Federal Biddingby Guspora
Find federal work on SAM.gov. Draft the bid against your own pricing rules. Hand your team a review-complete packet. You sign; you submit. Bid does the work that gets you there.
Three jobs, one platform
Bid finds the work, drafts the offer, and hands you a packet ready for your signature. It doesn’t pretend to be the contractor in front of the contracting officer — that’s your seat.
Find federal work
Bid watches SAM.gov in the background and scores every new solicitation against the capability profile you keep in the platform. The score weighs NAICS fit, set-aside eligibility, place of performance against your service area, dollar band against your shop size, and incumbent history when the agency publishes it. You see opportunities you can actually win — and every one of them tells you why it scored where it did, in plain English. Filter by sub-agency, response deadline, or solicitation type when you need to narrow further.
Draft the bid
Accept an opportunity and Bid breaks the SOW, the PWS, and the Section L/M instructions into discrete requirements. Each one gets a draft response, a suggested price from your own rules, and a paragraph of narrative you can accept, edit, or rewrite. Past-performance entries pull from closed Guspora Service work orders when the contract type allows. Every claim points back to a record you can defend — you’re never starting from a blank page, and you’re never signing off on language you can’t stand behind.
Hand off the packet
You submit, not us. That’s the design. Bid hands you a review-complete packet in the formats the agency expects — PDF, DOCX, the cost workbook, the attachments index — plus a step-by-step checklist for the agency portal, whether that’s SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, DIBBS, GSA eBuy, or FEMA Industry Liaison. Your signature, your upload, your name on the offer.
Small-business federal contractors
Socioeconomic categories and the SBA programs behind them are real inputs into how Bid scores opportunities — not labels we paste on the page.
Veteran-owned small-business contractors
Set-aside filters and profile fields help you review opportunities that match the certifications and registrations you actually hold. Bid drafts from your verified profile, not from assumptions.
8(a) Business Development participants
Sole-source 8(a) awards and competitive 8(a) set-asides are tagged distinctly so you can prioritize the program-eligible work that justifies the time you spent getting certified. Graduation-date awareness keeps the filter honest as your participation window closes.
Women-Owned and Economically Disadvantaged WOSB
WOSB Federal Contracting Program set-asides are filtered by the NAICS codes that SBA actually authorizes for the program, not the full WOSB-eligible universe, so you do not waste a week on a solicitation the agency cannot legally award to you.
Veteran-Owned Small Business
For VA solicitations issued under the Vets First Contracting Program, Bid can surface relevant veteran-owned program fields from the capability profile you maintain.
Generic small-business set-aside contractors
If you are a small business under your primary NAICS without a socioeconomic designation, Bid still works. The capability profile uses SBA size standards and revenue / employee tests to keep you out of full-and-open competitions you would lose on price alone.
GSA Multiple Award Schedule holders
For Schedule holders, Bid identifies eBuy RFQs that map to your awarded SINs and brings your GSA Advantage pricing in as the starting point for the cost build-up. It will not draft against SINs you do not hold; that is a guardrail, not an oversight.
A real snapshot of your shop
The capability profile is the spine of every score, every draft, every cost narrative. Build it once, keep it current, and the rest of the platform compounds on top of it.
NAICS codes
Primary plus secondary NAICS, with the size standard SBA publishes for each one. Bid uses the size standard at the solicitation NAICS, not your primary, which is how the contracting officer will evaluate you.
Certifications
Small-business, veteran-owned, 8(a), WOSB / EDWOSB, HUBZone, and other certification fields when you enter and maintain them. Expiration dates are tracked and surfaced before they bite.
Past performance
Federal, state, and commercial contracts you have completed, including dollar value, period of performance, place of performance, and a contracting officer or COR reference where one exists. Closed Guspora Service work orders are eligible candidates here when the contract type allows it.
Geographic reach
Service area defined by state, region, or specific installations. Bid filters place-of-performance against this so you do not chase a Hawaii FEMA award from a Kentucky shop unless you have a credible mobilization plan.
Capacity and bonding
Crew count, equipment list, bonding capacity (single and aggregate), and named teaming partners. The dollar-value band on each solicitation is checked against this so you stop seeing $40M MATOCs you cannot bond.
Entity identifiers
UEI, SAM.gov registration status and renewal date, and representation/certification profile fields. Bid will not draft into a solicitation while your SAM registration is expired; it tells you to renew first.
The profile is yours. Export it, share it with a teaming partner, hand it to your accountant for indirect-rate work — Bid won’t hold your capability data hostage.
From solicitation to review-complete packet
Seven steps. Every one of them is auditable. None of them put a signature on a federal offer without your hand on the pen.
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Solicitation arrives
Bid pulls the new solicitation from SAM.gov, downloads every attachment, and parses Sections L (instructions) and M (evaluation factors) into a structured outline before any human looks at it.
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Capability scoring
The opportunity is scored against your capability profile across NAICS fit, set-aside eligibility, place of performance, dollar band, response window, and incumbent history. You get a fit score with a written explanation, not a black-box number.
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Requirement extraction
Bid breaks the SOW / PWS into discrete requirements and tags each one with the evaluation factor it ladders into. Mandatory pass-fail items are flagged separately from rated criteria so you can triage the no-bid decision before drafting starts.
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Price suggestion
For each priced line, Bid pulls the suggested price from your pricing rules — labor rate by skill, parts markup, equipment day rate, overhead, G&A, fee. The suggestion is annotated with which rule fired and what the federal cost-proposal exhibit will need to support it.
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Narrative drafting
Technical approach, management approach, past performance, and small-business participation narratives are drafted from your profile and prior responses. Every paragraph is sourced; nothing is fabricated; every claim points to a record you can defend in a debrief.
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Contractor review
You walk the draft section by section, accepting or rewriting paragraphs, adjusting prices, and pulling in the substantiation files Bid suggested. Nothing leaves this step until the human in the chair signs off.
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Packet ready
Bid assembles the final packet in the formats the agency demands — SF1449, cost workbook, technical volume, past-performance volume, representations, attachments index — and produces the upload checklist for the agency portal. You submit; Bid does not.
Cost build-up the way the government reads it
Federal cost proposals aren’t retail price lists. Bid takes your pricing rules and assembles a cost narrative the contracting officer can evaluate for reasonableness — not one they have to call you to decipher.
Direct labor
Labor rate by skill code from your pricing rules, with the wrap (fringe, overhead) called out separately the way DCAA-style cost proposals expect. Service Contract Act wage determinations are surfaced when the solicitation cites one so your direct rate at minimum meets the WD.
Materials and parts
Parts pricing flows from the same catalogs and markup rules your Guspora Service estimates already use, so the bid is consistent with what your shop actually charges. Bid flags items that need a vendor quote attached as substantiation.
Equipment and ODCs
Owned equipment uses your day-rate table; rented equipment carries a quote line. Other Direct Costs (travel, per diem, shipping) follow JTR / GSA per diem when the solicitation says they must.
Indirect rates
Overhead and G&A wraps come from your indirect-rate setup. If you do not have approved provisional rates, Bid uses your modeled rates and clearly labels them as such on the cost narrative so a contracting officer is not surprised.
Fee / margin
Profit / fee is your call. Bid suggests a band based on contract type (FFP vs. T&M vs. cost-reimbursable) and historic awards in the NAICS, but the number you bid is the number you set.
Cost narrative
Every priced element ties back to a basis-of-estimate paragraph. That is what the contracting officer reads when they evaluate price reasonableness, and it is what your DCAA / agency auditor will want if the contract is later audited.
A two-year base-housing inspection IDIQ, one task order at $480k. Bid pulls your inspector labor rate, applies the wage determination floor where it is higher, wraps the SCA fringe, layers your overhead and G&A, and adds the fee band you set for FFP task orders. The resulting cost workbook ties every line to a basis of estimate. The narrative volume references the same line numbers. If the contracting officer asks how you priced item 0003AA, the answer is in the workbook and in the narrative, and they match.
Your work history, evaluated honestly
Past performance is half of how the government picks a winner. Bid surfaces the engagements that are actually relevant — and refuses to dress up the ones that aren’t.
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Closed work orders in Guspora Service are eligible past-performance candidates when the contract type and customer allow disclosure. The platform respects NDAs and customer-confidentiality flags set at the work-order level.
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For each candidate engagement, Bid surfaces customer name, period of performance, dollar value, scope summary, and a reference contact when one is on file. You decide which engagements go in the volume; the platform never publishes a customer reference without your explicit acceptance.
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Federal CPARS records you have ingested are matched against the candidate set so a strong CPARS rating travels with the engagement into the past-performance volume.
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Relevance to the current solicitation is scored, not assumed. A tower-service job for a private telecom is not pitched as relevant past performance for a base-housing maintenance solicitation, even if the dollar value is similar.
What Bid won’t do — on purpose
Federal procurement attracts marketing claims that don’t survive contact with a contracting officer. Here’s where Bid intentionally stays out of the way.
Your name on every submission. Always.
Bid hands you a review-complete packet. You sign and you upload. We won’t represent you to a contracting officer — not because we couldn’t, but because that line is where Bid stops on purpose.
AI drafts. You decide.
No paragraph leaves the draft without your accept / edit / reject. Bid is not a "click to generate, click to submit" black box, and the workflow is built so it can’t become one.
Federal only — not commercial sales.
Bid doesn’t chase commercial prospects, score B2B leads, or run outbound email. It’s federal procurement, full stop. If you need Salesforce or Pipedrive, this isn’t it.
We read SAM. We don’t register you.
You register and renew at SAM.gov yourself. Bid surfaces your renewal date and refuses to draft against an expired entity, but it can’t speak to GSA or IAE on your behalf.
Federal opportunities only — for now.
State, county, and municipal bids are out of scope today. We don’t subscribe to those feeds and we don’t draft against them. If most of your work is state or local, Bid isn’t the right tool yet.
Bid accelerates capture. It doesn’t replace your capture team.
On large strategic pursuits, Bid is an accelerator — not a stand-in for your capture manager, your proposal manager, or your pricing analyst. On routine small-business set-asides under a few million, it can do most of the heavy lifting. Know which kind of pursuit you’re on.
Direct answers
The questions small-business federal contractors actually ask before they sign up — answered straight.
Do I need to be registered in SAM.gov first?
Yes. Bid reads SAM.gov and references your UEI and representations, but it does not register you. Get your SAM registration current before you bid; the platform will check status and refuse to draft against an expired entity.
Can I filter to set-aside-only solicitations?
Yes. The opportunity feed supports set-aside-only filtering across the certification and small-business categories you configure in your profile. You can also include partial set-asides or exclude full-and-open as a single toggle.
Does Bid support multiple NAICS codes?
Yes. You can list a primary plus any number of secondary NAICS, each with its own size standard. Scoring uses the solicitation NAICS, not your primary, which is how the contracting officer will evaluate you.
What if my pricing rules conflict with federal cost-proposal requirements?
Bid flags the conflict before the draft goes final. Common cases — Service Contract Act wage determinations above your standard labor rate, GSA ceiling pricing on a Schedule task order, fully-burdened vs. unburdened rate exhibits — are surfaced with the cite and a recommended action. You decide whether to override the rule for that bid; the change is logged.
How does Bid integrate with my Guspora Service workflow?
When you win an award, the contract drops into Service as a customer / project, with line items and milestones populated from the priced workbook. Closed work orders flow back as past-performance candidates for the next bid. The two products share the same tenant, the same pricing rules, and the same customer file.
What about state and local opportunities?
Out of scope today. Bid is federal-only. If state / local work matters to your business, raise it with us; it is on the roadmap once the federal flow is settled, but we will not promise a date.
Where does Bid send opportunity-related email?
Inbound notifications, agency Q&A captures, and amendment alerts route through inbound.guspora.com so they thread back to the right opportunity in the platform. Outbound from your shop to the contracting officer goes from your own mailbox; we do not impersonate you.
What does Bid cost?
Bid is priced per tenant, with included opportunity volume and per-bid drafting credits scaled to shop size. The current plans are on the pricing page; pricing is the same whether you win the bid or not, because we do not gate evaluation on award.
Built by an operator, for the small-business contractors trying to actually win federal work.
The federal market isn’t Pipedrive country. It rewards a clean SAM registration, an honest capability profile, defensible past performance, and a cost proposal a contracting officer can evaluate without calling you for clarification. Bid is built for that — by someone who’s sat on the offeror side of it.
Take Bid for a spin.
Bid lives on its own site — sign in or sign up at bid.guspora.com. Pricing and plan details are on the main Guspora pricing page.