The questions contractors actually ask, answered the way I answer them on the phone.
Myself. Natively is my company and the desk is mine. No agency, no lead broker, no vendor relationships, and nobody pays me to steer you anywhere.
From the public vendor registry you filed with. New Jersey firms come from the NJ SAVI vendor registry, published by the state as open data. New York City firms come from the SBS certified business list. That filing says you want to hear about government work in your trade. This desk is that, done properly.
Because the bids are public and I had already read the packet. I do not send brochures. If the desk emails you, it is about a live solicitation in your trade with a date on it, and you can look the solicitation up yourself before you ever answer me.
You should not trust it. You should read it. Everything the desk prepares cites the page of the bid packet it came from, so your review takes minutes and nothing asks for faith.
I am not a contractor and I do not pretend to be one. You know your trade; I will never tell you how to hang pipe or paint steel. What I bring is the other half of winning public work: reading every posting daily, knowing the packets, and getting the paperwork right. My background is building and running operations whose whole job was handling enormous volumes of information without missing things, four of those years as an executive at a venture backed company. The bid watch is that discipline pointed at procurement sites, and the about page shows what it caught this month.
A limit, not a catch. I take one firm per trade per territory, because preparing two competitors on the same public bid is a conflict I will not touch. First firm to engage holds the seat.
No. I never charge to register you for anything a government gives away free, and I will tell you when a registration is free and show you where. The fee pays for watching, judgment, and prepared paperwork. If you have been burned by a SAM renewal outfit or a grants directory, I know exactly the pattern you are wary of, and this site is built to be checked against it.
Never. Flat fees only, listed on the fees page. Contingent fees on public bids collide with the pay to play and vendor certifications many agencies require, and they corrupt the skip verdict you are paying for.
Then do it, and I mean that. Plenty of firms take the free digest, bid on their own, and call when a packet gets thick. The desk is for firms that want the watching and the paperwork off their plate every week, not a toll booth in front of public information.
No. Month to month, cancel anytime, and the bid file the desk builds for your firm leaves with you.
New Jersey. The desk covers New Jersey and New York City today, and when a bid requires showing up, a mandatory site visit or a hand delivered envelope, we plan that with you before the go decision, not after.
You get me, not a call center, and a question is never a sales trigger. Some of the best calls this desk has taken ended with me saying the honest thing: skip it.