About Bidengine

The Concept: Anyone involved in government contracting knows that there are a number of bid location services floating around. But Bidengine is different because it embraces the explosion of bid opportunities posted on the Internet. Other bid services fail to do this.

The Background: The public market now has unprecedented opportunities for both product and service contractors. It is estimated that the total amount of public purchase requests now advertised on the Internet exceeds $400 billion annually. And yet because they're so difficult to find, contractors can easily miss lucrative contracts.

Traditional search engines are virtually useless in locating bid opportunities. A search for bids using AltaVista, for example, returns over two million results! Entering keywords describing a product or service in a search engine is even more useless because most of the results you receive have nothing to do with actual bid opportunities.

The answer to this problem is a focused search engine that encompasses only procurement web pages.

The Scope: Bidengine finds opportunities at all known bid, procurement forecast and award pages worldwide. Our researchers continually search the Internet for new and changed pages. Our constant and systematic research assures that Bidengine is up-to-date and includes nearly every public bid source on the Internet.

Bidengine is unique in its ability to narrow Internet searching to bid pages only. And because the service is web-based, rather than limited to individually acquired "electronic feeds" from governmental entities, its coverage far exceeds any electronic bid service currently available.

The primary focus of Bidengine is actual bid opportunities and procurement forecasts. The site, however, provides other valuable information such as awards, subcontracting opportunities and contact information for buying agents.