Built for companies that bid public work
Everyone in the chain sees the same tenders and needs a different thing from them. Here is what changes for each job.
Stop reading tenders you were never going to bid
Roofing, civil, paving, concrete, demolition, mechanical, electrical, controls, telecom, security, snow and grounds, environmental, engineering — a public feed does not know which one you are, so it sends you all of it. Screening happens before you open the list, not after.
Nothing needs configuring to get an answer. Tell it what you do, what you don’t, where you are based, how far you will travel and what tickets you hold, and today’s tenders are scored while you watch.
- What you do, what you don't, your tickets, your bonding limit and your travel radius
- A job carrying work from two of your disciplines still reaches you
- Bring in a notice from your own MERX account and it is treated like any other
- Free to set up, and screening stays free — every tender, every reason
A one-person shop and a regional contractor lose the same mornings to the same feed. What changes with size is how much a missed addendum costs.
One company’s profile — a ten-person Winnipeg mechanical shop working within 150 km — scored against every open tender we held on 24 August 2026. A demonstration of the screening on the real feed, not a customer’s account.
The reasoning is the part you can hand to someone else
You are the one who has to read the document and know what is in it. Every answer here expands into the checks behind it, with the sentence quoted, so a decision can be explained by somebody who was not in the room.
BidCaliperOpportunitiesWhat's comingAdd a tenderYour shopDecision recordYOUR COMPANYTwo requirements fail and one needs a decision. Everything else passes. Blocked is still worth reading — this is how you find out which two things stand between you and the work.
An illustration of a tender and its requirement checks. The tender, the clauses and the figures are examples, not a customer's.
Closings, question deadlines, registration windows and mandatory site visits, on one list. The site visit is usually the one that costs work.
What changed, both values, the clause it came from, and what of yours is now out of date. It marks your priced schedule stale rather than re-pricing it behind your back.
Upload a takeoff and it is priced against your own hourly cost rather than an industry average, with provenance on every input.
Assembled from what is on file and explicit about what is missing. It says which addendum it is current through, and it never sends anything.
Addendum tracking and takeoff pricing are part of the Bid and Win plans.
Know what you are chasing and how it is going
Not another dashboard. These answer the questions that are otherwise held in somebody’s head: what are we in the middle of, what are we committed to, and why do we keep losing a particular kind of work.
Considering, submitted, won, lost and no bid, each with a total you can check. One view instead of a spreadsheet somebody maintains.
Outcomes by buyer, by trade, by place and by branch. Where you actually win, rather than where you think you do.
The reasons you declined, and the qualification gaps that blocked you, ranked by how much work each one is costing.
What you are actually committed to across live jobs, against the limit your surety gave you. Never a prediction of what they will approve.
Who has won this buyer's work before, and where else they turn up — read from public award notices.
What a wider radius, a second base or one more certificate would have opened up, run against the real feed.
These six are the Win plan. Everything above them is in every plan, including the free one.
The jobs you turned down are evidence
A COR auditor asks how safety and legislative requirements are considered before work is taken on. Every no-bid here is recorded with the reason, the person and the date, and prints as it stood on the day.
It is the one thing in this product nobody else can reproduce for you after the fact.
BidCaliperOpportunitiesWhat's comingAdd a tenderYour shopDecision recordYOUR COMPANYAn illustration of the decision record. The jobs, names and dates are examples.
Early, and specific about it
BidCaliper has screened the live federal and Québec feeds every six hours since August 2026. It was built for one Winnipeg mechanical contractor and their company profile is what the screening figures on this site are run against.
There is no logo wall here and no testimonial, because there is nothing true to put in one yet. When there is, it will have a name on it.
- Two open feeds read directly, under licences that permit it
- Everything we cannot legally hold, listed and dated
- Every figure on this site carries where it came from
- No invented customers, outcomes or integrations, anywhere
Set your company up and see today's tenders
About three minutes. No card.