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You start with a free consultation where we review your business, your goals, and any upcoming opportunities. We assess your eligibility, recommend the right service, and give you a written estimate. Once you're ready to move forward, we get to work. Most clients have a proposal in progress within a week of their first call.

We charge $245 per hour with a 10-hour minimum (smaller engagements are $300/hour). No retainers, no monthly fees, and if you'd rather have one number for the whole bid, we quote a custom fixed price at your consultation.

Immediately. We've worked on emergency bids in as little as 24 hours (not recommended!), but most successful proposals take weeks to do right. The sooner we start, the stronger your submission. If you have a deadline coming, contact us today.

Your written estimate is based on the bid's complexity: sections, attachments, technical depth, evaluation criteria, stakes. Most single-volume bids run 10–20 hours; multi-section bids 20–30; complex and federal bids 31+. We confirm your estimate, along with an optional not-to-exceed cap, before any work begins.

Your estimate is all-inclusive for the scoped work: no hidden costs, and your cap is honored. If the RFP itself changes materially, through amendments, rescopes, or extended timelines, we re-estimate, and you approve the new number before we continue.

Yes. Book a free consultation and we'll review your RFP and confirm your written estimate before any work begins. Most consultations are scheduled within 24 hours.

We need the RFP document and background on your business: capabilities, past performance, key differentiators, relevant certifications. The more you share upfront, the stronger the proposal. We guide you through our intake process step by step.

Always. Every proposal goes through a client review round before submission. You approve the final document. We submit with your explicit sign-off.

No one can guarantee a win: the decision belongs to the evaluators. What we guarantee is a fully compliant, professionally written, strategically differentiated proposal submitted on time. Our clients consistently outperform competitors because of our process.

AI powers key steps: RFP analysis, compliance matrix generation, proposal drafting, and win-probability scoring. But every AI output is reviewed and refined by a named human consultant before it reaches you or your evaluators. AI accelerates. Humans decide. That's not a disclaimer: it's our competitive advantage.

We have case studies across 18+ industries: government, healthcare, technology, education, legal, finance, marketing, consulting, real estate, property development, nonprofit, tourism, event services, corporate services, professional development, staff augmentation, risk management, and security & monitoring. If there are RFPs in your industry, we have experience there.

Both. We handle federal, state, and local government procurement as well as corporate, nonprofit, and healthcare RFPs. Competitive bidding is competitive bidding: our methodology works across all of it.

Both. Bid Banana, our AI-powered search platform at bidbanana.thebidlab.com, lets you discover and filter 1.2M+ bid opportunities on your own. Or bring us an RFP you've already found, and our Bid Manager service handles the full response.

Bid Banana is The Bid Lab's proprietary AI-powered RFP search platform. It indexes 1.2M+ bid opportunities across active RFPs, closed bids, and award data — searchable across 4,000+ entities in all 50 states. Includes AI document analysis, company profiles, saved searches with email alerts, and a mobile app. $49.99/month flat pricing with a 7-day free trial. Available at bidbanana.thebidlab.com.

Yes. Documents uploaded to our AI workflows are processed in memory and never stored long-term. We publish a formal AI Use Policy (effective June 1, 2026) that governs exactly how we handle your data. Human consultants review every AI output before it reaches you or your evaluators.