How It Works

The bids come to you.

We watch public procurement across the Midwest, keep the jobs that match your trade and your state, and send them to you. You stop checking portals.

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968 open bids across the 12 Midwest states right now, counting a job tagged for two trades once

The Change

You already have a system. It costs you Saturdays.

Most shops find work by checking the same handful of county and state sites, or by hearing about a job from somebody else. It works until the week it doesn't.

Checking It Yourself

A different site, and a different login, for every county and agency
Jobs in your trade surface late, and if the pre-bid walkthrough was mandatory and has passed, you can no longer bid at all
Nothing tells you a job is near you, or in your trade
The services that do this start around $200 a month, on an annual contract

Jobs & Bids

Free to browse one state
250+ sources checked for you, the busiest every 15 minutes and the rest daily
A deadline on nearly every card, free, to the minute whenever the notice gives a time
Your trades come first, then what's left is ordered by how far it is from your base ZIP, nearest first, and on a paid plan that ordering crosses state lines: a job 30 miles away in the next state comes ahead of one 300 miles away in your own. Exact miles when the notice names a city, a mileage range when it only names a county, and your weekly email is ordered the same way
$99.99 a month for all 12 states, or save over 25% paying yearly
Cancel any time, no contract

What Actually Happens

Three things, and none of them are yours to do.

We watch the portals.

State, county, city and federal procurement across all 12 Midwest states. The busiest sources are checked every 15 minutes, the rest daily.

250+ sources, plus jobs posted by other members. They are not spread evenly: we have built far more sources for Illinois, Ohio and Michigan than for the Dakotas, so check the live count for your own state before you decide.

We match your trade.

You pick your trade and your base ZIP once. Everything you see after that is tagged by trade and by how far the job is from you.

Free follows one state you choose. Pro covers all 12.

You get one email a week.

One digest a week, each job with its deadline, a line or two of scope, and a button that opens the full card. Nothing to log into, nothing firing at you all week.

Weekly email is on Pro. Free gets a limited view of the live feed on the site — one state, and part of each card.

A Real One

This is a bid that is open right now.

Not a sample. It came off a public source this week. This is what you see free, and what a paid plan opens.

Roofing JB-15333

Roof Repair Building 333 Rock Island Arsenal Rock Island IL

W6QK Acc-Ri (Dept of Defense) · Rock Island, IL, Federal

Repair the low-slope roof of Building 333 at Rock Island Arsenal. The work includes…

Deadline: Sep 11, 2026 · 10:00 AM CT
Full description: The whole description, not just the first linePro
Estimated value: Shown when the notice states onePro
Contact: Shown when the agency lists onePro

The deadline is on nearly every card, Free included, exactly as the agency published it, to the minute whenever the notice gives a time. A small number of notices publish none, and those say so rather than guessing.
Pro opens the whole description on every bid in all 12 Midwest states. Free shows the first line of it. Every card on the feed carries one: a bid we cannot describe stays off the feed rather than wasting your time on it.
Pro also shows the procurement contact the agency listed, with the person's name when they print one. Every card on the feed carries a phone number or an email address: where an agency publishes no way to reach anybody, the bid stays off the feed instead of landing in front of you.

Three more open in the Midwest right now

HVAC JB-22662

ENGINEERING COMPRESSORS Boiler Plant Bldg 76

250-NETWORK Contract Office 10 (36C250) (Veterans Affairs, Department of) · Marion, IN, Federal

Closes Sep 10, 2026 · 3:00 PM CT

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Painting JB-11373

Protective Coatings Indefinite Delivery Contract at Grand Forks AFB

FA4659 319 Cons Pk (Dept of Defense) · Grand Forks AFB, ND, Federal

Closes Oct 15, 2026 · 4:30 PM CT

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General JB-13408

Upgrade Transitional Rehabilitation House Bathrooms at Grand Island VA Medical Center

Network Contract Office 23 (36C263) (Veterans Affairs, Department of) · NE, Federal

Closes Sep 10, 2026 · 10:00 AM CT

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A snapshot, not a promise: what is open changes daily, and some weeks are busier than others for a given trade.

Who It Is For

Whether you run pipe, wire, duct or brick.

Seven trades, plus a catch-all for the packages that do not fit neatly into one. Below is what is open in Nebraska right now, counted from the same live feed you get when you sign up. Nothing here is a projection.

HVAC 2 open in Nebraska Plumbing 5 open in Nebraska Electrical 3 open in Nebraska Roofing None open in Nebraska General Construction 11 open in Nebraska Masonry / Paving 7 open in Nebraska Painting 2 open in Nebraska

Thin in Nebraska right now: Roofing (0), HVAC (2), Painting (2). If one of those is your trade, expect weeks where nothing new comes up in Nebraska at all. We would rather you knew that before you paid. The work that is actually there is Plumbing (5), Electrical (3), General Construction (11). Pro covers all 12 Midwest states, so a thin trade at home does not mean an empty feed. It does mean most of what you see will be outside Nebraska.

21 open bids in Nebraska in total, counting a job tagged for two trades once. Counts refresh through the day, and a bid drops off the moment its deadline passes. See the actual Nebraska list →

Counts for another state: Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota Ohio South Dakota Wisconsin

Straight Answers

The questions people actually ask.

Do you bid for me?

You bid yourself, directly with the agency, and we are not part of the contracting process.

What if there is nothing for my trade this week?

Some weeks are thin, especially for a single trade in a single state. That is why Pro covers all 12 Midwest states instead of one, and why you can browse the whole feed on the site any day rather than waiting for the weekly email.

Do I have to be registered with the state to bid?

Sometimes, and it is the agency's call, not ours. Some ask for prequalification or a licence on file before they will take a bid. When the notice spells that out we try to show it, but treat what you see here as a heads-up rather than the rule. Ask the agency before you spend time preparing a bid.

Can a bid card be wrong?

Yes. We build these from public notices, and a card can be incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong. The agency's own notice is the official version and it beats anything you read here, so confirm the details with them before you rely on them. Whether you qualify, what you submit, and how it turns out are between you and the agency. Jobs & Bids is not responsible for the outcome.

Is the contact on every bid?

No. Pro shows the procurement contact the agency listed, when the agency provides one. Many notices do not include a person at all, and we would rather say that plainly than sell you a number that does not exist.

Commission, cancelling, billing, devices and data accuracy are all answered on the full FAQ.

See the whole Midwest with Pro.

All 12 states, the whole description rather than its first line, every bid ranked by how far the work is from your base, and the procurement contact the agency listed when they provide one. Pro starts with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel any time.

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For a Team

Enterprise puts the whole company on one account.

Ten seats are included, so your estimator, your PM and the owner each get their own login instead of passing one around. Every seat gets everything Pro has across all 12 Midwest states, one admin screen invites and removes people, and billing stays on a single invoice. Extra seats are $29.99/seat/mo, or $269.91/seat/yr on the annual plan. Enterprise is $699.99 a month, or $6,299 a year.

One thing to know: Enterprise does not include a free trial. If you want to try the product first, start the 14-day Pro trial and move the team up when you are ready.

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