Signing in
There is no password. Enter your email at Sign in and we email you a link; the link opens your account. Anyone who has it can open your account too, so don’t forward it.
One sign-in covers Georgia and Tennessee. If a link has expired, ask for another; we send at most one every ten minutes.
Your morning email
Each morning we compare the day’s new bids with what you told us: your counties and your trades. On a morning with a new bid that fits, you get one email. On a morning without one, you get nothing.
A bid matches when it is in one of your counties and fits one of your trades. Under its own heading, the email can also list bids in your trade from counties within about 50 miles. One email shows up to 25 bids, the soonest deadline first.
County names
Type counties as they appear on bids, separated by commas. “Macon-Bibb” and “Bibb” both mean Bibb County; plain “Macon” means Macon County, which is a different place. The same goes for Athens-Clarke, Augusta-Richmond and Columbus-Muscogee. A name we don’t recognise matches no bids, so check the spelling.
Deadlines in your calendar
Your account holds a calendar link: a live feed of the deadlines for your matches. Subscribe once and new deadlines keep appearing.
Google Calendar
- Press the plus beside Other calendars.
- Choose From URL.
- Paste your calendar link and choose Add calendar.
Apple Calendar
- Open File.
- Choose New Calendar Subscription.
- Paste your calendar link and choose Subscribe.
Outlook
- Choose Add calendar.
- Choose Subscribe from web.
- Paste your calendar link and choose Import.
Your company facts
Fill in your company fact sheet once: who you are, your licenses and bonding, the work you have done. Every draft and every package is built from it, and anything it doesn’t cover is marked as missing in the draft, never guessed at.
Your facts are used for your own bids and nothing else. No other customer sees them.
Reading a bid page
Every bid has its own page. At the top are the dates that matter, each with its weekday and time zone. Below them is what we know, and under each fact the document it came from and the page.
Then come the agency’s own files. Where we may, we keep an unchanged copy you can open on the page. Where a file carries a notice against copying, and for all engineers’ drawings, we link to the agency’s copy and say why.
Getting a bid prepared
Pick a bid and order the package: $199 for one bid, or one of the three a month that come with Platinum. We write out the answers to the fact blanks on the agency's forms from the facts you give us, ready for you to copy onto the forms. Every number is yours: you set the price, sign, and provide any bond. You review it and can ask for one round of changes.
Ready for your review in 5 business days, counted from when we have your order, your company facts and the bid's documents. If we can’t finish it in time, we refund the full $199. You don’t have to ask.
We don’t prepare Department of Defense or Coast Guard bids.
How a finished bid goes in
| If the agency takes bids | What happens |
|---|---|
| On paper | You print it, sign it and deliver it. |
| By email | You sign off, and we submit it from GovRoute for your business. If the agency says only the bidder may send it, you send it and we give you the files and a how-to-send sheet. |
| Through its portal | You press Submit from your own account, and we give you the files and the steps. |
Plans and billing
There are two ways to start: one bid prepared for $199, with no plan, or a plan that emails you on mornings with a new match. You add a card when you choose one. What each plan holds is on the pricing page.
To cancel, open your account, choose Your plan, then Cancel plan. Your plan stays active to the end of the month you paid for, and you aren’t charged again. Changed your mind before then? Choose Keep my plan.
Reaching us
Write to hello@govroute.co, or use the contact page. We usually reply the same business day.