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, on a flat-rate per-bid model built for their reality.
Clients · all 50 states
Won for clients
Team members
America’s fastest-growing
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, hourly billing, 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: flat-rate pricing instead of hourly meters, 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.
Flat-rate pricing forces us to be efficient. It’s also the only honest way to do this work.
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 are growing fast. Team members who joined early have grown with us. We promote from within and celebrate wins loudly.
The people who
make it happen.
“The Bid Lab's first and longest-standing project manager.”
“Anchors The Bid Lab's writing with calm focus and friendly rigor.”
“Our process lead — owns the rhythm of every proposal from first pitch to final submission.”
“Brings editorial precision to every document — grammar, tone, and brand consistency.”
“Brings legal precision and compliance rigor to every bid.”
“Federal procurement insider — wrote statements of work for the FBI.”
20+ specialists across writing, design, research, project management, and AI engineering — every bid backed by the full bench.
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.
Every proposal we touch goes through the two of us. Nine years in, it still does.
Maurice & Jordan Harary · Co-Founders
Co-founded The Bid Lab in 2017. Built the company's proposal methodology from the ground up and now leads strategy, AI platform development, and the Bid Banana product. A subject-matter expert 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. Built the company's brand voice and editorial standards from day one and now leads operations, marketing, HR, and strategic vision. The driving force behind The Bid Lab's growth into an Inc. 5000 firm serving 500+ clients across all 50 states.
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