For small government contractors
Bidwright's AI agents read the solicitation, check every requirement against your files, draft the proposal and build the price while you get on with the rest of the business.
You step in when your judgment matters. Review the work. Approve the price. Press submit.
Built for the contractor who has to chase the work, run the work and somehow write the proposal, too.
The week nobody pays you for
An RFP, its addenda, the answers the agency published on a Friday, and a stack of exhibits nobody indexes for you. The condition that sets you aside is on one of those pages. The proof it wants is on another. Miss the pair and there is no phone call and no second chance. Your bid is passed over and the contract goes to the firm that caught it. You are the whole bid team, and the deadline does not care.
The reading alone eats the week
Days you owed to the customers already paying you. Bid or bill. Most weeks you cannot do both.
The addendum drops Friday at 4:40
Behind a portal login you open on Tuesdays. It moves the date and adds a form. By Monday your checklist is wrong and you do not know it yet.
The price is a guess, and you know it
No record of what you bid last time. No record of what the winner bid, or how far off you were. So you pick a number and hope.
A finished bid can still lose on a login
Signed, priced, verified, and never filed, because the portal account was not active in time. That one is ours. It is the reason this product exists.
How it works
They read the solicitation, map every requirement to your own files, draft the proposal, build the price, then watch the portal until the award. Two steps sit outside their reach by design: approving the price and pressing submit. Both record a named person and the time, and every stage in between leaves a receipt you can open.
Inside the app
01Find and screen
Every bid on one board, sorted by what needs you first. Stage, agent progress, dollar value and the clock, at a glance. Go or no-go comes with a written reason, so six weeks from now you still know why you walked away.
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02Requirements
The agent reads the RFP, the addenda and the published answers, then writes every requirement as its own row: the agency's exact words, the type, and the file in your library that proves you meet it. Anything you fail goes to the top in black, while there is still time to fix it.
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03Proposal
Every narrative section is drafted from your own library, on your letterhead, in a block editor you can rewrite. When the county sends a form, it types into the county's own file. Never a rebuilt look-alike, because a look-alike is how a finished bid gets sent back mid evaluation. Drag your signature and seal where they belong.
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04Pricing
Rates from your card, hours from the scope, comparables from the bids you actually won and lost. Conservative, competitive and aggressive, with every multiplication showing. If a number breaks your margin floor it turns red before you fall in love with it, and the approval is yours alone.
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05Monitor
Addenda, published answers, tabulations, award notices, and the agency's reply to the questions you filed. Every check is logged, so a quiet week is a week that was actually checked. When the result lands it asks for the debrief and files what it learned where your next bid will trip over it.
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06Knowledge base
Drop in your insurance, references, rate card and registrations. Each document is read, not just filed: every fact carries the words it came from, every gap is named out loud, and expiry dates are watched so a lapsed certificate never reaches a package with your name on it.
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Six screens, one bid, and not one line on any of them you cannot open and check yourself.
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It never sets a price on its own. It never submits. That is not a promise on a policy page, it is the code: there is no function an agent could call to approve a price, tick a certification, or send anything to anybody. You cannot talk a machine into pressing a button that was never built.
Ask the knowledge base
No. Bidwright holds no formal IT security attestation. SOC 2 Type II runs about nine months and $38,000, so no open deadline can wait for it, and a mandatory requirement is an automatic no-go.
Four bids since January were dropped or downgraded on it. HECVAT Full is free, takes about three weeks, and would have cleared two of those four. It has never been started.
FromSOC 2 Type IIHECVAT FullCertification gap log
A simulation of the Ask panel, built from the product's own screens.
Evidence on every claim
Ask it anything about the bid or your company. Every reply names the RFP section, the file and the requirement it came from, and every source opens. A claim with no citation is treated as a broken reply, not a slightly worse one. You are the one who has to defend it in a debrief, so you never have to take the software's word for it.
The same rule runs through the proposal. A reference you do not have, a certification you do not hold, a figure nobody approved: each one renders as a labeled gap that blocks the package until you deal with it. It is never quietly filled with something that reads well.
Day one
Drop in a folder and walk away. Each file is read on arrival: what it is, what it proves, which gap it fills and the day it expires. A spreadsheet of references becomes thirty rows you can cite one at a time. A scanned certificate is transcribed, and labeled as a transcription so you know what you are leaning on. Nothing is filed without you seeing what was read out of it.
Add material
Files are read on arrival. Nothing can be cited until it has been indexed.
coi-cyber-liability-2026.pdf
ReadCarrier, policy number, a $1M limit and an expiry of March 14, 2027. Answers the cyber liability gap on two open bids.
File inInsurance
customer-references.xlsx
ReadThirty references with contact, contract period and value. Each row is citable on its own.
File inPast performance
certificate-of-formation.pdf
ReadA scan, so it was transcribed and is marked as such. Legal name, file number and the date of formation.
File inCompany facts
0 of 3 indexedCitable now
Next bid, Requirements tab
Cyber liability, $1M per claim
"The Proposer shall carry Cyber Liability insurance of not less than $1,000,000."
coi-cyber-liability-2026.pdf, expires Mar 14, 2027
A simulation of the Add material flow, built from the product's own screens.
Wins and losses
Every outcome feeds the next price. Lose one and the debrief is requested on your behalf, stored word for word, and turned into notes filed where the next draft will trip over them. When the same missing certification keeps knocking you out, the log adds up what it has cost you in dollars, so buying it becomes a decision instead of a regret.
Your data
Your rate card is the most sensitive number in your business. Your documents and portal logins are stored for your account only, are never used to train anything, and are never shared between companies. Credentials are referenced by the screens and never displayed.
Run bids for other companies?
One installation, one company per workspace. Each firm owns its bids, its knowledge base, its templates and its vault, and the wall between them is enforced in three layers of code, not by a naming convention and good intentions.
We bid with it ourselves
Bidwright is the tool its makers use to run their own government bids, on real deadlines, for real money. Every solicitation worked through it hardens the next one, and every screen above is the product, not a concept.
Questions
No. There is no code path for it. The package is staged and checked, the gates are shown with their reasons, and the upload is made by a named person: you. Most portals block automated sessions in any case.
Your insurance certificates, references, rate card, registrations and letterhead. Drop them in as a folder. Each file is read and filed on arrival, and every bid after that is checked against them. One afternoon, once.
Today it reads the solicitation, the addenda and the agency's published answers for the bids you bring to it, and watches them until the award. You still choose which bids to chase. Screening from portals is on the roadmap, and we will say so plainly the day it ships, not before.
No. A missing reference, certification or figure renders as a labeled placeholder that blocks the package until a person resolves it. Every quoted requirement is searched for in the source document before it is allowed on the screen, so a sentence written from memory never reaches your proposal.
Your account. Documents and portal logins are stored for your workspace only, are not shared between companies, and are not used to train anything. Team access is granted role by role and credential by credential.
Joining the list is free and commits you to nothing. Plans go to the waitlist before they go public, and the early access group hears first.
For firms that sell services to state, county, city, school district, transit and housing agencies with one or two people running the bids, and for agencies that run bids on behalf of several companies. Not for large primes with a proposal department, a capture manager and a color team. If you have those, you do not need us.
Why we built it
It was signed, verified and ready to go. The account was not active in time, and the whole thing went in the bin. That week we wrote the first rule into the product: clear the delivery channel before you write a word. Every rule since has come out of a bid we ran ourselves, and the screens on this page are the ones we use on Monday morning.
The Bidwright team, Houston, Texas
Early access
Join the list and we will send one email when your invite is ready. Most firms start with a walkthrough on one of their own live solicitations, so the first thing you see is your own bid, not a demo account.