What Happened and What is Ahead?

On behalf of our entire BidPrime team, we hope that you had a safe, successful 2022 and are positioned for and looking forward to a rewarding 2023.

Over the course of the past year, BidPrime experienced continued growth in our ability to continually better serve you and your business. Along with making investments to expand our Austin-based Client Service team, we added new layers of curation to refine and enhance the opportunities you find through BidPrime. Our direct, personalized service and support to you is a top priority for our organization.

We made additional refinements to DocSearch, which we unveiled back in 2021 (read more below in Maximize BidPrime). DocSearch is a Premium Data add on that searches deep into our collection of bid specification documents and offers you the ability to perform quick searches of over 50 million indexed documents. Contact your Account Manager to see how you can quickly search for terms, brands, models, parts, qualifications etc., important to you by looking deep into bid documents.

At the beginning of last year, we launched Beacon, BidPrime's flagship E-Procurement service for government agencies to share and publish their bid and RFP opportunities. In this time we're proud to have built many new agency partnerships relying exclusively upon Beacon for their procurement needs.

You do not need to register for an account on Beacon to receive notices of RFPs posted on Beacon by agencies. As a BidPrime customer, we have ensured that your account is already automatically linked to opportunities within Beacon, by way of your BidPrime subscription. As a result, you are able to view and download documents posted by agencies on Beacon through your BidPrime account. And very soon, you can submit your electronic bid responses directly to agencies through your integrated BidPrime account.

Our common goal is to improve efficiency in the bidding process. We are making concerted efforts to spread the important message to the public sector, and it is resonating. Agencies are listening and improving their procurement processes. Just recently, we presented at California Association of Public Procurement Officials, Inc, and published pieces to the public sector about ’5 Reasons You Aren't Getting Enough RFP Responses.

We have new products planned for BidPrime this year related to Contract Intelligence and Future Opportunities. These products have been years in the making, and derived from feedback and conversations with our valued customers. We're very excited to roll these out and share these with our customers.

I also wanted to note that our team continues to closely monitor and evaluate the increasing number of programs and opportunities resulting from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). To date, there has only been approximately $120 billion allocated from the $1.2 trillion enacted from the bipartisan legislation. There is certain to be more to come. We expect most of these funds to be delivered and contracted through the State and Municipal public sector – agencies of all sizes.

To our clients who have been with us since our launch in 2009, and all who have joined us more recently, we thank you for your trust, support, and business. We continue to understand and respect that our successes and accomplishments are a direct result of our relationships with you and we look forward to serving you for many years to come.

Here’s to a great 2023 and stay tuned for more!

Stephen Hetzel

Operations Officer, Co-Founder