Bid Desk
The federal bids worth your week
Writing the proposal was never the hard part. The hard part is that most of what the government posts cannot be won by a company your size, and finding that out one notice at a time is what eats the week.
In one recent thirty day window, SAM.gov posted 996 notices. Sixteen of them were in our industry codes. The rest were hex nuts, direct current motors, hull cleaning, hangar leases and pressure vessels. A person reading that list to find the sixteen has spent the week, and the sixteen still have to be read properly before any of them is worth a proposal.
What it does
Asks for your codes, not everything
Every notice posted against each NAICS code you actually hold, pulled one code at a time so nothing inside a code is lost and the flood is.
Applies your hard limits automatically
No clearance, no SCIF, no bonding, no CMMC Level 2, no round the clock staffing: whatever you genuinely cannot promise becomes an automatic no, checked against the whole solicitation and its attachments rather than the summary paragraph.
Reads the rest and says no with a reason
The limits catch what can be written as a rule. A reading catches what cannot: a research announcement dressed as a services buy, a requirement that quietly assumes fifteen people, work that is adjacent to what you do but not what you do.
Drafts what survives, grounded in evidence
A capability statement or a priced proposal, built only from facts you have supplied. Anything the draft claims that your evidence does not support is cut before you see it, and what was cut is shown to you.
Lands in your inbox, ready to submit
Each finished proposal is emailed to you with the notice, the review verdict and the price check. You read it, change what you want, and submit it yourself through your own portal accounts. Your name, your login, your submission.
The part nobody sells you
A bid desk that says yes to everything is worse than no bid desk, because it turns a wasted week into a wasted week plus a bad submission with your name on it. The value is in the refusals, and a refusal is only useful if it comes with a reason you can check. Real ones from a recent week:
- A warehousing sources sought. Needs 50,000 square feet within twenty miles of the base, plus forklifts and thirty staff on site.
- A mobile device management RFI. Wants a vendor who already owns a FedRAMP authorised platform with 3,500 licences. We do not sell one.
- A closeout support contract. Set aside for 8(a), which we are not.
- An office wide research announcement. Buys research, not services, and is written for universities and laboratories.
- A software subscription renewal. A reseller transaction for a product we do not resell.
Every one of those is a proposal somebody else will write and lose. Reading them takes about a cent each.
What it will not do
It will not invent past performance you do not have, promise a clearance you do not hold, or submit anything on your behalf. Submission is always yours. If your company has no federal contracts yet, its drafts will say so in plain words, because a contracting officer can check and the first lie is the last bid.
Who it is for
Small companies with real capability and no capture team: the one to ten person shop that can do the work but cannot afford to lose a week a month deciding what to bid. It runs for Kibey Innovations every week. We set it up and run it for other companies too.
See the opportunities first
The weekly digest carries the opportunities worth a small contractor's time, scored and filtered. It is the same scan the bid desk runs from.
Get the weekly digestWant it run for your company? Email Joshua Kibe. Kibey Innovations is a veteran owned small business in Springboro, Ohio.