Federal Biddingby Guspora
Find federal work on SAM.gov, draft the bid against your own pricing rules, hand the contractor a review-complete packet. The contractor submits; Guspora Bid does not.
Find. Draft. Hand off.
Three jobs, one platform, no impersonation of the contractor in front of the contracting officer.
Find federal work
Guspora Bid pulls active solicitations from SAM.gov on a continuous schedule and scores each one against the capability profile you maintain inside the platform. Scoring weighs NAICS code match, set-aside eligibility, place-of-performance overlap with your service area, dollar-value band against your shop size, and incumbent history when the agency publishes it. You see only opportunities you can credibly bid, and each one carries a plain-English explanation of why it scored where it did. Filters let you narrow further by sub-agency, response deadline, or solicitation type so a small back office is not buried under raw SAM output.
Draft the bid
Once you accept an opportunity, Bid extracts the requirements line by line from the solicitation PDF and Section L/M instructions. It maps each requirement to a draft response, suggests pricing against your own pricing rules, and produces narrative sections that you accept, edit, or reject one paragraph at a time. Past-performance entries are pulled from your Guspora Service work-order history when the contract type allows it. Every claim in the draft is anchored to a source in your own records or in the solicitation, so you are not starting from a blank page and you are not signing off on text you cannot defend.
Submit the packet
Bid does not submit on your behalf. That is intentional. You receive a review-complete packet in the formats the agency requires (PDF, DOCX, XLSX cost workbook, attachments index) plus a step-by-step checklist for the agency portal — SAM.gov Contract Opportunities, DIBBS, GSA eBuy, FEMA Industry Liaison, or wherever the solicitation directs. The contractor signs, uploads, and represents to the government. Bid sits behind the contractor; it never speaks for the contractor to a contracting officer.
Small-business federal contractors
Socioeconomic categories and the SBA programs behind them are part of how Bid scores opportunities — not a marketing checkbox.
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
Bid was built by an SDVOSB and the default scoring weights reflect that. Set-aside filters surface SDVOSB-only and SDVOSB-priority solicitations first, and the capability profile carries your VA CVE / VetCert verification details into every cover sheet that needs them.
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 orders results so SDVOSB and VOSB priorities are visible above the open-market noise, and the packet carries your VetCert profile fields into the SF1449 cover materials.
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, not a checkbox
The capability profile is the spine of every score, every draft, and every cost narrative. Build it once, keep it current, and the rest of the platform compounds on 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
SDVOSB / VOSB (VetCert), 8(a), WOSB / EDWOSB, HUBZone, plus state DBE / MBE / WBE if relevant for federally funded state work. 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.
Cage / UEI / SAM
CAGE code, UEI, SAM.gov registration status and renewal date, DUNS legacy mapping, and assertions on representations and certifications. 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, walk it across to a teaming partner, or hand it to your accountant for indirect-rate work. Guspora Bid does not lock your capability data behind the platform.
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 you.
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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 are not retail price lists. Bid takes your pricing rules and assembles a cost narrative the contracting officer can evaluate for reasonableness.
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 are not.
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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 Guspora Bid is not
Federal procurement attracts marketing claims that do not survive contact with a contracting officer. Here is what we will not pretend to do.
Not an auto-submit tool
Bid produces a review-complete packet. The contractor signs, uploads, and submits to the government. We will not push your offer into a federal portal on your behalf, and we will not pretend to.
Not unsupervised proposal AI
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 cannot become one.
Not a generic CRM
Bid does not chase commercial prospects, score B2B leads, or do email outreach. It is federal procurement only. If you are looking for Salesforce or Pipedrive, this is not that, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Not a SAM.gov registration service
You register and renew at SAM.gov yourself. Bid reads SAM; it does not represent you to GSA / IAE for entity registration. We surface your renewal date and remind you, but the registration is your obligation.
Not a state or local bid tool
Federal opportunities only. State, county, and municipal bids are out of scope today; we do not subscribe to those feeds and we will not draft against them. If your work is mostly state / local, Bid is not the right product for you yet.
Not a substitute for a capture team
On large, strategic pursuits, Bid accelerates the work; it does not replace the capture manager, the proposal manager, or the pricing analyst. On routine small-business set-asides under a few million dollars, it can do most of the heavy lifting. Know which kind of pursuit you are on.
Direct answers
The questions small-business federal contractors actually ask before they sign up.
Do I need to be registered in SAM.gov first?
Yes. Bid reads SAM.gov and references your UEI / CAGE / 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 SDVOSB, VOSB, 8(a), WOSB / EDWOSB, HUBZone, and total small-business set-asides, individually or combined. 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 a service-disabled veteran for the small-business contractors who are actually trying to win federal work.
The federal market is not Pipedrive country. It rewards a clean SAM registration, a real capability profile, defensible past performance, and a cost proposal a contracting officer can evaluate without calling you for clarification. Guspora Bid is built for that, by someone who has been on the offeror side of it.
Ready to take a look?
Guspora Bid runs on its own site. Sign in or sign up at bid.guspora.com. Pricing and plan details are on the Guspora pricing page.