Bid intelligence for facility & trades contractors
Every government bid worth your time.
None of the noise.
Cities, counties, school districts, states, and federal agencies post billions in facility work across thousands of portals, newspapers, and board agendas. BidLookout monitors all of it for your trades — and sends you only the bids that match your company. Read by an analyst. Verified by hand.
- ~5 matched briefs a week
- Addenda & walk-through alerts
- Cancel anytime
Monitoring across federal — SAM.govstate portalscounty purchasingcity e-bid platformsschool districtstransit & airportslegal noticesboard agendaspurchasing co-ops
The problem
Public work is published everywhere — and watched nowhere.
Government buyers are required to advertise their bids. But every city, county, district, and authority chooses its own portal, newspaper, and agenda system. No contractor has time to watch it all — so good companies miss contracts they would have won.
A dozen portals per metro
Every buyer picks its own e-bid platform. Watching one portal means missing the other eleven.
Newspaper legal notices
Smaller cities and districts still advertise bids in print — notices that never reach any portal alert.
Board agendas
Purchases appear in council and school-board agendas before the RFP exists — and award items publish every bidder's price.
Purchasing co-ops
Buyers that "never bid" often purchase through cooperative contracts instead. We tell you which contract to get on.
How it works
A research desk for your bid pipeline — without the hire.
Tell us what you run
A 20-minute intake builds your match profile: trades, service area, contract size, bonding capacity, licenses, certifications, and your instant no-gos — distance, prevailing wage, walk-through availability.
We watch everything
Every morning an analyst sweeps every relevant source — federal, state, county, city, school district, transit, airport, housing, university — plus legal notices, board agendas, and co-op solicitations.
You get only what fits
A weekly digest of matched one-page briefs, plus urgent alerts the moment an addendum moves a deadline or a mandatory walk-through lands inside 72 hours.
What you get
One page per opportunity. Everything that decides bid / no-bid.
No dashboards to learn, no feeds to triage. Each opportunity arrives as a one-page brief an estimator can act on in ninety seconds.
- Fit, scored against your profile — not a keyword match.
- Verified deadlines — due dates, pre-bid times, and mandatory items confirmed by a person against the source document. Never auto-published.
- Requirements up front — bonds, insurance, licenses, wage rules. The disqualifiers, before you commit a crew.
- Pricing history — past awards and bid tabulations: who won last time, and at what price.
- The no-bid call — every digest includes at least one "skip this one" with the reason. Filtering is the product.
"Five good-fit briefs,
The standard we operate by
not sixty subject lines."
Why BidLookout
Keyword alerts forward. We filter.
| Free portal alerts | BidLookout | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | One portal at a time | Every relevant source — portals, legal notices, board agendas, co-ops |
| Volume | 60+ raw subject lines a week | ~5 verified, matched briefs |
| Reading the documents | You do it | We do it — scope, bonds, insurance, walk-throughs |
| Deadlines & addenda | Easy to miss | Tracked, re-checked weekly, urgent alerts |
| Pricing history | — | Past awards & bid tabs in every brief |
| No-bid advice | Never | "Skip this one" warnings, with reasons |
One missed mandatory walk-through is an automatic disqualification. Preventing that once pays for the year.
Coverage
Built for the trades that keep public buildings running.
Coverage is built around your trades, your counties, and the buyers you can actually serve — anywhere in the U.S.
Pricing
Less than four hours of admin time a month.
One janitorial contract at $15k/month is $180k a year. Your radar costs less than the time you'd spend checking portals badly.
Pilot
Prove it on your own bids before you commit.
- Full Standard service for 30 days
- Intake profile & source map for your area
- Weekly digest + urgent alerts
- One-time payment — no card kept on file
Standard
Your ongoing radar — tuned tighter every month.
- ~5 matched one-page briefs weekly
- Urgent deadline, addenda & walk-through alerts
- Pricing intelligence from awards & bid tabs
- Expiring-contract watchlist
- Monthly 15-minute tuning call
- Cancel anytime
Concierge
A bid-desk analyst on your team.
- Everything in Standard
- Weekly 30-minute pipeline review
- Bid / no-bid recommendations
- Incumbent & expiring-contract research
- Co-op contract navigation
FAQ
Common questions.
Is this another bid-alert tool?
No. Alert tools match keywords on a single portal and forward everything. BidLookout is an analyst service: a person reads the actual solicitation documents, verifies every date and mandatory requirement against the source, and sends you only what fits your profile — with the reasons spelled out.
What areas do you cover?
We onboard contractors across the U.S. Coverage is built source-by-source around your service area: the cities, counties, school districts, authorities, and state and federal feeds that matter to the work you actually want.
How is this different from the free alerts I already get?
Those watch one portal and dump every keyword hit into your inbox. We watch every relevant source — including school districts, newspaper legal notices, and board agendas no portal covers — and we read the documents: mandatory walk-throughs, bond requirements, addenda. You get a handful of good-fit briefs, not sixty subject lines.
Do you submit bids for us?
No. We find, filter, verify, and brief. Your team decides what to chase and submits the bid. That separation keeps us objective about what's worth your time — including telling you when to skip one.
What if a brief gets something wrong?
Every high-stakes field — due dates, pre-bid times, mandatory flags, bond amounts — is verified by a person against the official document before it reaches you, and every brief links to the source with an as-of timestamp. The official solicitation and its addenda always control, and we re-check addenda on every tracked bid weekly.
Can I cancel?
Anytime, effective at the end of your billing period. The pilot is a one-time payment — we don't keep a card on file unless you continue.
See your first matched bids this week.
Tell us what you run and where. We'll reply within one business day with live bids that match your work — judge us on those before you spend a dollar.
- No spam, no list-selling
- One reply from a person
- No card required