Question 1

What exactly do you do?

Accepted Answer

I run the front half of your bidding process. I monitor every procurement platform that matters in your jurisdictions, find the opportunities, read the documents, and qualify the fit against your trades and capacity. Then I hand you a short, plain-language summary and a direct link to the source bid. You take it from there: pricing, proposal, submission.

Question 2

Do you write the proposal or submit the bid for me?

Accepted Answer

No, and that is deliberate. You know your pricing and your crews better than anyone. I find and qualify the opportunity so your estimators spend their hours on bids you can actually win, instead of reading through dozens that were never a fit.

Question 3

Are you a procurement consultant?

Accepted Answer

Not in the usual sense. I am not here to advise on procurement strategy, write proposals, or teach you to use a platform. I do one thing and do it well: find, read and qualify government opportunities so your team only spends time on the bids worth winning.

Question 4

Do you work with my existing bid writer or proposal team?

Accepted Answer

Happily. I sit upstream of them. I deliver a qualified shortlist; they turn it into winning responses. Most clients find their writers get far more productive when they are only working bids that were qualified first.

Question 5

Which platforms do you monitor?

Accepted Answer

The ones your buyers actually use: MERX, BidNet Direct, CanadaBuys and SAM.gov, plus Bonfire, Biddingo, bids&tenders, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba, PlanetBids, OpenGov, DemandStar, Ion Wave, GovWin, Periscope, GSA eBuy, USASpending and the state and provincial systems behind them. Coverage follows your jurisdictions, not a fixed list.

Question 6

What if my buyers use a portal you have not mentioned?

Accepted Answer

Then I add it. The named platforms are the common ones, but coverage follows your buyers. If an agency you sell to posts somewhere specific, that becomes part of what I watch.

Question 7

Do you cover both Canada and the United States?

Accepted Answer

Yes. I work across all Canadian provinces and territories and all 50 U.S. states, plus federal procurement in both countries. Coverage is built around your real footprint, on either side of the border.

Question 8

How fast will I see opportunities?

Accepted Answer

Quickly. On a discovery call I will already have looked at your jurisdictions, so you see real examples before you ever pay. Once we start, you get opportunities on a steady cadence as they post and close, not in an end-of-month dump.

Question 9

What if my trade is niche?

Accepted Answer

Niche is where this pays off most. The narrower your lane, the more your work hides under generic titles and inside larger packages, and the more a keyword alert misses. I learn how your trade actually gets described by buyers, then watch for it everywhere.

Question 10

How is this different from the bid alerts I already get?

Accepted Answer

Alerts tell you something exists. They do not tell you whether it is worth your time. A keyword alert misfires constantly: it floods you with work outside your lane and stays silent on the bid filed under a title you did not think to search. I read the actual documents and tell you what matters, what the catch is, and whether it fits. Alerts are a firehose. What I send is a shortlist.

Question 11

How is pricing structured?

Accepted Answer

Flat monthly coverage. Not per opportunity, not per portal, not hourly. You pick the geographic coverage you need (a single province or state, a region, or national) and I cover everything inside it. Pricing is public and starts at $599 a month.

Question 12

How long is the commitment?

Accepted Answer

Coverage is a 12-month commitment, billed monthly. It takes a full year to catch your complete opportunity cycle, annual contracts, renewals and the seasonal bids that only come around once. A shorter window would only ever show you part of the picture.

Question 13

Is there a free trial?

Accepted Answer

Rather than a trial, I show you the work upfront. On a discovery call you see real opportunities in your jurisdictions, and you can request a sample opportunity any time. You judge the quality before you commit a dollar.

Questions, answered plainly

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Stop wasting estimator time on the wrong bids.