We Opened the Catalog: Search 50,000+ Government Bids, Free

Since the day we switched it on, our machine has scanned federal, state, and local bid boards every night and filtered the haul for paying subscribers. Today we're opening the catalog itself: every bid it finds — open or past — is now searchable on this site. No account, no paywall, no email required.

Try it right now

Type a trade — "fiber optic," "paving," "janitorial," "HVAC" — and filter by state or by buyer level: federal, state, or local. Every result shows the agency, the location, the posted date, and the deadline, with a link straight to the official posting on the government's own portal. If you want to see what's already closed, uncheck "open bids only" and the archive opens up too.

Everything you see is public information — it always was. The government posts these bids on public boards because it wants bidders. What's hard has never been permission; it's that the bids are scattered across hundreds of boards, each with its own search box and its own vocabulary. Our machine does the gathering every night. Now the gathering is yours to search.

Why give it away?

Because searching and subscribing are different jobs. A search box shows you what exists when you remember to look. That's genuinely useful — for research, for pricing a job, for finding out who buys what you sell. But contracts are won on timing, and nobody remembers to search every morning across a dozen possible keywords.

That's the part that stays paid. The daily digest doesn't wait for you to remember: it watches 100+ federal, state, and local sources every night, matches the haul to your exact codes and states, and puts one short email in your inbox by 6 AM. The search shows you the ocean. The digest nets your fish.

Something in between: the free weekly scan

On every search and every bid page you'll find a small box: leave your email, and one short message every Sunday brings you the new bids matching that search. Free forever, no account, unsubscribe anytime. Fair warning, though — the weekly scan has a built-in lesson. Some of those Sunday bids were posted on Monday, and their deadlines have been bleeding all week. When one you wanted closes before your sample arrives, you'll understand exactly what the daily digest is for.

It only gets deeper from here

The archive grows every single night and nothing is ever removed — every day the machine runs, the searchable history reaches one day further back. What you can search today is the beginning of a library that compounds: open bids now, years of past bids soon enough, all of it free to look through.

So go search your trade. See what's out there. And when you find a bid you wish you'd seen three days earlier — that's the moment the morning email is built for.