BidCatch Is Officially Live: Here's What We've Been Building

It's been a few weeks since you've heard from us. We weren't idle — we were building. For more than a month we've been turning BidCatch from a daily bid feed into a complete platform for small businesses that sell to the government. Today it's officially live, and we're proud of it.

Finding the bid is only half the job

Every small contractor we talk to says the same thing: finding the bid is the easy part. The hard part is everything around it. Who else is going after this? Who held the contract last time, and when does it end? Is it set aside for a business like mine? Who do I actually call? The big primes pay for expensive intelligence tools to answer those questions. Small businesses usually can't. BidCatch is built to close that gap.

Search the way you talk

The search box now understands plain English. Type this into bid search:

civil engineering in Texas closing in 30 days

BidCatch reads it as three things — Texas, a deadline within 30 days, and the keywords "civil engineering" — and applies them for you. When we ran that exact search, the top result was a Texas solicitation for Professional Engineering Services – Civil.

Every filter it picks up shows as a chip you can remove with one click. If it ever reads something you didn't mean, one link runs your words as plain keywords instead. Type a company name like "Texas Instruments" and it knows that's a company, not a state. Set-asides work too: "SDVOSB engineering closing in 30 days" filters to service-disabled veteran-owned set-asides automatically.

Set-asides, everywhere

8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB and EDWOSB, small disadvantaged business, state and local programs, and unrestricted — filter by set-aside on open bids, on past awards, and in the app, in one click.

Your recompete pipeline

Contracts end, and when they do they get re-bid. BidCatch tracks nearly 240,000 federal contracts with end dates ahead, by agency and by month, so you can start positioning before the solicitation is even posted. Browse them free on the Recompete Radar.

Know who you're up against

Look up any company that wins government work: who they win with, who they subcontract to, and how their mix of work is shifting over time. Or go the other way — search by industry or NAICS code and see exactly who is winning that work.

The contact, right on the bid

Federal bids now show the contracting officer's contact details right on the listing, so you don't have to dig for them.

Connect your own AI assistant

If you use an AI assistant that supports Model Context Protocol, you can now connect it to your BidCatch account:

• Create a key in Settings → Assistant keys in the app.
• Paste it into your assistant.
• Ask things like "What new bids match my codes this week?" or "Which of my tracked bids close in the next 10 days?"

Keys are read-only by default: your assistant can see your pursuits, saved searches, inbox and deadlines, but can't change anything. If you want it to track bids or update a pursuit for you, you can allow that when you create the key. Each key sees only your own workspace, expires automatically within 90 days, and can be revoked with one click. We store only a scrambled copy of the key, never the key itself.

Install it like an app

BidCatch installs straight from your browser — no app store, no download. Sign in, open bidcatch.co/app, then:

• Mac (Safari): File → Add to Dock
• Mac or PC (Chrome): click the install icon in the address bar, then Install
• PC (Edge): ⋯ menu → Apps → Install this site as an app
• iPhone or iPad: Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen
• Android: Chrome ⋮ menu → Install app

You get a BidCatch icon in your Dock, Start menu or home screen. It opens in its own window, goes straight to your dashboard, and is always the latest version.

Honest numbers, real data

Nearly 1.5 million bids and awards are searchable on this site — over 740,000 bids and over 740,000 federal awards — alongside 80,000+ company profiles, agency forecasts and protest rulings. They come from 100+ federal, state and local sources, refreshed every night, on top of more than 90 GB of contracting history: award versions, subcontracts and contract lineage.

We're strict about accuracy. Some contracts report a theoretical ceiling in the billions or even trillions; when there is no real current value, we say "No current value reported" instead of showing you an inflated number.

Coming soon

• AI bid summaries — a short, plain-English summary of what a solicitation actually asks for.
• Change alerts — a note when a bid you're tracking changes its deadline or adds an amendment.

Try it

Searching bids and awards on bidcatch.co is free, no account needed. The full app is $49.99 a month, or $499 a year (17% cheaper), with a 14-day trial. Small businesses keep this country running. We built BidCatch so they can compete with the same information the big players have.