Find the public tenders your company can actually win.
BidCaliper reads every federal and Québec public tender and checks each one against your trades, certificates, bonding and travel radius — then tells you which ones fit, and why.
Free to set up, and it stays free. No card.
BidCaliperOpportunitiesWhat's comingYour shopDecision recordYOUR COMPANYClear to bid — 1
A MUNICIPAL WATER UTILITY · BRANDON, MB · CLOSES IN 11 DAYS
Worth a look — 39
A SCHOOL DIVISION · THE NOTICE DOES NOT SAY WHERE THE WORK IS
A HEALTH AUTHORITY · BOND SET AS A PERCENTAGE, NO VALUE PUBLISHED
Not open to you — 2,073, each with a reason
SCOPE POINTS TO ROOFING, WHICH YOU DON'T LIST
MANITOBA WORK OVER $100,000 NEEDS A COR — YOU HOLD NEITHER
“Bidders shall hold a valid Certificate of Recognition (COR) or SECOR issued by a recognised certifying partner.”Instructions to bidders, cl. 4.2
The problem
Most of the feed was never work you could bid
A tender feed doesn’t know your trades, how far you travel, or what your surety will bond — so it sends you everything. Someone spends the morning finding the few that are real.
2,073
not open to you, each with a reason
39
worth a look
1
clear to bid today
How this was measured
One company profile — a ten-person Winnipeg mechanical shop — scored by the live screening engine against every open tender held on 24 August 2026. An example of what the screening does, not a customer’s account.
Distance is not a province. Kenora is in Ontario and closer to your yard than Dauphin, which isn’t. BidCaliper measures driving distance from your own base, so a service area that crosses a border works properly.
Qualification
Every answer shows the clause it came from
Know why before your estimator spends an hour reading it.
BidCaliperOpportunitiesWhat's comingYour shopDecision recordYOUR COMPANY“Bidders shall hold a valid Certificate of Recognition (COR) or SECOR issued by a recognised certifying partner.”Instructions to bidders, cl. 4.2
Addendums
Know what changed, and what it means for your bid
Acknowledge two of three addendums and the bid is thrown out on compliance — and nobody tells you which one you missed.
What the tender said
50% of contract value
Performance bond. Inside your surety’s single-job limit, so it passed.
Addendum 2 changed it
100% of contract value
Both values, the clause it came from, and which earlier addendum it supersedes.
What it changes in your bid
Check with your surety before you bid
Addendum 2 is read but not acknowledged, and your priced schedule was built on the drawing it replaced. Both are marked out of date. Nothing is re-priced for you.
Cost and margin
What an hour of your crew actually costs
BidCaliper uses your wages, burden, overhead and productive hours to work out what an hour of your crew really costs. That gives you a real number to price opportunities against — not an industry average.
How the cost model works →Cost per productive hour
What it was built from
Utilization is still on a benchmark default. Telling us how much of a paid week your crew actually bills would move this number more than any other answer.
An example. Yours is built from your own figures.
Preparing the bid
Assembled from what you already have on file
Documents, requirements, addendums and your priced schedule in one place — and honest about what is missing. It never sends anything. You sign and send.
Bid workspace
- Documents
- Requirements
- Addendums
- Priced schedule
- Notes
- History
Current through addendum 1. Two items outstanding, and the priced schedule was built on drawing revision A.
It ends as paper somebody signs
Every requirement, document and addendum lands in one package — and you are the one who submits it.
Your bid history
See what you’re bidding, what you’ve won, what you’ve lost, and why
Every opportunity you are considering, submitted, won, lost or passed on — with who decided, when, and the reason they gave.
Considering
6
Boiler replacement — pump house No. 4
Submitted
3
Awaiting award. Bid validity 60 days.
Won
2
Priced at a 14% margin against our own hourly cost.
Lost
4
Submitted at $214,000. Awarded lower.
No bid
11
Performance bond above our single-job limit.
Illustrative counts. Records are read back as stored rather than recalculated — which also makes your no-bids the evidence a COR auditor asks for.
Coverage
What BidCaliper covers today
Most tools in this category won’t tell you what they miss.
| Where the work is | Read automatically | You can bring it in | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal — anywhere in Canada | Yes | — | CanadaBuys, under the Open Government Licence. |
| Québec — every public body | Yes | — | SEAO, under Creative Commons Attribution. |
| Manitoba — province, infrastructure, City of Winnipeg | No | Yes | MERX terms forbid reproducing any of it. Paste in a notice from your own account and it is checked like any other. |
| British Columbia | No | Yes | BC Bid excludes automated readers. We follow that. |
| Alberta | No | Yes | Alberta Purchasing Connection excludes automated readers. |
| Ontario, Saskatchewan, Atlantic, the territories | No | Yes | Not yet researched. No claim is made either way. |
CanadaBuys, under the Open Government Licence.
SEAO, under Creative Commons Attribution.
MERX terms forbid reproducing any of it. Paste in a notice from your own account and it is checked like any other.
BC Bid excludes automated readers. We follow that.
Alberta Purchasing Connection excludes automated readers.
Not yet researched. No claim is made either way.
Federal notices cover work in every province, so a Manitoba job bought federally does reach you. What is missing is provincial and municipal buying outside Québec.
Plans
One job you’d have missed pays for a year
Setting up is free and stays free — every tender screened, every answer with its reasons, and your first bid package.
Watch
Find the right opportunities.
$149 /month
- Every federal and Québec tender, every six hours
- Checked against your trades, tickets, bonding and radius
- Every answer with its clause
- Unlimited bid packages
Bid
Prepare and keep the bid current.
$449 /month
- Everything in Watch
- Addendums tracked — what changed and what it made out of date
- Upload a takeoff and price it against your own costs
Win
Manage your bidding operation.
$949 /month
- Everything in Bid
- Pipeline, win/loss performance, bonding exposure
- Buyer and competitor history from past awards
- More than one base, or more than one company
All prices in Canadian dollars, per month. Cancel and you keep access to the end of the month you have paid for.
Compare the plans in full →See it against your own company
Set up your trades, your base and your crew. Today’s live tenders get scored while you watch.