Find the public tenders your company can actually win.
BidCaliper reads every federal, Québec, Toronto and Yukon public tender, and the ones you forward it, and checks each one against your trades, certificates, bonding and travel radius. Then it tells you which ones fit, and why.
Start with a 30-day free trial, no card. Plans from $149 a month (CAD).
BidCaliperOpportunitiesWhat's comingCompanyDecision recordYOUR COMPANYClear to bid — 2
A MUNICIPAL WATER UTILITY · BRANDON, MB · CLOSES IN 11 DAYS
Worth a look — 19
A SCHOOL DIVISION · THE NOTICE DOES NOT SAY WHERE THE WORK IS
A HEALTH AUTHORITY · BOND SET AS A PERCENTAGE, NO VALUE PUBLISHED
Not open to you — 2,073, each with a reason
THE WORK IS ROOFING, WHICH ISN'T ON YOUR LIST
MANITOBA WORK AT OR ABOVE $100,000 NEEDS A COR OR SECOR. YOU HOLD NEITHER.
“Bidders shall hold a valid Certificate of Recognition (COR) or SECOR issued by a recognised certifying partner.”Instructions to bidders, cl. 4.2
See it in action
BidCaliper in 90 seconds
Tenders checked against your company with the reasons, your part of the specification found, a price drafted at published union rates, bids reviewed and compared, and projects found before they are tendered.
The problem
Most public tenders were never work you could bid
A tender listing doesn’t know your trades, how far you travel, or what your surety will bond. So it sends you everything, and someone spends the morning finding the few worth bidding.
2,073
not open to you, each with a reason
19
worth a look
2
clear to bid today
How this was measured
We ran one company profile, a nine-person Winnipeg mechanical shop working within 1,000 km, through the live product against every open tender we held on 20 October 2026. It is an example, not a customer’s account.
Distance is measured by road. Kenora is in Ontario and closer to your yard than Dauphin, which is in Manitoba. BidCaliper measures driving distance from your own base, so your service area can cross a provincial border.
Qualification
Every answer shows the clause it came from
Know why before your estimator spends an hour reading it.
BidCaliperOpportunitiesWhat's comingCompanyDecision recordYOUR COMPANY“Bidders shall hold a valid Certificate of Recognition (COR) or SECOR issued by a recognised certifying partner.”Instructions to bidders, cl. 4.2
Addendums
Know what changed, and what it means for your bid
Acknowledge two of three addendums and your bid is thrown out on compliance. Nobody tells you which one you missed.
What the tender said
50% of contract value
Performance bond. Inside your surety’s single-job limit, so it passed.
Addendum 2 changed it
100% of contract value
You see both values, the clause it came from, and which earlier addendum it supersedes.
What it changes in your bid
Check with your surety before you bid
Addendum 2 has been read but not acknowledged. Your priced schedule was built on the drawing it replaced. Both are marked out of date. Nothing is re-priced for you.
Cost and margin
What an hour of your crew actually costs
BidCaliper uses your wages, burden, overhead and productive hours to work out what an hour of your crew really costs. You price jobs against your own number instead of an industry average.
How the cost model works →Cost per productive hour
What it was built from
Utilization is still on a benchmark default. How much of a paid week your crew bills moves this number more than any other answer.
An example. Yours is built from your own figures.
Preparing the bid
Built from what you’ve already saved
Documents, requirements, addendums and your priced schedule in one place, with anything missing listed. It never sends anything. You sign and send.
Bid workspace
- Documents
- Requirements
- Addendums
- Priced schedule
- Notes
- History
Current through addendum 1. Two items still to do, and the priced schedule was built on drawing revision A.
You get a package to sign
Every requirement, document and addendum goes into one package. You are the one who submits it.
Your bid history
See what you’re bidding, what you’ve won, what you’ve lost, and why
Every opportunity you are considering, have submitted, won, lost or passed on. Each one shows who decided, when, and the reason they gave.
Considering
6
Boiler replacement — pump house No. 4
Submitted
3
Awaiting award. Bid validity 60 days.
Won
2
Priced at a 14% margin against our own hourly cost.
Lost
4
Submitted at $214,000. Awarded lower.
No bid
11
Performance bond above our single-job limit.
Example counts. Records are shown as they were saved, not recalculated. Your no-bids are the evidence a COR auditor asks for.
Coverage
What BidCaliper covers today
Most tools like this won’t tell you what they miss.
| Where the work is | Read automatically | You can bring it in | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal — anywhere in Canada | Yes | — | CanadaBuys, under the Open Government Licence. |
| Québec — every public body | Yes | — | SEAO, under Creative Commons Attribution. |
| Manitoba — province, infrastructure, City of Winnipeg | No | Yes | MERX terms forbid copying any of it. Paste in a notice from your own account and we check it like any other. |
| British Columbia | No | Yes | BC Bid excludes automated readers. We follow that. |
| Alberta | No | Yes | Alberta Purchasing Connection excludes automated readers. |
| Ontario, Saskatchewan, Atlantic, the territories | No | Yes | We haven't checked these yet, so we can't say either way. |
CanadaBuys, under the Open Government Licence.
SEAO, under Creative Commons Attribution.
MERX terms forbid copying any of it. Paste in a notice from your own account and we check it like any other.
BC Bid excludes automated readers. We follow that.
Alberta Purchasing Connection excludes automated readers.
We haven't checked these yet, so we can't say either way.
Federal notices cover work in every province, so a Manitoba job bought federally does reach you. What is missing is provincial and municipal buying outside Québec.
Plans
One job you’d have missed pays for a year
Start with a 30-day free trial of the Bid plan, no card: every tender checked, every answer with its reasons, and your bids prepared. After it, a free account shows your top 2 matches each week. Plans from $149 a month (CAD).
Watch
Find the right opportunities.
$149 /month
- Every federal, Québec, Toronto and Yukon tender, every six hours
- Checked against your trades, tickets, bonding and radius
- Every answer with its clause
- Unlimited bid packages
Bid
Prepare and keep the bid current.
$449 /month
- Everything in Watch
- Addendums tracked: what changed and what is now out of date
- Upload a takeoff and price it against your own costs
Win
Manage your bidding operation.
$949 /month
- Everything in Bid
- Pipeline, win/loss performance, bonding exposure
- Buyer and competitor history from past awards
- More than one base, or more than one company
All prices in Canadian dollars, per month. Cancel and you keep access to the end of the month you have paid for.
Compare the plans in full →See it against your own company
Set up your trades, your base and your crew. Today’s live tenders are checked while you watch.