Bid intelligence, not bid alerts.
I am Phil Dave. I watch every procurement platform that matters, read the bid documents, and qualify the fit, so your estimators stop drowning in portals and work only the opportunities worth pursuing. Across Canada and the United States.
01 / Threat assessment
Bids are not lost at the proposal. They are lost at the search.
By the time most contractors sit down to write, they have already lost hours to the part of the job nobody trained them for: finding the right work, on the right platform, before it closes.
Vector 01
Fragmented surveillance
A different login, search and alert setup for nearly every platform and municipality. No one is watching all of them at once.
Vector 02
Noise not signal
Keyword alerts fire on everything and qualify nothing. The one bid that mattered slips past, unread, in a full inbox.
Vector 03
Buried detail
The mandatory site meeting on page 14. The addendum that moved the close date. The catch you only find by opening the documents.
Vector 04
Titles you would never search
The work that fits you best is often filed under a heading you would never think to look under. If you are not watching the way buyers write, you never see it.
02 / Doctrine
Four phases. I run the first three.
Phase 01
Monitor
I watch every platform serving your jurisdictions, continuously, so nothing depends on you remembering to log in.
Phase 02
Read
I open the documents: scope, requirements, evaluation criteria, site meetings, addenda, the catch.
Phase 03
Qualify
I judge fit against your trade, capacity and footprint, and set aside the bids that were never right for you.
Phase 04
You bid
You get a short, plain language summary and a link to the source bid. Your team prices and submits. That part stays yours.
03 / Screening engine
Watch a bid qualify itself against your profile.
Illustrative demonstration
Capability profile
Turn on your trades, then cycle the postings. Watch the fit change. This is the judgment I run on every posting, every day.
Incoming posting
Custodial services, 3 elementary schools
- Buyer
- District School Board
- Platform
- MERX
- Region
- Ontario
- Trade
- Janitorial
- Value
- $1.2M / 3 years
- Closes
- 18 days
STRONG FIT, PURSUE
04 / Cost of the current posture
The search has a price. You are already paying it.
Every hour spent monitoring portals, opening documents and triaging alerts is an hour not spent winning. Here is what that hour is worth.
Doing it in house
$31,114
a year in monitoring time
$2,593 a month
- Attention split with estimating
- Coverage stops on vacation
Tier II · Regional
$14,500
a year, dedicated. Starting figure for this footprint, your industry sets the final number.
$16,614 freed up over the year
Estimate only. Fees start at the figures shown and rise with industry workload.
05 / Coverage board
Where I am already watching.
Twenty jurisdictions on the board, every Canadian province and the biggest US state markets, plus federal on both sides. Node size is the number of platforms I monitor there.
18 platforms monitored
Node size = platform count
View the jurisdiction list
| Jurisdiction | Type | Platforms monitored |
|---|---|---|
| Canada, Federal | Federal | CanadaBuys, MERX, Bonfire |
| Ontario | Province | MERX, Biddingo, bids&tenders, Ontario Tenders Portal |
| Quebec | Province | SEAO, MERX, Bonfire |
| British Columbia | Province | BC Bid, MERX, Bonfire |
| Alberta | Province | Alberta Purchasing Connection, bids&tenders, MERX |
| Manitoba | Province | MERX, Bonfire |
| Saskatchewan | Province | SaskTenders, MERX |
| Nova Scotia | Province | NS Tenders, MERX |
| New Brunswick | Province | NBON, MERX |
| United States, Federal | Federal | SAM.gov, GSA eBuy, DIBBS |
| California | State | Cal eProcure, BidNet Direct, Bonfire |
| Texas | State | ESBD, BidNet Direct |
| New York | State | NYS Contract Reporter, BidNet Direct |
| Illinois | State | BidBuy, BidNet Direct |
| Georgia | State | Georgia Procurement Registry, BidNet Direct |
| Washington | State | WEBS, BidNet Direct |
| Colorado | State | Colorado BIDS, Rocky Mountain e-Purchasing |
| Florida | State | MyFloridaMarketPlace, DemandStar |
| Massachusetts | State | COMMBUYS, BidNet Direct |
| Michigan | State | SIGMA VSS, BidNet Direct |
06 / Platform expertise
Every Canadian portal, plus the US when you bid south of the border.
MERX
Aggregator · CANThe best known Canadian aggregator, but its categories mislead and its notifications miss the work filed under the wrong heading.
CanadaBuys
Government · CANThe Government of Canada tender service. The front door for federal work, where the real detail lives in the attached documents, not the notice.
SAM.gov
Government · USAThe United States federal front door. Set asides, NAICS codes and IDIQ vehicles decide who is eligible long before the keywords do.
BC Bid
Province · BCBritish Columbia provincial work, plus a long tail of regional districts and health authorities posting where a saved search never looks.
Biddingo
SaaS portal · CANHeavy in Ontario MASH: municipalities, school boards and hospitals. Good work hides under generic titles and inside larger packages.
bids&tenders
SaaS portal · CAN/USAOne SaaS portal per buyer, each with its own login and alert quirks. The volume is real, the categorization is not consistent.
SEAO
Province · QCMandatory for Quebec public bodies, with French language documents throughout and rules a keyword alert was never built to read.
BidNet Direct
Purchasing groups · USARegional purchasing groups across hundreds of state and local agencies. Registration and notification quirks quietly cost you bids.
Bonfire
SaaS portal · CAN/USAA submission portal as much as a discovery one. Buyers post here and nowhere else, so the only way to see it is to watch it.
Plus Alberta Purchasing Connection, SaskTenders, NBON, the Ontario Tenders Portal and every state system in your footprint. See all platforms covered.
07 / Coverage & pricing
Coverage, scoped to your footprint. Billed once a year.
One payment for a full year of coverage, never a monthly plan. The figure is set by your industry and how many jurisdictions you bid. There is no per opportunity charge. I review as many as it takes.
Tier I · Single jurisdiction
One province or state
$6,500 to $9,500 / year
Billed annually. Figure set by your industry.
- 40 to 60 qualified opportunities guaranteed
- Every platform serving one province or state
- Documents opened, read and summarized
- Fit qualified against your trade and capacity
- Direct links to the source bid
Tier II · Regional
Up to five jurisdictions plus federal
$14,500 to $22,000 / year
Billed annually. Figure set by your industry.
- 100 to 150 qualified opportunities guaranteed
- Up to five provinces or states, plus federal
- Everything in Tier I, across your whole region
- Priority alerts when a bid cannot wait
- Shared dashboard and a weekly brief
Tier III · National & cross border
Canada, the US, or both
$29,000 to $45,000 / year
Billed annually. Figure set by your industry.
- 250 to 400 qualified opportunities guaranteed
- Nationwide coverage, Canada, the US, or both
- Federal, provincial, state and local, end to end
- Everything in Tier II, at national scale
- A standing line to me when a bid cannot wait
Guaranteed opportunity counts are set with you at intake, per trade and footprint. Annual only. There is no monthly plan.
08 / Operator file
I came up inside the platforms themselves.
I did not come to this from the outside. For three and a half years I worked inside the eprocurement industry, handling more than 17,500 contractor accounts across a portfolio of major procurement platforms in Canada and the United States.
My job was keeping contractors getting real value from those platforms, which means I saw exactly where they lose bids: not at the proposal, at the search. Now I do that part for you, from your side of the table.
09 / Debrief
The things contractors ask me first.
Do you write or submit the proposal?
No. I am not a bid writer and I do not submit anything on your behalf. I find, read and qualify the opportunities. Pricing and proposals stay with your team, where they belong.
How is this different from the alerts I already get?
Alerts fire on keywords and qualify nothing. I read the documents, judge the fit against your trade and capacity, and hand you a short list with a verdict, not a full inbox you still have to triage.
What if you miss a bid?
Every term carries a guaranteed minimum of qualified opportunities, set against your trade and footprint when we start. If I do not deliver it, I keep working at no charge until I do.
We already have someone in house. Why you?
Then you already know how many hours the search eats. I take the monitoring, reading and qualification off their plate so those hours go into pricing and winning instead of living in portals.
How is pricing set, and what is the guarantee?
Coverage is scoped to your footprint and billed once a year, never monthly. The figure is set by your industry and the number of jurisdictions. Each tier carries a guaranteed minimum of qualified opportunities, agreed with you at intake.
10 / Request intel
See what you are missing. Free.
Tell me your trade and where you bid. I go through the platforms serving your footprint and send back a short list of real, currently open opportunities you have not seen, read, qualified and linked.
> secure intake channel open > operator: phil dave, government opportunity intelligence > send your trade and jurisdictions. i reply with real qualified bids. > no cost. no obligation.