Big bids
weren’t built for
small businesses.
So we built The Bid Lab.
For decades, RFP-driven contracts have been dominated by a handful of large organizations with in-house proposal teams and procurement consultants on retainer. The Bid Lab exists to level that playing field, giving small and mid-sized businesses the same Fortune 500-grade proposal expertise, priced for their reality: estimated up front, no surprises.
Clients · all 50 states
Won for clients
Bids submitted
Fastest-growing companies list
From one bad consultant
to $500M in wins.
The Bid Lab started where most bid stories end: a botched proposal, a missed opportunity, and a small business locked out of a contract it should have won. The fix that night was simple. The real question was bigger: how many other small companies were losing to bad consultants, runaway invoices, and proposals written by people who had never actually won a bid?
That question became a firm. Since 2017, The Bid Lab has been the only RFP consulting practice built end-to-end for small and mid-sized businesses: a price you know before work begins instead of a bill you discover after, experienced writers and project managers who’ve won before, and a process that treats compliance as the price of entry, not the final deliverable.
In 2022, we launched Bid Banana, our AI-powered discovery platform, so finding the right bids became as efficient as winning them. Today, AI accelerates every step of our work. Humans still own every outcome.
Four convictions that drive everything.
Procurement was designed for big firms with full proposal departments. We level the field.
Every output is shaped, refined, and signed off by a named consultant. No bots issue final answers.
Anyone can answer the questions. We’re hired to position the answer so it wins.
Every engagement begins with an estimate. It keeps us efficient, and it keeps your budget yours.
The path from one bad RFP to here.
Maurice and Jordan launch The Bid Lab after fixing a botched proposal the night before a deadline. First clients are small businesses in the New York metro area.
First landmark wins validate the model: small businesses can compete for and win significant contracts with the right support.
Bid Banana launches — proprietary AI-powered RFP discovery platform with 1.2M+ bid opportunities indexed. A game-changer for the industry.
Named to the Inc. 5000 — one of America's fastest-growing private companies, recognized for sustained growth in the RFP consulting space.
500+ clients. $500M+ won. All 50 states. Still family-run. Still obsessed with winning.
Why clients trust us
with every bid.
Anyone can do the job. Only we do it with the right attitude — even when deadlines are brutal and requirements are ruthless.
When we say we'll do something, it's done. A named human consultant owns every outcome — no bots signing off.
Every firm works differently. We adapt to your processes, schedules, and team without sacrificing quality or compliance.
AI accelerates us. Our people perfect every output. Best-in-class tools combined with human judgment — that's our edge.
We share what we know, surface problems early, and communicate clearly — even when the news is hard. Especially then.
We're growing fast, and every new hire deepens the bench behind your bid. The people on your proposal have done this before, because we promote from within.
One point of contact.
A full bench behind them.
Every engagement is led by a dedicated project manager — your single point of contact from kickoff to award. Behind them, a full team scales to whatever your bid demands.
“You talk to one person. We chase everything else.”
“We read the parts of the RFP nobody wants to.”
“Your expertise, in the words the scoring sheet is looking for.”
“Evaluators score content. They remember polish.”
“The same engineering behind Bid Banana works on your bid.”
Nothing goes out the door without review — every engagement, every time.
A husband-wife team.
A unified vision.
Maurice and Jordan have been business partners since 2017 and life partners for longer. Two NYU Stern graduates who started The Bid Lab on a single client crisis — and built it into the only RFP consulting firm dedicated entirely to proposals.
We started this because a small business had no one in their corner on an RFP. Nine years later, that’s still the whole idea: give our clients the tools and experience big firms take for granted, and keep finding them the next edge.
Maurice & Jordan Harary · Co-Founders
Co-founded The Bid Lab in 2017 and has led the client side ever since, running the service team and building the technology behind it, including Bid Banana. The service and the software sharpen each other, and he sits where they meet.
Quoted in HubSpot, Featured.com, and Industry Leaders on RFP strategy and procurement.
🎓 NYU Stern School of Business
Co-founded The Bid Lab in 2017 and built the company around the work: operations, marketing, sales, and the brand's creative direction all run through her. That foundation carried a two-person idea to an Inc. 5000 firm serving 500+ clients in all 50 states.
🎓 NYU Stern School of BusinessWe’re growing — come build with us.
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