Get an email the moment a public job in your trade opens. See who bid on every past job, what they bid, and who won. Keep tabs on your competitors. All of California, in one place.
Real results from California public agencies. Type a job, an agency or a company — or pick a trade.
We gather bid results from hundreds of public agencies every day, clean up every company name, and put it all in one place — so you stop digging through bid boards and PDFs.
Pick your trades, counties and job size. We email you new open bids every morning — or every hour on Pro — with due dates and estimates.
Who bid on each job, the exact amounts, how far over the low bid everyone landed, the engineer's estimate, and who won.
Follow your rivals. Get an email when they bid or win, see their win rate, where they bid, and how you stack up head to head.
How many companies usually bid an agency's jobs, how far under the estimate the low bid lands, and who keeps winning there.
State and federal contracts with end dates, so you hear about the job months before it's re-bid — and who holds it today.
Every Monday: who won in your trade and county, how many bid, and how low the winning bids came in. Print it or forward it.
Pick your trades and the counties you work in. Add a keyword or a minimum job size if you like.
New open bids and fresh results land in your inbox on your schedule. No logging into a dozen bid boards.
Before you price a job, see who usually bids it, what they bid last time, and how low it went.
Save a search once and we'll keep watching for you.
Bid boards show one agency at a time. Most alert services stop at open bids. We give you the results and the competition too.
| TheBidTab | Bid alert services | Bid-result newsletters | Bid boards | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open bid alerts | Yes | Yes | No | One agency at a time |
| Who bid and how much | Yes | No | Yes | One agency at a time |
| All trades, all of California | Yes | Yes | One trade, few counties | No |
| Competitor tracking | Yes | No | Partial | No |
| Contracts ending soon | Yes | No | No | No |
| Price | Free, or from $24/mo | $100–$500 / month | ~$600 / county / month | Free–$500 / month |
Simple monthly plans. Cancel anytime.
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No. You sign in with your email, pick your trades and counties, and the alerts come to your inbox. Everything else is point-and-click. (Developers who want the raw data can use the API on the Team plan.)
Public records. We read the bid results California public agencies publish on their bid boards (PlanetBids, OpenGov, Bonfire and others), agency bid-result pages and bid summaries, Caltrans bid results, the State's purchasing records and federal award data. We also archive results that bid boards take down after a few weeks.
We check the bid boards around the clock. New results usually show up within a day of the agency posting them, and alerts go out on your schedule.
We only call someone the winner when the agency says so. Otherwise we show the low bid. Public work usually goes to the lowest responsive bidder, but not always, so we keep the two apart.
All trades — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, paving, water and sewer, building, landscaping, janitorial, painting and more — from cities, counties, school and college districts, universities, utilities, transit agencies, the State and federal buyers in California.
Yes, anytime from your account. If you cancel, you keep your plan until the end of what you paid for, then drop to the free plan.
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