Win more bids. Stop guessing.
The core of what we do: 2,182 California contracts where we have the full bid tab, the winner, every losing bidder, and the exact dollar amount each one bid. That's 6,031 losing bids on file and 3,485 named competitors. If you bid Caltrans or highway work, it goes deeper still: 394,125 line-item bid prices across 1,294 projects from 812 contractors, the exact per-unit price every bidder quoted on every item. We pair it all with a live feed of open RFPs in your trade and the analysis that turns it into capture intel for your firm.
The contractor's public-bid problem
If you bid on California public work, three things probably happen on every loss:
- You don't know who beat you, or by how much.
- You don't know if you should have bid lower, or if the agency was going to award to an incumbent regardless.
- You don't see the next solicitation in time to actually win it.
The data exists. Every public agency publishes it. It just lives in dozens of different places, no two formatted the same way, and nobody pulls it together for you.
We do.
The patterns we find in your lane.
These are the kinds of findings a Discovery Audit produces. The specific firm names, dollar amounts, and bid spreads are in your report, built from public award records for your trade and your agencies. We don't publish other contractors' competitive positions on a marketing page, and we don't put a number in front of you that we can't show you the source for.
Incumbency streaks
In a lot of county and city service books, one firm wins the same contract year after year. We show you who holds the lane, how many consecutive wins, and the renewal date, so you know when the entry window actually opens.
The spread on your losses
On the 2,182 contracts where the agency published the bid tab, we have every bidder and their amount. We line up your losses and show the gap between you and the winner. Sometimes it's 2%. Sometimes the incumbent was always going to win. Either answer changes how you bid next time. On Caltrans projects we have it line by line: 394,125 item-level bid prices, so you see exactly which items the winner beat you on, not just the bottom number.
Where you're under-represented
We compare the agencies you bid against the agencies in your trade and region that you've never touched. The gaps are usually the fastest pipeline, work you're qualified for and nobody told you was open.
Federal encroachment (where applicable)
For union-signatory electrical and similar trades with a federal footprint, we can map which primes are taking the local scope, by agency and dollar. This is a trade-specific add-on: where a classification (union signatory vs open-shop, set-aside status) drives the analysis, we verify it before anything goes in your report.
Cooperative purchasing routes
Some agencies buy off cooperative contracts (Sourcewell, HGAC) with no competitive bid. If your trade qualifies, we show you which agencies route work that way and what it takes to get on the vendor list.
Open RFP early warning
Beyond the historical analysis, we watch the live feed of open solicitations in your trade so the next one hits your inbox while there's still time to respond, not after the award posts.
The Engine. One package, everything you need to start winning.
Most contractors don't want to assemble five separate reports. They want one place to start. The Engine is the whole picture, delivered in week one, then a recurring plan keeps it current. The bundle auto-includes only what applies to your trade, so you never pay for analysis that doesn't fit your work.
- Discovery Audit: your 36-month public bid record, losses by named competitor with the dollar gaps
- Winning-price breakdown: what the winning bids actually were, where the public record allows
- Website + Google presence health vs your top 3 rivals
- 90-day capture roadmap
- First month of the weekly RFP digest in your trade
- One pursuit-coaching call
- Watermarked PDF, only for you
- If you bid hard construction, the winning-price breakdown leans on the bid tabs we hold for your work type.
- If you run service or maintenance contracts, the roadmap weights the renewal calendars and incumbency streaks in your lane.
- Federal encroachment mapping is added only where your trade has a federal footprint, and only as a trade-specific add-on where applicable.
- We tell you in the report what we have for your agencies and what we don't. No filler.
A note on pricing intel: we show you what the winning bids were, drawn from public award records. We do not claim line-by-line breakdowns of losing bidders' sheets. Those line items are not public, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Go deeper on one thing.
Buy these on their own, or add them to the Engine when one question matters more than the rest. Each is a PDF deliverable watermarked to you. Pay first, deliverable after. Refund within 7 days if it isn't useful.
- Deep profile of a single competitor in your lane
- Their win record by agency, from public award data
- Where they win and where they don't show up
- The dollar gaps on the contracts you both bid
- What the winning bids were on those jobs, where public record allows
- Who currently holds the work at that agency
- Incumbency streaks and the renewal calendar
- The winning-price band for that agency's contracts, where published
- How they buy: open bid, cooperative routes, set-asides
- A specific path to your first win there
- The winning-bid range for a specific job type in your region
- Drawn from public award records and published bid tabs
- Where you've been landing relative to that band
- A defensible price target for your next bid
- Sources cited so you can check every number
- Pre-bid response review
- Winning-price context for this specific RFP, from public record
- Davis-Bacon labor build-up if federal
- 30-minute pre-submission call
- Per pursuit, no commitment
Trade-specific add-on, where applicable: electrical and other union-signatory shops can add a federal Encroachment Tracker that maps non-signatory primes taking local scope. We verify signatory status before anything goes in the report, so this one ships only after that check clears.
Stay current. Pick a recurring tier.
The Engine launches you. These keep the pipeline fed and the intel fresh. All three are month-to-month. Cancel any time, no contract, no early-termination fee.
- Weekly RFP digest in your trade
- Recompete and renewal alerts on the contracts you care about
- Month-to-month, cancel any time
- Everything in Watch
- Quarterly Discovery Audit refresh
- Pursuit help when a bid you want comes up
- Month-to-month, cancel any time
- Everything in Engine
- Google Business Profile management
- We draft your bid responses
- Month-to-month, cancel any time
We'll put them here when they're real.
We're not going to invent customer quotes. When the first contractors who run a Discovery Audit give us a signed release, their words go here, named or anonymized however they prefer. Until then, this space stays empty on purpose. The free 5-page sample is how you judge the work before you spend anything.
Data as of 2026-06-03. The open-RFP feed updates continuously. The historical award and bid-tab dataset is refreshed in batches as agencies publish new results. Every number on this page comes from a public award record we can point you to.
Honest questions, honest answers.
What if you don't have data for the specific agency I bid?
We cover the California public buyers we can track, deepest in Southern California (San Diego, Orange County, Riverside, LA, and the Inland Empire) and thinner elsewhere in the state: cities, counties, school districts, special districts, water districts, transit agencies, state agencies, universities, and federal facilities. If your agency keeps its records behind a vendor login or paywall, we say so up front and refund. The Discovery Audit always tells you what we have and what we don't have.
How accurate is the data?
Every dollar comes from a public award record. We dedupe on (winner name, winner amount, project title) so the same award doesn't get counted twice. Where we use a derived classification (vertical tag, set-aside flag), we say so. We do not fabricate amounts or winner names. If a record looks suspicious (a $541M "Community Outreach" line that's actually a TANF transfer), we flag it as disputed.
How do you protect my Discovery Audit from leaking?
Every PDF we deliver is watermarked on every page with your firm name, your email, and the order ID. If someone forwards it, the watermark goes with it. We will only deliver to the email you paid from. We will not put your data into a shared report for someone else.
How fast can I cancel a recurring plan?
Watch, Engine, and Managed are all month-to-month. Cancel any time, no contract, no early-termination fee. If you cancel mid-month, we finish that month's digest and any work in flight, then stop billing.
Why are you cheaper than GovWin / Deltek / Onvia?
Those tools are enterprise SaaS at $5K-$50K/year per seat for a national database. We are local, California-only, small-team operated, and we sell the analysis directly. We don't have a salesforce, a Salesforce instance, an office in DC, or 200 engineers. The data we have is a slice of theirs, but it's the slice that matters if you bid in California, and we'll show you specifically what we have before you pay.
Why does Curbrank also do websites and SEO?
Same audience. The contractors who want bid intelligence also need a website that doesn't embarrass them when an agency procurement officer Googles them, and a Google Business Profile that ranks for the trade keywords. The three products sell together because they all answer the same question: "How do I get more good work?" Pick whichever you need. We don't upsell what doesn't fit.
Who's behind this?
A small California-based team that does this full time.
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No portal-scraping. No missed deadlines. We watch the live feed of California public solicitations in your trade and send the active ones every week — while there's still time to bid.
Start with a free 5-page sample.
Tell us your firm name and trade. We send a redacted 5-page sample showing the format and one specific finding for your vertical. If it's useful, you can buy a real Discovery Audit. If it's not, you keep the sample.
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