Open for Bid
Every live job — bid date, engineer's estimate, pre-bid meetings — each with the agency's own price history and who history says will be in the room.
One email, Monday at 6 AM. Every open water, sewer and storm-drain job across every city and district in your territory, each one carrying the bid history nobody else keeps.
No card. Nothing to install. Worst case you get one useful Monday email.
Across nine county editions, with history going back more than a decade. It grows every Monday.
A real excerpt. The numbers stay fogged until you subscribe — the numbers are the product.
| Contractor | Bids | Low | Won | vs. low |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paulus Engineering | 15 | 2× | 2 | 29.1% |
| Ferreira Coastal | 15 | 5× | 5 | 20.4% |
| T. E. Roberts | 15 | 5× | 5 | 28.6% |
| GCI Construction | 13 | 6× | 5 | 1.1% |
Every live job — bid date, engineer's estimate, pre-bid meetings — each with the agency's own price history and who history says will be in the room.
Full tabulations from bids that just closed. Every bidder, every amount, and what the low left on the table.
Fresh awards down to the winner's unit prices — the back catalog your estimator wishes existed.
Who bids public work in your county, who wins, and how hungry their number runs. Your watchlist names stay pinned on.
How crowded each agency's jobs run, and where low bids land against the engineer's estimate. Where the soft money is.
Median all-in dollars per foot at the low bid, by lane — sewer, water main, storm drain, recycled water.
One $100K job you'd otherwise have missed pays for roughly fourteen years of the letter. It only has to work once.
Each edition has its own agency registry and its own results database. Riverside and San Bernardino stay closed — that's our own back yard.
Tell us your county and we'll send the current issue, free, numbers unlocked. If it's useful we'll talk about one of the three spots. If not, you got a useful Monday email.
Because the value is the edge. If every bidder in the county reads the same board, nobody has one. Three spots keeps the letter worth paying for — and when we say a county has two spots left, it's literally true.
Public bid portals — PlanetBids agencies, city and district sites, county procurement systems — read every week, plus the bid tabulations and awards those agencies publish. All of it is public record; the work is collecting it, keeping it, and doing the math. A few agencies sit behind vendor logins, and those are listed in every issue so you know to glance at them yourself.
Water main, sewer, storm drain, recycled water, lift and booster stations, wells, and treatment work — wet-utility jobs across cities, water and sanitation districts, flood control, and the county itself.
Different product, not a cheaper one — keep them if you have them. Those platforms tell you a job exists, nationwide, same feed to everyone. The Apparent Low tells you what the room actually bid: every tabulation in your county going back years, the winner's unit prices, and who history says shows up on bid day. That part isn't sold anywhere. And it's capped at three companies per county, so it stays an advantage instead of a group text.
A working pipeline contractor in the Inland Empire who built it for his own Monday mornings first. Our own company shows up on the board like everybody else — and we don't bid the counties we sell.