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The public contracts that fit your business. One email, every Monday.

Federal, state, county, city and special-district agencies publish new solicitations every week, each on its own schedule. Bidstream reads them, keeps the ones that match your trade and your service area, and sends you the short list on Monday morning.

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§ 01

How it works

Three steps, and only the first one asks anything of you.

  1. Tell us your trade and your service area

    What you do, roughly what size of job you take on, and how far you will travel for one. It takes about a minute, and you can change any of it later.

  2. The week's notices get filtered against your profile

    Federal, state, county, city and special-district solicitations published that week are matched against what you told us. Most of them are not for you, and those are the ones you never see.

  3. Monday morning, you get the short list

    Each entry carries the agency, the deadline and days remaining, the estimated value, and a sentence on why it matched you. Anything closing that week sits at the top.

§ 02

A week's brief

This is the whole product. It arrives as an email, it is meant to be read in about two minutes, and then you get on with your day.

From Bidstream To [email protected] Mon 21 Sep 2026, 6:00 am

4 matches for Foothill Electric, week of 21 September

Electrical contracting, Sacramento and Placer counties, jobs within 45 miles

  1. Closing this week

    City of Roseville, California

    Fire Station 5 main switchgear replacement

    Solicitation
    RSV-26-0418
    Due
    Fri 25 Sep4 days left
    Estimated value
    $180,000 to $240,000
    Category
    Construction, electrical

    Why this matched you. Electrical scope inside your service area, at a contract size you have bid before. Prevailing wage applies. No bonding requirement above $250,000.

  2. Placer County, California

    On-call electrical maintenance, county facilities

    Solicitation
    PC-FS-26-114
    Due
    Fri 9 Oct21 days left
    Estimated value
    $75,000 to $150,000 a year
    Category
    On-call services

    Why this matched you. A three-year on-call agreement in a county you already work. The county's small business preference applies at your headcount.

  3. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Northern California

    Emergency generator transfer switch replacement

    Solicitation
    VA-262-26-Q-0087
    Due
    Fri 2 Oct14 days left
    Estimated value
    $300,000 to $450,000
    Category
    Federal, construction

    Why this matched you. Set aside for small business. Requires an active SAM registration, which takes a while to clear if you do not already have one.

  4. Worth watching

    Sacramento Municipal Utility District

    Pre-solicitation: fleet depot charging infrastructure

    Solicitation
    SMUD-PS-26-0092
    Due
    Not open yetExpected early 2027
    Estimated value
    Not published
    Category
    Special district, pre-solicitation

    Why this matched you. Nothing to bid on yet. Flagged because charging infrastructure keeps appearing in your two counties, and pre-solicitations are where you get to ask questions.

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Sample brief. The business, the opportunities, the solicitation numbers, the dates and the values are all illustrative, written to show the format. They are not live solicitations.

§ 03

Coverage

Federal agencies, plus state, county, city and special-district procurement across all fifty states and the District of Columbia. A representative spread of what that includes:

Federal

Every agency that posts to the governmentwide point of entry.

  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • General Services Administration
  • Bureau of Reclamation
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • Indian Health Service

State

Central procurement offices and the agencies that buy on their own authority.

  • Ohio Department of Administrative Services
  • Maine Bureau of General Services
  • Texas Facilities Commission
  • Georgia Department of Administrative Services
  • Montana State Procurement Bureau
  • Vermont Buildings and General Services

County

Purchasing departments, from the largest counties to the smallest.

  • Sierra County, California
  • Bexar County, Texas
  • Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
  • Chatham County, Georgia
  • Cache County, Utah
  • Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

City and town

Municipal notice boards, including towns with one purchasing clerk.

  • Dover, New Hampshire
  • Ada, Oklahoma
  • Marquette, Michigan
  • Sumter, South Carolina
  • Twin Falls, Idaho
  • Wilkesboro, North Carolina

Special district

Water, transit, fire, school, port and utility districts.

  • Central Arizona Water Conservation District
  • Pierce Transit, Washington
  • Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority
  • Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District
  • Lower Colorado River Authority
  • Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

Breadth is ours to worry about

Public bodies at every level publish procurement notices, on their own schedules and in their own formats. Keeping up with that is the part of this that is work, and it is not your job.

Narrowness is what you get

Your brief covers your service area and nothing else. A contractor working two counties sees those two counties, plus the federal work that reaches them.

Bidstream is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any agency named on this page. Agency names appear here only to describe what the brief covers.

§ 04

What makes the brief worth opening

  • Filtered to your trade and your radius

    Not a category page you have to scan. The brief is built for one business, and a job three hours outside your range never reaches it.

  • One email a week, not a dashboard

    There is nothing to log into and no streak to keep. A weekly email is a habit a small business can actually hold on to, which is the whole reason the service works this way.

  • Deadlines and value up front

    Every entry leads with the due date, the days remaining and the estimated value, so you can decide whether to read the rest of it.

  • Match reasons in plain English

    Each opportunity says why it was picked for you, in a sentence. When the reason is thin, you can skip it in two seconds, which is the point.

§ 05

What it costs, and the catch

Bidstream is free. The honest question is what we get out of it.

What is in it for us

The notices are public records, and the filtering is automated, so each additional subscriber costs us close to nothing. Bidstream is run by Modern Zen, which builds software for businesses that go after public work.

Being on good terms with the businesses that read it is worth more to us than charging them would be. That is the whole arrangement, and if it ever changes you will hear it from us first.

What does not happen

  • We do not sell or rent your information.
  • We do not resell you to anyone as a lead.
  • No third-party trackers, on this site or in the brief.
  • No card, now or later.
  • One click unsubscribes, from any brief.

§ 06

Get the weekly brief

Tell us what you do and where you work. The first brief goes out the following Monday morning.

§ 07

Questions

Where does the data come from?

Public procurement notices, published by the agencies themselves: the federal governmentwide point of entry, state procurement portals, county and city purchasing pages, and special-district notice boards. Nothing is taken from behind a login, and nothing is bought from a data broker.

How does personalization work?

You tell us your trade, roughly what size of contract you take on, and how far you will travel for a job. Each week's notices are matched against that profile, and the brief carries only what clears the bar. Two electricians in different counties get different briefs.

What happens in a week with no good matches?

The brief says so. A short brief that tells you there was one worth reading is more useful than a long one padded out to look busy. Some weeks are quiet, particularly around the end of a fiscal year.

Can I change my profile or unsubscribe?

Both links sit at the bottom of every brief. Change your radius, add a trade, or narrow your contract size whenever the work changes. Unsubscribing takes one click and asks you for no reason.

Do you sell my data?

No. We do not sell it, rent it, or pass it to partners, and your details are not resold as a lead. The brief carries no third-party tracking, and neither does this site.

Why is it free?

The underlying notices are public records and the filtering is automated, so each additional subscriber costs us very little. Modern Zen builds software for businesses that chase public work, and being useful to those businesses is worth more to us than a subscription would be. If that ever changes, you will hear it from us before anything else does.