Every opportunity, structured.
Dates, values, and set-asides extracted from the notices you already collect, with citations.
Chase the right work.
Specset extracts every opportunity from the bid boards and notices you track, then reads the full invitation and returns the damages, bonding, set-asides, and schedule risks, cited, before your estimators commit a week to the wrong pursuit.
Pursue
With conditions2 pricing decisions · 0 disqualifiers
AI screenEst. value$18M–$24M
Duration26 months
Liq. damages$4,500 / day
Bid bond10%
Price these in
Night-only work in the rail envelope, BNSF flagger present00 73 00 §1.6
No escalation provision across the full duration00 72 00 §9.1
Bid due Oct 14, 2:00 PM · Pre-bid Sep 26, mandatory · RFIs close Oct 3
Obligations, not summaries.
Damages, bonds, wage rates, and work windows pulled from the whole package, not the first pass.
A screen, not the decision.
Ranked, cited flags and a recommendation. The go / no-go stays in your war room.
Trusted by the teams delivering public work
“We used to find the killer clause after we'd committed the estimate. Now it's the first thing we see.”
400+Bid opportunities tracked and screened on Specset
20,000Pages in a single document set, covered end to end in one run
01 · From notice to no-go
Read like your best estimator, at intake volume.
Screening quality collapses when the pipeline is full. Specset reads every invitation at the depth you reserve for the ones you already like.
01 · IntakeOwner bid board · Oct.pdf3 extracted
Ridgeview Center, Bldg BDue Oct 14 · DBE 18% · $18M–$24M
Pier 4 fender replacementDue Oct 21 · SB set-aside
Lift station 7 rehabDue Nov 2 · pre-bid Oct 12
Drop in bid boards, procurement notices, and RFPs. Every current opportunity is extracted with its dates, set-asides, and value, cited to the page it came from.
02 · The read
The full invitationInstructions to bidders · special provisions · plans
- Damages, bonds, and retainage
- Work windows and site constraints
- Set-asides and wage requirements
- Unusual specs and owner formats
The agent reads the whole package the way your chief estimator would on a good week, not a keyword pass over the first hundred pages.
03 · The screen
2 flags need pricing decisions
2 obligations to staff for
Everything else is standard
Flags come back ranked and cited, with a recommendation your team can argue with. The go / no-go call is still made in your war room, just with the killer clause on the table first.
02 · When the answer is go
The screen becomes the pursuit.
The documents you screened are already a project record. The pursuit work starts from it instead of starting over.
Line items cited to the documents.
Build the estimate against the same record, with quantities and assumptions referenced to the drawings and specs that justify them.
Your proposal shell, filled from the record.
Approach narratives and compliance matrices drafted into your template against the instructions to bidders.
Explore document generationOne pipeline, every deadline.
Bid due dates, pre-bid walks, and RFI deadlines extracted into one board, so pursuits stop dying to a missed addendum.
Common questions
What teams ask about bid screening.
01What documents can it screen?
Bid boards and procurement notices for extraction, and full invitation packages for the screen itself: instructions to bidders, general and supplementary conditions, special provisions, wage determinations, and the plans. Multi-opportunity documents are split into one structured record per opportunity.
02What does the screen actually flag?
The obligations that change the bid: liquidated damages, bonding and surety requirements, DBE and small-business goals, work-window and site restrictions, unusual specifications, and missing provisions like escalation. Every flag cites the paragraph it came from.
03Does Specset make the go / no-go decision?
No. It returns ranked, cited flags and a recommendation your team can argue with. The decision stays with your estimating leadership, made with the risks on the table instead of discovered mid-estimate.
04How do opportunities get into the pipeline?
Upload the bid board, notice, or RFP and the agent extracts each current opportunity with its number, due date, pre-bid, RFI deadline, estimated value, and set-aside status. Expired and awarded listings are skipped automatically.
05Can it handle public-work and DOT formats?
Yes. Caltrans, WSDOT, FDOT, UFGS, and BNSF formats are already in production, along with special provisions amended into standard sections. Owner-specific formats are the norm in public work, and the screen is built for them.
06What happens if we decide to pursue?
The same record carries forward. The documents you screened become the project record for estimating line items cited to the drawings, drafting proposal sections from your templates, and running the delivery workflows once you win.
Start with a live invitation
Screen the bid sitting on your desk.
Send the invitation package you're deciding on this week. We'll return the flags, cited, before your go / no-go meeting.