From an opportunity to a decision you can defend.
BidDirective is not a platform you log into, and not a place to find work. It is the review that sits between the opportunities you already have and the estimating time you spend on them.
Three steps, in order.
- 01
Tell Us What You Build
We learn your trades, territory, preferred project types, and bidding criteria.
We start with a profile of how your company actually bids: the scopes you self-perform, the ones you sub out, and the ones you decline.
Territory is recorded the way you work it — by radius, by metro, by state, or by the specific markets where you already have crews and supervision.
We capture the disqualifiers too. Project types you avoid, delivery methods you will not take, and size ranges outside your comfort band matter as much as what you want.
- 02
We Qualify the Opportunity
BidDirective reviews the documents and establishes what they actually say about your scope.
You send what you already have — an invitation, a plan set, a bid board listing, a forwarded email. We work from those documents.
Each one is read rather than forwarded. We look at what the documents actually establish for your trade and what they leave open.
Where information is missing — an incomplete package, no addenda, an unstated scope split — we say so instead of filling the gap with an assumption.
- 03
You Get a Decision
Every opportunity comes back with a clear PURSUE, REVIEW, or SKIP.
What arrives is a short, readable brief per project: location, general contractor, bid date, project type, the scope relevant to you, and what is available to review.
Every project carries a plain decision — PURSUE, REVIEW, or SKIP — so the first call takes a minute rather than an afternoon.
You decide what to bid. We never submit, price, or commit anything on your behalf.
What every opportunity is checked against.
These six criteria are applied to every opportunity before a decision is returned. A project that fails on trade or territory comes back as a SKIP, with the reason stated.
Trade
Whether the documents show work your company actually performs — not an adjacent scope that happens to share a wall section.
Location
Where the project sits relative to the territory you told us you work, and how that squares with crew travel and supervision.
Project Type
Shell, interior build-out, healthcare, education, industrial, multifamily — matched against the categories you pursue and the ones you avoid.
Scope
What the drawings and specifications indicate for your trade: assemblies, framing systems, heights, sheathing, ceilings, finishes.
Bid Deadline
Whether there is enough runway left to take off the work properly, or whether the date has already made the opportunity impractical.
Project Fit
Size, delivery method, and bidding criteria measured against the profile your company gave us — including the jobs you would rather not chase.
What a brief contains.
Short enough to read between calls. Specific enough to act on.
- Project & Location
- What the job is and where it sits relative to the territory you work.
- General Contractor
- Who is taking bids, when that is established by the documents or the invitation.
- Bid Deadline
- The date on record, plus how much runway is actually left to take off the work.
- Project Type
- Shell, build-out, healthcare, industrial, and so on — checked against your profile.
- Relevant Trade
- The portion of the work that belongs to your scope, stated narrowly.
- Scope Summary
- What the drawings and specifications indicate for your trade — and what they leave open.
- Plans Available
- What is in the supplied package and what is referenced but missing.
- Missing Information
- What the documents reference but do not include, and what has to be confirmed before pricing.
- Decision
- PURSUE, REVIEW, or SKIP — with the reasoning that produced it. No score, and no precision the documents cannot support.
What BidDirective does not do.
Being clear about the edges of the service is part of making it useful.
We are not a plan room, bid board, or lead service. You bring the opportunity; we tell you whether it is worth your time.
We do not produce estimates, take off quantities, or price work.
We do not submit bids, sign documents, or communicate with a general contractor on your behalf.
We do not guarantee contracts, award volume, or revenue.
We do not treat an assumption as a fact. When the documents do not establish something, the brief says so.
Ready to see what fits your company?
Send us your trade, territory, and bidding criteria, and the opportunities you are weighing. We'll take it from there.