BidCaliper reads every public tender in Canada, throws out the ones you can't win or can't do, and tells you what the rest are worth against your real costs. Not a keyword alert. A verdict, with its reasoning attached.
Live right now, for a ten-person Winnipeg mechanical contractor:
We checked. Forty-four Manitoba contracts match the word “heating”. They are heating-fuel deliveries on winter roads — twenty-seven of them classified as goods, not work. Every alerting tool on the market would push all forty-four to a plumbing contractor.
BidCaliper reads what the job actually is before it decides. Then it checks the things that quietly disqualify you: a mandatory site visit that already happened, a COR requirement above the $100,000 threshold, a certification you don't hold, bonding beyond your surety.
Anyone can point a language model at a PDF. The part that matters is knowing what disqualifies a Canadian trade contractor, and what an hour of your labour actually costs.
Federal and provincial open data ingested directly under open licence. Your own portal accounts connected for anything behind a login. Nothing scraped, nothing that puts you at risk.
Trade fit, closing pressure, mandatory site visits, COR and SECOR thresholds, certifications, bonding capacity, distance. Kills most of the feed before you read a word.
Your utilization, overhead and wage — three questions — turned into what this job would actually pay you. Every figure shows where it came from and how sure it is.
You're an estimator. You'll test this once, and if it hands you a confident wrong figure you'll never open it again. So every number carries where it came from, how confident it is, and what would change it — and when we don't have the data, it says so instead of guessing.
A small mechanical package carries $16,000 of margin. A hospital one carries $87,000. If BidCaliper surfaces one job a year you'd otherwise have missed, the maths isn't close.
No card to start. Cancel any time. Your cost figures stay yours — we never share them, and they never train anything.
Connect your trades and certifications, answer three questions about your shop, and see every open tender in the country sorted by what it's worth to you.
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