From posting to submitted bid, in five steps. Your firm holds the pen at every signature.
The desk reads every new posting daily across the state, county, and city sources on the coverage page. This is automated, which is the only honest way to claim daily coverage of that many sites. A person checking bookmarks misses postings; a system that reads everything does not.
Postings in your trade and territory get checked against the calendar first, because the calendar is what kills bids: mandatory pre bid meetings, registration cutoffs, question deadlines, addenda issued so far, and the close date with its delivery method. A bid with a passed mandatory meeting is dead no matter how good the number is, and the desk says so plainly.
Every match comes with a verdict, including the verdict to skip, and a skip names its reason: incumbent pricing history, a bonding requirement out of reach, an agency estimate that makes the job thin. A desk paid on commission cannot give you that advice. This one can, because the fee is flat either way.
On bids you chase, the desk prepares the full response from the bid packet itself, never from the advertisement. Advertisements summarize and packets govern, and the difference between them is where rejections live. Every requirement in the package cites the packet page it came from.
Between bids the desk maintains your file: certification renewals, standing prequalification registrations, references, and a debrief log on losses. By the third or fourth bid most of your package already exists and preparation gets fast. That is the point of a standing desk over a one off service.
You review the package, correct anything wrong about your firm, sign, and submit. Nothing in it asks for faith; every line says where it came from. The desk is never the bidder of record.
Fifteen minutes settles whether there is enough flow in your lane to justify a desk. If there is not, I will say so, and that answer is free.