Find the public bids that fit. Price them with your suppliers.
Buyer24 watches agency portals and national tender feeds for open bids that match what you sell. When one is worth chasing, one click turns it into an RFQ to your suppliers, due before the agency's deadline.
Solicitations · Pole line hardware · TX
Checked this morning at 7:00
Distribution hardware, annual supply
City utility · closes in 12 days
Crossarms and insulators
County co-op · closes in 9 days
Guy wire and anchors
State agency · closes in 21 days
Pursue drafts an RFQ to your suppliers, due before the agency's deadline
Public demand is there. Finding it takes the week.
Public agencies buy a lot of what distributors sell, but their bids are spread across thousands of agency portals, national tender sites and notice emails. Finding the few that fit means checking the same sites every week.
When a good bid turns up, the clock is already running. To price it you need quotes from your own suppliers, and they need the bid documents, the quantities and a deadline that leaves you time to assemble the bid.
So most teams either spend hours a week searching, or only see the bids someone happens to forward them.
From open bid to supplier quotes
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Pick where to look
Choose from about 1,000 agencies across the US and Canada, plus SAM.gov, the EU's TED and the UK's Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. Add an agency that isn't listed by name or link, or forward its bid-notice emails.
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Say what you sell
A list per product line: the products or categories you supply, and the states you cover. Buyer24 checks it on weekday mornings and shows what's new.
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Work the list
Sort by closing date, hide bids that need a bond, a mandatory visit or a set-aside, and search by part number or NSN. Bids too close to their deadline to price are left out.
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Pursue the ones worth it
One click reads the listing and its documents and drafts an RFQ to your best-matched suppliers, with quotes due a day before the agency's deadline. Nothing is sent until you approve it.
What's included
Buyer24 does the searching and the supplier legwork. You decide what to bid on and submit it.
Agencies and national feeds
City, county, school, transit, utility and state portals, plus SAM.gov, TED, Find a Tender and Contracts Finder
Bid-notice emails
Agencies that only email their vendors get a forwarding address of their own; their notices become list rows
Lists that match what you sell
Keywords, states and closing dates, matched by meaning as well as by exact words
Documents read for you
Public bid documents are downloaded and read; files behind a vendor login you drop in yourself
Suppliers already matched
Pursue attaches the strongest matches from your supplier pool, or finds new ones when you ask
A deadline you can meet
Supplier quotes are due before the agency's deadline, with a how-to-bid checklist kept for you, never sent to suppliers
Buyer24 never signs in to agency portals, never bids for you and never sends an RFQ you haven't approved.
It reads what agencies publish, and drafts the work for you to check.
Public bids FAQ
Does Buyer24 submit the bid for me?
No. Pursue drafts an RFQ to your own suppliers so you can price the bid. You assemble the bid and submit it on the agency's portal, the way you do today.
Is anything sent without me?
No. The drafted RFQ follows your organization's approval settings, and nothing ever goes to the agency.
What does checking cost?
Lists are checked and matched without AI, so checks, searching and new-bid alerts use no credits. Pursue doesn't either.
What if an agency isn't in the catalog?
Type its name or paste its bids page. Buyer24 looks for its bid portal; if it can't read it, you can get the agency's notices by email instead, or ask the setup agent to work out how to read the page.
Can I use the bid data subscription I already pay for?
Yes. Connect a HigherGov saved search with your own API key, and its results appear in your lists next to everything else.
Step-by-step setup is in the Solicitations guide.
Answering a public bid, step by step
What the work looks like once a bid is worth pursuing: the supplier quotes, the rules that decide whether you can bid, and the forms.
- How to get supplier quotes for a government bid
Working your suppliers against the agency's clock.
- Pricing a public bid with your suppliers' quotes
From the bid schedule to a priced, checked line list.
- What is an approved source on DIBBS
When a distributor's part can and cannot be quoted.
- Quoting DLA DIBBS solicitations as a reseller
Approved sources, CAGE codes and bidding with exception.
- What is the nonmanufacturer rule
The limit on reselling under a small-business set-aside.
- Sourcing under the nonmanufacturer rule
Picking suppliers that keep a set-aside bid compliant.
- Can a small-business reseller bid on a set-aside supply contract
Who qualifies, and on what terms.
- What is a CLIN in a government solicitation
Reading the line items you have to price.
- How public sector procurement works
The rules behind the bids you are answering.
