The problem
A government contract is steady, repeat work — snow clearing on a base, janitorial in an office building, grass cutting on an airfield, boilers maintained year after year. But to win one, you first have to bid. A bid means a solicitation package that can run 400 pages: forms, certifications, insurance clauses, security requirements, and dates that quietly knock bidders out.
Bid consultants charge thousands of dollars just to read that package and tell you what is inside. So most small firms skip the bid — and the work goes to whoever bothered to read it.
What we do
We watch every federal tender in facility and grounds maintenance from the hour it posts, so you do not have to. When one fits your firm, a one-page brief lands in your inbox: what the buyer is actually buying, what the work paid last time (from public award records), the dates and requirements that knock bidders out, and where your firm has already done this exact work. The brief is free, and it only comes when a tender genuinely fits.
If you decide to bid, we read the full package, build a checklist against every stated requirement, and draft the complete proposal — technical volume, pricing sheet, every form — ready for your review and signature. You supply the facts about your firm and your prices; we do the rest. You stay the bidder; we never sign anything.
Price
- The brief — free. Every fitting tender, one page, no obligation. This is how the relationship starts.
- The full compliant draft — $750 flat. Charged only when the bid is actually submitted. About a tenth of what bid consultants charge.
- Optional success fee — 1% of first-year contract value. Only if you win, invoiced after. Take it or leave it; the $750 is the whole required price.
An example, from the public record
A snow-and-ice tender for the military housing at CFB Borden: lowest compliant price wins, the bid itself is mostly proof you can do the work plus a pricing sheet, and the one knockout is a mandatory site visit weeks before the deadline. That is a bid a firm already plowing the base next door should win — if somebody reads the package in time and tells them the dates. That somebody is us.
What's covered
- Trades: facility and grounds maintenance — snow and ice, janitorial and cleaning, grounds and landscaping, building maintenance (HVAC, plumbing, elevators, roofing).
- Region: Ontario first. More trades and more provinces as we grow — municipal and provincial tenders are on the same road.
- Formats: the simple, price-driven ones — standing offers, supply arrangements, straightforward maintenance RFPs — where reading carefully and hitting every gate is the whole game.
How to start
Email us your trade and your region. That is the whole setup. We start watching for you, and the first brief that fits costs nothing.
The honest part
The tender data is the Government of Canada's open data — free to everyone, and we say so. What you pay for is the reading, the compliance checklist, and the drafting. Your prices are yours, your firm signs as the bidder, and winning depends on your price and your work. We sell the drafting, not promises about winning.
Data source: Canada Buys tender notices and award notices, Public Services and Procurement Canada open data (Open Government Licence – Canada).