Finding the bids, and reading them
Nobody at your company has the time to run a bid desk. So we run one for you.
Public buyers award this work constantly, and they actively want more bidders. The trouble is that 90,837 public bodies buy independently, on their own calendars, and the thing that decides whether you can bid is sixty pages into a PDF nobody has time to open. That work is ours now. You only hear about what survives 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. Not for you? It's all good.
What lands in your inbox
- Only work you're eligible to bid
- Only work you'd be genuinely good at
- Why it fits, in a paragraph, in plain English
- What it's likely worth, and who holds it now
- Enough time to actually decide
There's nothing for you to operate, and nothing to fall behind on.
What you can count on
Nothing you could win goes past you.
There are 90,837 public bodies in this country, and they buy independently, on their own calendars and their own rules. Keeping up with that is a full-time job. It is ours, and it happens every day, whether or not anything turns up.
You hear about it in time
Not three days before it closes with ninety pages to read. Early enough to price it properly, get your certificates together and write something that can win.
Including the ones nobody markets to you
A lot of public buyers never email anybody. They post, they wait, and they award to whoever showed up. Those are the ones with the shortest bidder list, and you hear about them too.
And only what you could actually win
Most of what gets published is not worth your afternoon. What reaches you has been read in full and judged against what your company can really do.
The part that matters
Why we turn most of it down
More results is the easy part. Anyone can send you four hundred notifications a month, and you're left with exactly the problem you started with: somebody still has to open each solicitation, read it to the end, and work out whether you can bid it at all. Working that out takes somebody who knows what a general conditions section is hiding. It's why most companies quietly stop opening the emails around week six.
So we do it the other way round. The full document gets read and the judgment call gets made before you ever see it, which means what reaches you is a short list where every item has already earned your attention. The thing that disqualifies you is never in the listing. It's a license you don't hold, a mandatory pre-bid meeting, a certificate due with the bid, a named product. It's on page sixty-one, and you'd have found it on a Friday night.
Companies that bid everything they see win about 12% of the time. Companies with a real go/no-go process average around 28%, and the best exceed 40%. Telling you to walk away is worth more than telling you to bid.
Win-rate figures are industry benchmarks from published proposal-management research; your own numbers will vary with your market and the work you chase.
How the sourcing works
Five simple steps.
1 We learn your business
Who you are, who you already sell to, how you actually deliver the work, where you're licensed and bonded, and what size contract you can absorb. This is also where we find out whether you're a fit. We'll tell you straight if you're not.
2 We find what's out there for you
Most of the work you could win comes from buyers who will never email you about it. Finding it is the job, and it happens every day, whether or not anything turns up. You don't operate anything or log in anywhere.
3 We give every one a verdict
We read the full solicitation (the buyer's bid document, often 60 to 90 pages) and decide whether you could win it and would be good at the work. You only ever see the ones that pass. That means we say no on your behalf constantly, and it is the single most valuable thing we do.
4 We write the response
The whole submission: the compliance matrix (a checklist proving you meet every requirement), the narrative, forms, certificates, references, formatting. Built to how that buyer scores, not to a template.
5 You price it, sign it and submit
You supply pricing and final approval, and you sign it. Every certification in a public bid is yours to make, always. Then we track it to award and ask for a debrief on anything we lose.
Steps one to three are the monthly service. Step four is priced per response, with a ceiling on any single one, and step five is yours: the pricing call and the signature have to come from you. See what the two numbers are.
Trades we work in
If a public body buys it, we can bid it.
Each one has its own guide to who buys it, what it pays and how the bids are scored.
Building & trades
Grounds & site
Facilities & services
Every response is written for one company and never reused. Not on the list? Ask on the call.
Where this came from
Our own companies were the first clients.
Before it was offered to anyone, this was the team we couldn’t hire for our own businesses. Three of them, in unrelated trades, all selling to schools, towns and agencies.
So we built it ourselves. Nothing missed, every bid 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 bids and submitted more than 300 responses. Our own bids, our own money on the line.
Same team, same method, now working for you.
On our own bids, before anyone else’s
Then what
Then somebody has to write it
Most companies that start seeing good opportunities hit the same wall about a month later. They can see the work, and they still don't have the days it takes to respond properly.
That's the other half of what we do: the full submission, written and reviewed by our team, ready for your pricing and your signature.
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. Our team answers within one business day.