Federal Construction Bid Desk

The bid package, assembled. You price the job.

A federal construction solicitation arrives with a stack of attachments — typically six to fourteen, sometimes more than thirty. Forms, amendments, wage determinations, bid schedules, specs. I go through all of it and hand back a complete, submission-ready package. You put the numbers in it.

Send me a notice number See what you get back

What actually loses these bids

Not the price, and not the work. Federal construction bids get thrown out before anyone looks at the number:

What happens	What it costs
SF-1442 unsigned or a block left blank	Non-responsive, not evaluated
Bid guarantee missing or the wrong amount	Rejected outright
An amendment never acknowledged	Non-responsive
Wrong wage determination attached	Rework, or a price that doesn’t hold
Bid schedule line items incomplete	Unevaluatable
Uploaded after the cutoff by ten minutes	The whole pursuit, gone

Every one of those is clerical. None of them is why you’d lose to a better contractor — and all of them happen at 10pm two days out, to whoever is already doing three jobs.

How it works

Send me the notice number. That’s all I need to start.
I read it and tell you exactly what it requires — every form, every amendment, every deadline — with a fixed price to assemble it. That part is free, and you see it before you commit to anything.
I work the package. Every attachment read, every amendment tracked, SF-1442 and the reps and certs completed, the right wage determination attached, bid schedule laid out, bid guarantee requirements flagged with dates.
You price the job. Your numbers, your judgement, your signature.
You get a submission checklist with the deadline, the method, and what still needs your signature.

Pricing

$100 per attachment.
$300 minimum. $2,000 maximum.

That’s it. Count the attachments on the notice and you know the price before you ask me. No retainer, no percentage of award, no bracket to fall on the wrong side of.

Attachments	You pay
3	$300
6 — a typical solicitation	$600
10	$1,000
16	$1,600
20 or more	$2,000

What stays with you

The price. I never see your costs or your margin, and I don’t want to.
The technical approach and any means-and-methods narrative.
The signature and the upload. Your certification, your submission.

Everything between — reading forty pages of attachments, tracking amendments, filling the forms, chasing the wage determination, building the checklist — is mine.

The questions I get asked first

How do you know what a bid costs before you’ve read it?

Because the attachment list is public the moment the notice posts. I can see how many documents, which forms, and whether there are drawings before I quote. That’s why you get a real number instead of a discovery call.

Do you handle the bonding?

No — that’s between you and your surety. I flag what the solicitation requires and when, so the bid guarantee isn’t the thing that kills it.

What about Davis-Bacon and certified payroll?

At bid time I make sure the correct wage determination is attached and current. Certified payroll is performance, after award — different job, and not this one.

Do you use AI?

Yes, to read the attachments and track requirements — that’s why this costs $600 instead of $6,000. Then I check it. Every item on your checklist cites the page it came from, so you can verify any of it in a couple of minutes.

What’s the commitment?

None. Per bid. If the first one isn’t useful, don’t send a second.

Start with one you’re already looking at

Send me a notice number for something you’re considering. I’ll come back with what the solicitation requires, what’s easy to miss in it, and what it would cost me to run it. No charge for that, and no obligation.

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