies must give you one if you ask, and almost nobody asks. It tells us what the evaluators actually weighted, where the pricing landed and what the winner did differently. That goes straight into the next response. Over a year it becomes a record of how the buyers in your market decide.
Your profile is built in the first week: licenses, insurance, bonding, certifications, references, the contract sizes you can absorb. From there it depends on your trade and your states. The first qualified match typically turns up within the first month. We would rather wait for one you can win than send you something to keep busy. We will tell you on the call what the volume looks like in your market.
Sometimes more than one company in a trade works with us. What never happens is the same proposal going out twice. Every response is built from your business: your references, your approach, your pricing. No client ever sees another client’s matches, documents or profile.
Scoped on the call to the volume in your trade and states. It is less than the person you would otherwise have to hire, and we only propose it if there is enough real work to justify it. If there isn’t, we will say so, and you will have lost twenty minutes.
Want to talk today?
Book twenty minutes and you’ll see what’s open right now for a business like yours. Or just email us. A person answers within one business day.
