City bid desk for small trade shops
Bids in play that you would never have submitted, complete and on time.
Pipeline Bid Desk finds city jobs that fit your license, builds your packet, and tracks every deadline. You review, sign, and submit from your own account. Your name, your account, your final say on every number. We do everything except be you.
Built for small California trade contractors. Now onboarding plumbing shops in Southern California.
Deadline tracked from day one. Reminders run until you confirm the bid is in.
The problem
Good shops lose city work on paperwork, not price
City work goes to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder. Responsive comes first, and it is a paperwork test: the right forms, the right registrations, every signature in place, in before the deadline.
Miss one piece and your price is never even read. The job goes to a shop that may charge more, simply because their packet was complete.
Add the realities of public work: prevailing wage on every job, registrations scattered across dozens of city portals, and some cities still running sealed paper bids that have to be physically delivered, on time, to a clerk's office.
proposals came in for one city plumbing contract
were thrown out as nonresponsive before pricing decided anything
- One bidder could not prove the required experience.
- One bidder had no proof of DIR registration.
- Elsewhere, cities still require sealed paper bids with a 10 percent bid bond and a stack of signed forms.
How it works
Your standing folder does the heavy lifting
One setup, then a steady system: matched jobs in, complete packets out, deadlines watched until the bid is submitted.
Standing folder
Once, in about an hour of your time: license, insurance, W-9, references, rate sheet, and standard forms, stored once and reused on every bid. Roughly 80 percent of every California city solicitation is the same core paperwork, so we only chase what is new.
Job radar
Matched city jobs across the portals and city sites, filtered to your trade, your license class, and your service area. Deadlines tracked, with a digest of what fits and what each job asks for.
Bid packet prep
Each packet assembled from your folder, city forms filled, price worksheet ready for your numbers, with a short checklist of anything still missing. You review it, sign it, and submit it from your own vendor account.
Reminder ladder
A finished packet does no good sitting in an inbox. The ladder below runs on every live bid, so the packet actually gets submitted, on time, every time.
Text and emailYour packet is built and waiting for your review and signature.
Text reminderThe deadline is three days away and the packet status is confirmed with you.
A callWe call to confirm the bid is going in, and how.
Confirmed hand deliveryFor sealed paper bids, delivery to the clerk's office is confirmed, not assumed.
Pricing intel, every cycle
After every bid opening, you get who won and at what price, and where your bid landed. No more pricing blind: your numbers get smarter with every cycle you bid.
Start here
The 48 Hour Opportunity Audit
Do not take our word for any of this. Ask for the audit and judge us on your own market, in writing, within 48 hours.
Every open job that fits, right now
Every open city job matching your license and service area, with deadlines and what each one requires.
What you missed in the last 90 days
Jobs in your area that you never saw, with what each one awarded for, pulled from public award records.
One live job, packet half built
A real, current job with its packet started, so you can see exactly what working with us looks like before you pay for anything.
If you continue
- A card goes on file when you sign up to continue.
- The 48 hour cancel clock starts when the audit is delivered, not at signup. Cancel inside the window and you are not charged.
- The first charge is the first month only: $249 for Bid Desk or $499 for Full Desk. The setup fee is invoiced when onboarding starts, not stacked onto that charge.
Pricing
Founding terms, in writing
Two simple tiers. No step ups. We would rather get you in the door.
Bid Desk
$249/mo
Every job that fits, plus complete packets built for your signature.
- Job radar with matched alerts for city jobs that fit your license and area
- Deadline tracking on every job in play
- 4 full bid packets per month, assembled from your standing folder
- Win and price reports after every bid opening
- Unused packets roll over into a bank capped at 8, so a quiet month is never wasted
- Extra packets are $75 each
Full Desk
$499/mo
Everything in Bid Desk, with no packet limit and first in line.
- Everything in Bid Desk
- Unlimited packets, no cap and no extra packet fees
- Priority turnaround on every packet
- Quarterly pricing strategy review built from your bid history
Our guarantee
Our guarantee: satisfied, or we refund you
Give it two full months. Use this service the way it is built to be used for two months, and if you are not satisfied, we refund every dollar you paid us. No fine print games. The service only works if it gets used, so the guarantee has three conditions, and all three are things a serious bidder does anyway:
Finish your onboarding folderSo we can build real packets.
Review each packet when it landsCheck it, sign it, and send it back fast enough to meet the deadline.
Submit the bids and competeSubmit the bids and compete for the work.
Two months of doing your part, and the risk is ours, not yours.
Honest expectations
Straight talk before you sign up
Getting your shop bid ready takes 2 to 6 weeks, and your bonding line is the wild card. We will tell you exactly where you stand in your audit.
The goal is your first real bid inside 60 days.
We do not promise wins. Nobody honest can. Even experienced bidders win about 1 in 4 to 1 in 8.
Here is what we do promise: real bids, complete and on time, that you would never have submitted without us, and the pricing intel to get sharper every single cycle.
Who it is for
Licensed California contractors, starting with plumbing
We are onboarding C-36 plumbing shops in Southern California first: licensed shops where the owner is also estimating, bidding, and working in the field, with no hours left to watch bid portals.
DIR registration is required for public works. If your shop is not registered yet, we help you get registered as part of getting bid ready.
You always submit your own bids
That is deliberate, and it protects you. We find the work, build the packet, and chase the deadline. Your bid, your bond, your signature. Nothing goes in under your name that you have not reviewed and approved.
Free to ask
Request your 48 Hour Opportunity Audit
Fill in the form and press send. Your completed request is sent straight to us as an email, and your audit is in line.
You will get every open job that fits your shop right now, what you missed in the last 90 days and what it awarded for, and one live job with its packet half built.
No card required to askRequest sent
Request sent. We will be in touch about your 48 Hour Opportunity Audit.