RFP Docket

What it does

Five jobs, one record.

RFP Docket covers the whole arc of a public bid: finding it, deciding whether it is worth a week, deciding to go, assembling it, and staying eligible to win it. Here is each part in detail.

01

Discover

One feed instead of twenty tabs.

Federal, state, county, city, university and cooperative sources, ingested on a schedule and normalized into one record shape: title, agency, jurisdiction, posted date, deadline, source link. The feed sorts newest first, because a posted date is something every source actually publishes and a deadline is not.

  • Filter to your own state — and a state includes the cities, counties and campuses inside it
  • Keywords that must appear, and keywords that disqualify: -training throws out the rest
  • Set-asides you qualify for, which hides reserved work without hiding unrestricted work
  • A minimum value, where the source publishes one
  • Each person sets their own schedule — their searches, their hour, daily or weekly
  • A content hash per posting, so an amended solicitation is flagged as changed rather than re-listed
  • A filter that cannot be satisfied says so, instead of returning an empty screen
Your Monday digest
9 new matches · 2 closing this week
7:00 am

Districtwide Marketing & Enrollment Campaign Services

Region 4 Education Service Center · Texas · closes Oct 2

Go Watching No-Go…

Website Redesign & WCAG 2.2 Remediation

Dane County · Wisconsin · closes Nov 14

Employer Brand Video Production

UW System · Wisconsin · closes Nov 21

02

Triage

One shared board, seven stages, one owner each.

Watching, Reviewing, Go, Submitted, Awarded, No-Go, Lost. Every card carries an owner, a reminder date, tags and notes. The note explaining why you passed is the one you will want twelve months from now, when the same solicitation reposts and somebody asks whether you looked at it last time.

  • Assignment to a person, visible to the whole team
  • Reminder dates that fire before the deadline, not on it
  • A written record of every no, with the reason
  • A no-go leaves the feed and stays gone, so a bid you rejected is not re-read next week
  • CSV export of the whole pipeline
WATCHING · 6
Statewide Tourism Media Buying
Employer Brand Video Production
Transit Wayfinding Signage
GO · 2
Districtwide Marketing & Enrollment Campaign
DK Dana owns this · 5 of 8 items
Annual Report Design & Print
SUBMITTED · 3
City Plan Engagement
Fleet Wrap Design
No-Go — “bond requirement we can’t meet until FY28. Re-check next cycle.”
03

Assemble

The requirements table on page 34, turned into a checklist.

Every solicitation buries its real requirements in an attachment table halfway through the document. Each pursuit gets a room: the required items as a checklist, an owner and due date per item, the files attached in place, the submission method and address, and a countdown that is not a surprise.

  • Per-item owners and internal due dates, ahead of the real one
  • Addenda logged as they drop, with the checklist updated
  • An internal milestone for sending questions to the buyer, dated ahead of the deadline
  • A completeness count you can read at a glance

Districtwide Marketing & Enrollment Campaign Services

Solicitation 26-04-B · Region 4 ESC · Texas ESBD

11
DAYS LEFT
Required package 5 of 8
  • Attachment A — Execution of Offer signed PDF · Dana
  • Attachment C — Pricing Schedule xlsx · Marcus
  • Certificate of Insurance — $2M general liability pdf · Dana
  • Three client references, K–12 or higher ed due in 3 days
  • Technical narrative, 25 pages unassigned
  • HUB Subcontracting Plan pdf · Dana
SUBMIT VIA
ESBD portal upload
SEND QUESTIONS BY
Sep 16 — milestone
ADDENDA
2 logged
04

Know what you are looking at

Which bids are worth a week, and which work is coming back around.

A team preparing three to six bids a month spends about a week on each, so the first question about any solicitation is whether it is worth one. Two things answer it that a folder of bookmarks never can: what your own history says about the fit, and what is about to come back out for bid. Both are built from records the product already holds — the agencies you have pursued, and the contracts other firms currently hold.

  • A fit score out of 100, built from the agencies you have bid, the ones you have won, and the language of the work you won
  • Every score shows its reasons — an unexplained ranking is not something to stake a week on
  • Contracts with a published end date, surfaced months before they are re-bid, with who holds them now and what they were worth
  • Prior awards for similar work, so you see the incumbent before you commit rather than after
  • It orders your list. It does not predict who wins, and does not pretend to
Districtwide Marketing & Enrollment Campaign Services
Region 4 ESC · Texas · closes Oct 2
Strong fit · 71

Why

  • You have won work from Region 4 ESC before.
  • Same language as work you have won: enrollment, campaign.
  • NAICS 541613 is one of yours.

A way of ordering the list — not a prediction of winning.

Coming up for rebid
Student Recruitment Media Buying

Ends in about 5 months, held by Northgate Media Group · $410K

Ends in 3–6 months — the usual window for a rebid to be drafted
05

Stay eligible

The disqualification you cannot see coming.

Every portal account and certification you hold, with its renewal date and status: Not Started, In Progress, Registered, Renewal Needed, Expired. Anything inside its renewal window floats to the top of the list, and the urgency is computed from the date rather than trusting the status somebody last updated in March.

  • Renewal countdown, sorted most urgent first
  • Category tabs for Federal, State, University, County and Co-op
  • Usernames and login notes on the record
  • No password storage, by design — passwords belong in your password manager
All 14 Federal State University 2 need renewal
SAM.gov
Federal · renewal needed
Oct 9 · 18 days
UW System — Jaggaer
University · in progress
started Sep 8
Wisconsin VendorNet
State · registered
renews Mar 3, 2027
Texas CMBL
State · registered
renews Jan 14, 2027

The honest part

What we deliberately don’t build

We don’t submit your bid. Agencies require submission through their own portal, under an account in your name. Anything that claimed otherwise would either be lying or putting your credentials somewhere they should not be.

We don’t write your proposal. Plenty of tools will generate proposal text. The reason bids fail is usually a missing form or a blown deadline, and that is what this fixes.

We don’t store portal passwords. Holding other companies’ portal credentials would turn every database export into a credential dump and every access-rule mistake into a breach. Usernames and notes, yes. Passwords, no.

We don’t promise you’ll win more. We promise you will see more of what is out there, and that you will be ready on the day.

Tell us what you bid on. We’ll show you what’s open today.

Two minutes to set up your first saved search. No card, no call.