Facility services contractors
Janitorial and custodial, floor care, day porter and facility maintenance companies bidding on schools, cities and counties.
Your outsourced bid department
Ashlar Bid Desk finds the public bids worth chasing, gets the paperwork right and drafts the response. It serves small contractors that bid on city, county, school district and state work.
Public bids are rarely lost on price alone. They're lost on:
- Addendaa missed addendum
- Formsan unsigned form
- Pre-bida mandatory pre-bid meeting nobody attended
- Deadlinea response written at midnight the day before it's due
- Flat fees
- You submit under your own name
- Ashlar never contacts the buyer
Start with a free Bid Radar
A one-page report and a 2-minute video showing 3–5 open bids you qualify for, each closing in 14–30 days.
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Find the bids that fit
Every date is checked against the agency's official document.
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Score every bid
Every bid is scored on fit, winnability and effort, on the same five-step scale.
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Call it: bid or don't bid
At least one is a bid we'd tell you to skip. Knowing what not to chase saves as much time as anything else.
Bid RadarExample- Custodial services, K–12 school district Closes Dec 3 Checked FitWinnabilityEffort Bid
- Stormwater engineering RFQ, county Closes Dec 7 Checked FitWinnabilityEffort Bid
- Floor care, city facilities, 14 sites Closes Dec 9 Checked FitWinnabilityEffort Skip The mandatory site visit was held last week.
Your Radar lists real open bids, picked for your firm.
Request your Bid Radar
Free, with no obligation.
Who it's for
Most small contractors don't have a proposal team. Ashlar Bid Desk is that team, at a fraction of the cost of a hire.
Civil and environmental engineering firms
Water, wastewater, stormwater and environmental firms responding to RFQs and statements of qualifications.
How it works
Four steps, each a flat fee. Stop after any of them.
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Bid Radar
Free
- 3–5 open bids you qualify for
- A bid or don't-bid call on each
- A 2-minute video walkthrough
See what's open for you right now. No obligation.
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Bid-Ready Kit
$750
- A reusable answer library
- A one-page capability statement
- A compliance checklist
- Registration on Georgia's supplier portal and two others
The $750 is credited to your first month if you continue.
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Monthly bid desk
from $1,500/month
- Weekly bid monitoring
- Bid/no-bid memos
- Library upkeep
- One small response each month
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Full proposals
from $1,750
Best-value responses and engineering SOQs, quoted per project.
How we work
Flat fees.
Never a percentage of the contract.
You stay in control.
You submit every bid under your own name. Ashlar never contacts the buyer or evaluators.
Accuracy first.
Every deadline, mandatory meeting and required form is checked against the official solicitation.
About Ashlar Bid Desk
Ashlar Bid Desk is run by Drew Peske in Athens, Georgia. Drew works remotely with contractors across Georgia and beyond, writes every Bid Radar himself, and takes on a small number of clients so each one gets real attention.
An ashlar is a stone cut square and true, the kind that holds up a building. That's the standard for every bid.
Find out what's open for you this month
Both buttons open Drew's calendar. Pick a 15-minute slot and say what you bid on.