The government reserves billions for small businesses. You're not missing out because your work is weak — you're missing out because qualifying opportunities eats evenings you don't have, so you bid blind or don't bid at all.
A broker, a rumor, a spam-filled alert. By the time it reaches you, the clock's half gone.
Scope on page 3 of one attachment, the award method on page 35 of another, the wage floor in a third file entirely.
Hours poured into a contract quietly wired for the incumbent — while the winnable one closed without you noticing.
Read the actual product — two current briefs, unedited, from live solicitations. Half the value is the one that tells you to walk away.
Sample: a BID verdictSample: a SKIP verdict
| Word of mouth | Free SAM alerts | Alert services | Consultants | BidBrief | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reads the actual RFP | No | No | No | Yes | Yes · daily |
| Price guidance | Gut feel | None | None | By hand | Wage-floor benchmark |
| Who held it before | Rumor | None | None | Extra fee | FPDS award history |
| Tells you to skip | No | No | No | Rarely | Yes |
| Your time per bid | Hours | 6–8 hrs | 6–8 hrs | ~1 hr + fees | ~5 min |
| Cost / year | Missed work | $0 | $360–1,200 | $25–75k | $2,988 |
Your trade, your states, and any set-aside certifications — WOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB.
New solicitations, every attachment, the wage determinations, the award history — each morning.
Only what's relevant, filtered to what you can win, with a BID or SKIP and the reasons behind it.
A single proposal you shouldn't have chased burns 40+ hours of your team's time. BidBrief costs less than one hour of that — a month — and its whole job is making sure you never chase that one again.
First brief within a day.
No. Alerts forward you a title and a deadline. We read the actual RFP and tell you whether to bid, what it pays, and who you're up against. The judgment is the product — the alert is free everywhere.
Not today, and that's deliberate. We help you decide which bids deserve your proposal effort so you stop burning it on unwinnable ones. Winning is a long game; we save you the wasted evenings in between.
You can — if you know FPDS exists, can read a wage determination, and will do it every single morning without skipping. Most owners' time is worth more running crews and selling. We do the tedious part so you don't.
No — and be wary of anyone who does. We give you the historical award range and the mandatory wage floor. Your final number depends on your own overhead, which only you know. Blindly matching someone else's number is how firms win a contract that bankrupts them.