Help With Government Contract Bidding: Who Does What, and What Stays With You

You have a 60-page bid packet, a Thursday deadline and nobody in the office to sort it out. You can price the work. The sworn statements and portal screens are eating your evenings.

Almost all of that paperwork can be handed off. Three things cannot: the final call on your number, the signature on every certification, and the insurance, bonding and crew it takes to do the job. Paying someone to help never moves those three off your desk.

Here is how I split the rest. Below is every piece of a public bid with a name beside it, then the free help worth calling before you pay anyone, and the pitches to hang up on. Put your own names in the blanks and you will know what kind of help you need.

Who can help me fill out a government bid?

Your office manager, a bid writer or a bid team can prepare most pages; a free APEX Accelerator counselor can explain the requirements and review your work before you send it.

The pages to watch are the ones that need you in person. In PorchRocket’s Bid Control data (October 2026), 23.4% of 295 Texas bid packets included a notarized form or sworn affidavit. That count includes forms named as affidavits, so not every one needs a notary stamp, but every one needs the signer’s time.

References are the other slow item. 30.6% of 615 Texas packets we read for experience requirements asked for client references, and 137 of the 188 that named a number asked for exactly three. Both tasks belong at the front of the schedule: booking the signer and lining up past clients who will pick up the phone.

A writer can type a reference sheet. You still have to pick the clients who know your work. A coordinator can book the notary. The person swearing to the statement still has to show up and sign it.

Bid Control by PorchRocket gives you two ways to split the rest: Bid Builder walks you through the forms yourself, and Bid Team does the paperwork with you. Either way, hire first for the work that is blocking the bid. If you know the scope and your number but cannot get through the forms, buy preparation help. If you cannot tell whether your crew can handle the scope, another person filling boxes will not fix that.

For a first government contract, I would start with a job close to work your company already does. A county office cleaning contract is easy to judge when you already staff offices at night. Save the unfamiliar service for later.

The public bid who-does-what map

Every task on a public bid gets one named person; approvals stay with an authorized decision-maker, and certificates and bonds come only from your insurance and surety agents.

In this table, the preparer means you, your office manager, a bid writer or a consultant whose written scope includes hands-on preparation. APEX advises on the tasks its center supports. Bid Builder guides you through the forms; Bid Team does the paperwork with you. None of those roles comes with signing authority.

Piece of the bid	Who can do the preparation	Who must decide, issue or act	What to settle before the deadline
Find suitable jobs	You, office manager, consultant, APEX bid matching, Bid Builder’s included board, or Bid Team	You approve the jobs to pursue	Trade, service area, crew capacity and contract dates
Read the packet	Preparer; APEX can explain and review; Bid Builder guides; Bid Team plans with you	You confirm the scope and ability to deliver	Required returns, pass/fail requirements and questions
Register on the portal	You, office manager or permitted helper; APEX advises; Bid Builder includes opening your first two portal accounts; Bid Team handles account work	Company account administrator approves access and representations	Recovery email, named users and registration status
Fill the bid form	Preparer, Bid Builder or Bid Team	Authorized company reviewer approves entries	Correct legal bidder name and all required line items
Supply IRS Form W-9	Preparer uses verified company tax information; Bid Builder or Bid Team handles packet preparation	Company verifies tax details and provides required certification	Correct taxpayer name, number and tax classification
Obtain insurance certificate	Preparer or Bid Team sends requirements and tracks receipt	Insurance agent or insurer supplies the certificate; you arrange required coverage	Limits, endorsements, insured entity and delivery date
Obtain bid bond	Preparer or Bid Team coordinates the request	Surety agent arranges issuance; surety approves; company executes required documents	Agency bond form, bid amount and any original document requirement
Prepare notarized affidavit	Preparer, Bid Builder or Bid Team fills factual fields for review	Named signer makes the statement; notary performs the notarial act	Signer availability, identification and accepted format
Assemble references	You supply job history; office manager, writer, Bid Builder or Bid Team organizes it	You verify facts; each client supplies any requested client response	Similar work, contact permission and working phone numbers
Develop the bid price	You or your estimator calculates costs; a qualified consultant can assist; Bid Builder and Bid Team show past winning bids	You make the final call on your number	Quantities, exclusions, alternates and cost of contract obligations
Sign and certify	Preparer marks signature locations; Bid Builder or Bid Team prepares pages	Person with authority required by the company and packet signs	Signature type, title, date and evidence of authority if required
Submit the response	Permitted company user or authorized submission agent under the buyer’s rules	With Bid Team, you sign and send	Final files, portal confirmation or paper delivery receipt
Attend pre-bid meeting	You, estimator, superintendent or other representative the packet permits	Required company representative attends and signs the attendance record	Whether attendance is mandatory and who may represent the bidder
Track addenda	Preparer, Bid Builder’s included board or Bid Team tracks document changes	You approve scope and price effects; authorized signer acknowledges as required	Every addendum reflected in the final response

Give each row one name and a due date. If your office manager requests the COI (certificate of insurance), the same person confirms it arrived and flags anything the agent says it cannot provide.

For what goes inside each attachment, use the page-by-page bid package checklist. This map is about who does the work; the checklist is about what goes in the upload folder.

What must stay with the contractor?

Your company keeps the price, the truth of every certification and the ability to do the work, even when someone else prepares every page.

I book two owner reviews on every bid. The first comes before anyone spends an hour on the packet: can the crew do this job under these terms? The second comes at the end: what does this bid now commit the company to do?

The number and the promised work

You make the final call on your number. A consultant can check an estimate, and a writer can transfer approved unit prices into the buyer’s spreadsheet. Neither should silently change a quantity assumption or add a service promise to make the response sound better.

Say the cleaning scope requires a day porter as well as nightly service. Your helper needs your staffing decision before describing coverage. A polished paragraph promising daytime coverage can become an expensive obligation if the estimate only includes the night crew.

The facts behind a certification

Every certification box is a statement you have to back up. Before marking the company licensed, eligible or free of a listed conflict, find the person who knows the answer. An unanswered box goes on the question list. It never becomes a guessed “no” because the deadline is close.

A false statement can cost more than this bid. On HUD-funded work, the bidder certifications on form HUD-5369-A say a contractor who knowingly gives an erroneous eligibility certification can have the contract terminated for default and be suspended or debarred from HUD and other federal programs.

The capacity to perform

Your company carries the insurance, qualifies for the bonds and supplies the crew. A helper can chase the documents, but the company has to meet the requirement. If the surety will not support the job, I stop preparation until that is fixed.

That split protects your time. You should never retype an address on eight pages. You should always catch a promise to send an emergency crew within a response time your shop cannot meet.

Can my office manager or bid writer legally sign for me?

Only if your company has authorized that person and the solicitation allows it; a contract to prepare bids does not give anyone the right to sign them.

“Only the owner can sign” is too broad. A company officer or another authorized agent often can. Check that person’s authority against the signature block and supply whatever proof the buyer asks for.

HUD-5369, section 1(b) is a clear example: “Bids signed by an agent shall be accompanied by evidence of that agent’s authority.” Your city’s packet may say something different, so read its signature block.

For a small trade shop, I keep signatures with one named decision-maker. Have the helper prepare a signing list that names the signer for each page and separates three kinds of signature: the company’s bid signature, a statement someone must swear to in person, and the bond signature that belongs to the surety’s attorney-in-fact.

Knowing the portal password does not give your office manager authority to certify the company’s eligibility. Approving quantities does not give your estimator authority to sign a contract. Hand out those permissions on purpose.

The IRS Form W-9 instructions are another reason not to copy pages blindly. The form has rules for the taxpayer name and tax classification, and certification instructions that vary by situation. A helper can enter verified information. If you are unsure of your tax classification, settle it with your accountant once, before every packet reuses it.

Never sign a blank page. Read the filled version. If a document needs an original wet signature, build time for that into the schedule. If it accepts an electronic signature, follow the buyer’s stated method.

For signing logistics, use the guide to bid signatures, notaries and authority. With Bid Team, the split is simple: we prepare the paperwork, and you sign and send.

Four kinds of bid help compared

Choose free counseling for questions, a writer for a defined writing task, a consultant for specialist judgment, or managed preparation when nobody has time to own the packet.

Those are four different purchases, even when one provider sells more than one. “Government contracts help” on a website tells you nothing about the files you will get back.

Kind of help	Work to request	Best fit	What you must still arrange
Free counseling, including APEX	Explanation of requirements, registration guidance and an agreed review	Owner learning the process who can do the preparation	Drafting and document follow-up unless the center expressly offers them
Bid writer or proposal writer	Named forms or narrative sections, with revisions and delivery dates	Defined response requiring writing you cannot produce in-house	Any task outside the engagement, including agents and final upload
Government contracting consultant	A written recommendation on target buyers, eligibility, strategy or a specialist issue	Company facing a decision that requires outside expertise	Hands-on packet assembly unless expressly included
Managed bid preparation, including Bid Team	A bid plan, prepared forms, attachment follow-up and a signing handoff	Owner with trade knowledge but no available bid coordinator	Truthful company facts, pricing approval, signatures and submission

Bid Builder fits the owner-managed route. You remain the coordinator, with forms filled from your company file and access to a bid expert by text. That is my first choice for an owner or office manager who can make time to review the packet but wants less repeat typing.

A writer’s scope deserves special attention on an IFB, an invitation for bids. If the buyer wants unit prices and mandatory forms, paying for ten pages of sales language misses the assignment. An RFP, a request for proposals, can require a scored work plan. Read the evaluation criteria before deciding how much writing help to buy.

I would choose Bid Team when nobody will reliably chase the missing attachment on Tuesday morning. That is a staffing gap, and another explanation of procurement rules leaves the attachment missing.

Ask each provider to mark up the who-does-what table before quoting, so you compare the same work. The guide to what bid writers and bid teams cost covers fees. A low quote for writing alone says little about the cost of getting a packet ready to sign.

What free help will an APEX Accelerator provide?

APEX Accelerators, formerly called Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTACs), give free advice on registration, bid decisions and proposal review; most will not write your pages, and services vary by center.

The SBA says APEX Accelerators help businesses selling to federal, state and local governments. A city paving bid is a fair thing to bring to your counselor. You do not have to chase federal work to get help.

Much of the program’s material leans federal. Ohio University’s center lists tools such as SAM.gov, USASpending.gov and the Federal Procurement Data System. So make a precise request: help with this city or school district packet, not an introduction to selling to Washington.

The Ohio University APEX service page offers an initial review after you have read the documents, feedback on setting up and timing the submission, and a final review before you send it. It also draws a hard line: “we do not write any content or review subject matter, we are here to support from a purely advisory standpoint.”

Del Mar College’s APEX Accelerator in Corpus Christi lists confidential advising and electronic bid matching at no charge, plus proposal review and bid document assistance, and links to bid sites for the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County and Corpus Christi ISD. Ask your center which parts of your response it will review.

I would contact APEX before paying someone to explain basic registration. Send the packet with its due date. Write down your questions:

• Does your office serve my business location?
• Can you review this local solicitation before its question deadline?
• Which pages should I draft before our appointment?
• Does your service include filling forms, or advice and review?
• Are there any workshop charges, and when can we meet?

Get the review date confirmed in writing; a request for an appointment is not a promise to review. Free advice can save you from a bad bid, but somebody in your company still has to collect the references.

If you are early in the process, start with APEX. If the packet is due next week and you need someone preparing pages today, buy production help with a delivery date.

What can an SBDC or the purchasing office do?

A Small Business Development Center (SBDC) helps with cash flow, financing and business planning, and the agency’s purchasing office answers questions about its own bid process through the contact the solicitation names.

The SBA’s description of SBDCs covers financial management and help getting access to capital. Those are the right topics if the worry behind your bid is carrying payroll and materials until the first check arrives.

The advising is usually free. Del Mar’s SBDC says its business advising is “no-cost and confidential,” though some workshops carry a nominal fee. Bring a cash forecast to that appointment. Do not expect the advisor to fill out a city pricing sheet.

The purchasing office answers a different set of questions. The City of Austin’s vendor page explains vendor registration, runs Vendor Academy sessions on finding solicitations and submitting offers, and lists a vendor help line (512-974-2018). Start from the buyer’s official site, then follow the contact and communication rules in the live solicitation.

A purchasing agent can tell you where an attachment belongs. The agency is not your estimator, and nobody there will promise your bid passes. Ask a narrow procedural question with a page number.

Here is a sample message to adapt for a school cleaning packet:

Subject: Question on reference attachments, custodial services solicitation

Page 18 requests three client references. The portal has one reference upload field. Should we combine the three reference sheets into one PDF? Please confirm through the solicitation’s published question process. We will follow any issued addendum.

Keep your bid amount out of that message. Send questions before the cutoff and save the official answer with the packet. A friendly phone answer does not change the requirements. HUD-5369, section 2, says information given to a bidder “other than by formal amendment to the solicitation shall not constitute a change to the solicitation,” and many city packets say the same thing.

Insurance, bonds and notaries need their own people

Your insurance agent, surety agent and notary perform jobs a bid preparer cannot replace by filling a PDF, so involve them before the final review.

Send the insurance requirements to your agent with the exact bidder name. Ask the agent to compare your coverage with the requirements, name the endorsements you need and give you a delivery date. A certificate of insurance, usually an ACORD 25, reports coverage. Typing something into the description box does not create it.

The Texas Department of Insurance’s certificate FAQ says a certificate “may not use terms that would alter, amend, or extend coverage that is provided in the insurance policy.” If the city wants additional insured status, the agent fixes the policy. A writer editing the certificate cannot. The insurance requirements guide covers that conversation.

For bonds, the preparer gathers the solicitation and sends the agency’s bond form. Your surety agent gets the approval and issues the bond. Even under the SBA’s guarantee program, the SBA’s surety bond page says the business must “meet the surety company’s credit, capacity, and character requirements.”

A bonding letter from last month is background. Confirm approval for this job, on the agency’s form, before anyone spends an evening on the rest of the packet.

Notaries are their own handoff. Read the signature block to see what each page needs. Do not book a notary for every certification just because a checklist uses the word “affidavit.”

For a traditional notarization, the signer must personally appear before the notary. Texas also allows remote online notarization through a commissioned online notary, but an ordinary video call does not count. The Texas Secretary of State’s notary FAQ explains the difference. Confirm the packet accepts the format you plan to use.

Give the signer time to read the statement. A notary stamp proves who signed, not that the company holds the licenses or experience listed on the page. Your helper should send unclear facts back to you before booking the appointment.

How should a helper handle client references?

A bid helper should organize verified past-job facts and confirm contact details; the contractor must identify qualifying work and approve every claim on the reference sheet.

Three is the number to plan for: 137 of the 188 Texas packets in our records that named a reference count asked for exactly three, and 30.6% of 615 packets asked for references at all. The buyer’s wording decides which jobs qualify.

Keep five or six candidate jobs on file, more than any one packet asks for. A school might want work in occupied buildings. A grounds bid might ask for comparable acreage. Your biggest job is not always the closest match.

Give the helper a record for each job: client organization; contact name, title and contact details; job dates; your scope; and contract value if requested. Identify subcontract work honestly. Do not let a writer describe the whole prime contract as work your crew performed.

Read the experience requirement word for word. “Three similar projects” and “three public agency clients” are different tests. A long-running office cleaning account counts when private clients are accepted. If the packet demands municipal work you do not have, ask the buyer before paying anyone to build a response around a guess.

My reference check would cover four things:

• The project matches the requested service and time period.
• The named contact knows the work and agrees to be contacted.
• Phone and email details still reach that person.
• Any client questionnaire has its own responsible person and due date.

Call references to confirm facts, never to coach praise. If a questionnaire has to go straight from the client to the buyer, your helper tracks it and never fills in the client’s evaluation.

The first reference file takes effort. After that, every packet starts with verified records instead of a dig through old invoices. Refresh the contact details before each reuse. The guide to government contract references covers how to present private work honestly.

Is a government contracting consultant worth it?

Yes, when it takes a defined workload off you or brings judgment your company lacks, and you can inspect what it produced before you sign; a broad retainer to “help with government contracts” usually is not.

I would not buy a big consulting engagement because a packet looks thick. Read the return requirements first. A long specification can call for a short response. The scope may need your estimator while the attachments need an organized office person.

Run a simple time budget. Say a paving owner figures 11 hours to manage a packet alone, and four hours of estimating and review with preparation help. That frees seven hours. If the owner values that time at $87 an hour, the help is worth about 7 × $87 = $609 per packet to that owner, which is the number to hold a written quote against.

Count the coordination left over. If the provider sends a draft but leaves you to request the insurance certificate, chase the agent and check every attachment against the right portal field, you still own a big share of the work. Ask for those tasks by name.

For occasional bids, I would choose Bid Builder if guided forms and a reusable company file solve the problem. For an owner whose evenings already go to estimating, Bid Team supplies the missing preparation hours. Neither replaces your trade judgment.

A specialist consultant makes sense for one defined question, such as sizing up a new buying market or an unfamiliar scoring method. A legal question goes to an attorney.

The first bids are the slow ones. Log the owner hours each packet took and which documents had to be built from scratch. Judge any help partly on what you can reuse next time, win or lose.

How do I check a bid-help company for scams?

Hang up on guaranteed awards and inside-influence pitches; before trusting anyone with your packet, get a written scope, keep your accounts in your name and check their award claims yourself.

I use the same screen for a freelancer, a consultant or a monthly service. An honest provider can explain its work without hinting that it controls the buyer’s decision.

• No guaranteed wins. A provider can commit to named preparation tasks and dates. It cannot promise the agency’s award.
• No secret influence. Reject any pitch based on private access to the purchasing agent or a claim that competition is only a formality.
• No percentage of the contract. Pay for defined work, never a cut of the award. Ask about every fee tied to winning.
• Month to month. For ongoing help, choose month-to-month service with the cancellation process in writing. A one-off project needs an equally clear end date.
• Awards you can check. Ask for the agency, solicitation number and winning bidder. Find the bid tab, then the award notice or board vote. Being low on a bid tab alone does not prove an award.
• A named signer and sender. The provider should say plainly who signs and who submits. Calling a service “done for you” never lets anyone certify facts they do not know.
• Company control of accounts. Your business should retain recovery access and its bid records. Use permitted user roles rather than shared credentials.
• No invented qualifications. Walk away if someone offers borrowed references, false staffing claims or a signature before the page is filled.

Use the guide to finding who won a public bid to check claimed results. Then call the contractor who won and ask what the helper did and whether deadlines were met.

Watch for registration fees. GSA’s warning about misleading marketing says “Registration in SAM.gov is always free” and the government will never ask you to pay to register or renew. A company charging to help is selling its labor, not a government fee. The same notice says GSA policy prohibits using another person’s email and password to get into SAM.gov, so never hand over yours.

Hang up on strangers who call claiming to represent the city. Look up the official contact yourself. If you already gave a caller access, take the account back, remove unknown users and keep the messages. GSA points scam victims to the FTC and, for fraudulent email, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Do I have to disclose paying someone to help obtain the contract?

Yes, when the packet asks: answer its exact questions about paid help or retained agents truthfully, and make any required disclosure before you sign.

HUD-funded packets are the common example. Form HUD-5369-A, section 2, has the bidder check whether it “has, has not employed or retained any person or company to solicit or obtain this contract” and whether it paid that person a fee “contingent upon or resulting from the award.” Full-time employees working only for the bidder are excepted. A yes on either line requires “an immediate and full written disclosure” to the contracting officer. Paying a flat fee answers the second question, not the first.

On federal contracts, FAR 52.203-5 bars contingent fees for soliciting or obtaining the contract, with an exception for bona fide employees and established selling agencies. A city solicitation may use its own wording or none at all, so read the provisions in your packet.

My rule is to pay for preparation work, never a percentage of the award, and to disclose the relationship whenever asked. Those are two separate decisions.

Describe the helper’s work accurately: preparation, research or whatever it was. Calling bid preparation “typing” does not change what was done.

If you cannot tell how a disclosure question applies to what you bought, send the exact wording and the relevant contract terms to the buyer’s named contact before the question deadline. Do not let your preparer pick the convenient answer. If the answer turns on a legal reading, ask a lawyer.

Check, too, whether the response asks about organizational conflicts or relationships with agency staff. The person preparing the packet cannot know every relationship inside your company. Ask the people who do, and save their answers with the bid file.

A ten-day handoff for a school cleaning bid

Ten business days is enough if outside documents are requested on day 2, the owner reviews on days 6 and 7, and submission gets its own day instead of a last-minute upload.

Say you run an eight-person cleaning company in Corpus Christi. A school district custodial packet is due in ten business days. You have a working estimate and nobody owns the paperwork yet. Here is how I would split it.

Timing	Helper’s work	Owner or other person’s work	Evidence to save
Day 1	Read return requirements and build the task list	Owner approves pursuit and assigns the estimator	Bid plan with the official deadline
Days 2 to 3	Request COI review, organize references and check portal access	Agent checks coverage; owner confirms staffing and reference choices	Agent’s response and verified job records
Days 3 to 5	Prepare forms and draft the work plan	Allowed representative attends any required walk; owner resolves scope questions	Attendance record and official question responses
Days 6 to 7	Assemble attachments and update for posted changes	Owner reviews certifications and approves the number	Marked review copy and written corrections
Day 8	Prepare the signing set and submission instructions	Authorized signer signs; notary performs any required act	Signed files and final attachment list
Day 9	Check the prepared files against portal requirements	Owner submits if ready and saves confirmation	Submission receipt and submitted copies
Day 10	Monitor for further changes under the agreed plan	Owner handles any required revision before the official cutoff	Final submission status

Suppose the packet has a mandatory walk on day 3. A remote paperwork helper can put it on the calendar, but someone from your company has to be there. If you miss it and the packet disqualifies anyone absent, stop. Polishing the rest wastes the week.

The helper also needs a rule for open items: “waiting on owner” when you owe the facts, “waiting on agent” when a document has been requested, “ready for review” when it can go into the signing set. Guessed answers never go on the ready list.

Before signing, compare the service narrative to the estimate. Does the number cover the promised day porter? Is summer floor care included at the frequency the narrative describes? The writer should never settle those by picking the nicer-sounding promise.

Sending a day early leaves time for a file error. Keep watching for addenda afterward and follow the buyer’s process for revisions. Save the submitted version. The sealed-bid submission guide covers delivery when the packet wants paper instead of a portal upload.

What to send before the first bid-help call

Send the solicitation link, the deadline and your biggest open question; hold the tax and financial records until the scope is agreed and you have a secure way to send them.

A 15-minute call is enough to tell whether you need a form tool, production help or a specialist. It cannot replace reading the packet. If there is a mandatory meeting tomorrow, say so before anything else.

I would bring this short intake:

• Trade, service area and the kinds of jobs your crew already performs.
• Solicitation number, official link, due date and time zone.
• Any required site visit and the deadline for questions.
• Your current progress, including portal registration and estimating status.
• The person who will approve the number and sign.
• Any known obstacle, such as a missing reference or unconfirmed bond.

Once the work is agreed, gather the company W-9, licenses, current insurance certificate and bonding agent’s contact, plus reference records and past-job descriptions. Keep your tax ID and financial records out of a first inquiry email. Send them the agreed secure way.

Ask for a written plan. Besides the preparation dates and what you owe, it should say who acts next when an agent fails to send a document, an addendum changes the scope or another bid lands on the same deadline. Settle those cases before you hire.

Keep the bid records in your company’s hands. If you change providers, you still need the signed response with its receipt, plus any bid tab or award notice you collect later.

That file makes the next call shorter. You talk about what changed in the new packet instead of rebuilding your legal name, references and signing authority from scratch. Check old answers before reusing them; insurance dates and client phone numbers go stale even when the address stays the same.

How Bid Control divides the work with your company

Bid Builder lets you run your own packets with the forms filled from your company file; Bid Team hands the preparation to my team on dates we agree, while your number and your signature stay with you.

Start with a free 15-minute call with Rafael about your trade and the jobs you want. Bring an open packet if you have one. I take calls every day, 8 AM to 6 PM Central, in English or Spanish.

Here is how Bid Team splits the work on the map above:

1. Pick jobs together. With Bid Team, we help you decide which opportunities fit your crew and are worth preparing. Your board keeps the bid papers and due dates together, with addenda alongside the job.
2. Plan the bid. My team plans each response with you and sets the dates. We work bids one at a time, so each packet gets its own slot in the schedule.
3. Build your company file. Your Bid Passport holds the W-9, insurance certificate, licenses, bonding letter, references, past jobs and signatures. Forms fill from it, so the Texas packets that want references (30.6% in our records) or an affidavit or notarized form (23.4%) start from records you already checked.
4. Do the paperwork. We handle the forms, addenda, notary pages, portal accounts and deadlines, and we chase the items that need your insurance agent, surety agent or signer.
5. Review the number. We show you what past winners bid on similar work. You check the scope and costs and make the final call on your number.
6. Sign and send. You review the finished packet, sign it and submit it. The company file is ready for the next bid, and invoice reminders help you get paid on the work you win.

Bid Team is a flat monthly membership with as many bids as you want, worked one at a time on dates we agree, monthly with no contract, cancel any time. If you would rather prepare bids yourself, Bid Builder walks you through every form, fills it from your company file, lets you text a bid expert when you are stuck and opens your first two bid-site accounts for you.

The first packet is the slow one, and every verified reference and current certificate makes the next one faster. Keep your hands on the crew and the number, and give the paperwork to someone with a name and a deadline.