Where to find public bids around Salt Lake: the honest comparison
We sell the $99 email, so read this knowing that. Here is what every other way costs, what it covers, and the jobs where you should use one of them instead of us.
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The Bid Sheet
How to use the email, how public work actually gets bid, and what to do when a week goes quiet.
How to read the 6am email in four minutes
It is not a newspaper. It is a work list, and it is meant to be skimmed in the truck.
The closing date is the whole job
Most jobs are not lost on price. They are lost on a date that went by.
How public work actually gets bid in Utah
The shape of it, start to finish, so nothing surprises you at the counter.
Bid or no-bid? Five questions before you spend an evening pricing
A bid costs you an evening. Five losers cost you a week you could have spent working.
What goes in your email, and what we leave out
The whole rulebook, so you can check our work every morning at 6am.
Where public work actually hides in Utah
The state portal is one page. The work is spread across every buyer with a budget.
A quiet week is normal. Here is what to do with it
Every buyer has a cycle. Quiet weeks are for the things you cannot do in a busy one.
How to get on a city's vendor list, and why it pays
Free, takes twenty minutes, and it is the difference between bidding and watching.
Bid bonds, performance bonds and what your surety needs — without the runaround
What the bond actually is, why it takes days instead of an evening, and how to be ready the day the job shows up.
Addenda: the one page that kills otherwise-good bids
The plans change while you price. Miss the change, or the acknowledgment, and your number never even gets read.
The folder every public buyer asks for (build it once)
Registration stalls on paperwork that is never in one place. Twenty minutes now, and you never scramble for it again.
Pricing a job you have never priced before
The first one is a guess. The third one is a number. Here is how to survive the first one without giving a year away.
The morning you lose: what to do with a bad award notice
You will lose more than you win. What separates contractors is what they do the week after.
One email, every weekday at 6am, Mountain time. Every public notice we can place inside your radius, closing dates first.
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