Every tender for your trade. Read for you. Before the truck starts.
One email a morning with every public tender in your trade from Peterborough to Durham to Quinte, each summarised in two plain sentences. Electrical and paving first; more trades opening soon.
Portals don't email you. We do.
Municipal tenders sit on 33 separate bids-and-tenders sites, each with its own login and its own idea of a category. We check them all so you don't.
Every new and updated posting on the 35 portals, including the ones filed under 'Other'.
Each posting gets a trade, a two-sentence summary, the closing time, and a rough scope when the buyer states one.
One email, your trade only, sorted by closing date. Open the ones worth pricing, forward the rest to a sub.
Everything that matters about a job, in four lines.
No dashboard to log into, no app to remember. If a posting doesn't match your trade, you never see it.
- When it closes, in plain terms
- Amber within two days, navy within a week. Local time, always.
- Who's buying, and how big
- The municipality, board or agency, plus a rough scope when it's stated.
- What the work actually is
- Two sentences written from the documents, not the title.
- Two links
- The original posting, and a ready-to-send forward for your sub or estimator.
Vacuum cleaning of roughly 1,900 catch basins on county roads; two-year term with an optional extension.
Less than the unfiltered list. One job pays for years of it.
MERX charges $30–60 a month for a province-wide feed you still have to read yourself. The first 50 BidBrief contractors pay $29 a month, locked for a year.
- ✓Daily alerts, weekdays at 6:30 am
- ✓Up to 3 trades, all of eastern Ontario
- ✓Plain-English summary of every posting
- ✓Forward to a sub, monthly recap
Every posting on 35 portals. Not "all tenders".
We'd rather list exactly what we read than promise everything. If your county isn't here, tell us and we'll add it.
I started BidBrief after watching contractors I know miss local jobs that were posted in plain sight, on portals nobody has time to check. The brief is the thing I wished existed: short, early, and only your trade.
- Which trades?
- Electrical, and paving, roads and civil at launch. General contracting, mechanical, roofing, landscaping and winter maintenance follow. Up to three trades on one subscription.
- Which areas?
- Peterborough, the Kawarthas, Northumberland, Durham and Quinte, plus provincial and federal postings delivered there. Narrow it to one area if you like.
- Can I cancel?
- Any time, from the manage link in every email. Nothing is charged for the first 14 days.
- Is the founding price really locked?
- Yes, for 12 months from your first charge. Then it moves to the regular price with 30 days' notice.