Bid Hub

Know why you win.
Know why you lose.

Caliche catches your bids from public tabs overnight and builds your record: the full bidder ladder on every job, every loss diagnosed (recoverable, over-priced, or not your fight), who keeps beating you and by how much — and an AI Bid Coach that's read every bid you've made and tells you exactly what to fix. Your Track Record, your Scorecard, and your Coach — one place.

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▸ BID LEDGER ENGINE· 43 bids tracked · 19% win rate · $11.0M won↗ IMPORT BID TAB
WIN RATE
19%
8W · 35L
BIDS TRACKED
43
won or lost
VOLUME WON
$11.0M
captured
LEFT ON TABLE
$14.9M
avg overbid vs winner
AVG GAP
+24.5%
over winner on losses
▸ BID LEDGER · ALL · 43 ROWSMOST RECENT FIRST · click a row for the ladder
LOST
Water, Wastewater & Drainage to Serve Meridiana Sec. 26-A
Brazoria County MUD No. 57 · Jul 9, 2025 ▾ hide ladder
OUR BID
$1,625,492
GAP vs WINNER
+1.2%
▸ BID TABULATION · 4 BIDDERSWIDE SPREAD · 78%
01Principal Services🏆 WON↓ low$1.61M
02Rodriguez Construction+0.8%$1.62M
03Your Company▸ YOU+1.2%$1.63M
04Elite Construction+77.8%$2.85M
Winner: Principal Services at $1,605,546. You were +1.2% over.
WON
MUD 47 Excavation, Paving & Grading — Avellino Sec. Two
Brazoria County MUD No. 47 · Apr 15, 2025 ▸ bidder ladder
OUR BID
$926,192
LOST
East Kuykendahl Storm Sewer, Detention & Hughes Gully Channel (Rebid)
Dowdell P.U.D. · Aug 4, 2025 ▸ bidder ladder
OUR BID
$5,001,475
GAP vs WINNER
+6.1%
AWAITING
Hwy 6 Sanitary Sewer Extension — Package B
City of Pearland · Jun 15, 2025
OUR BID
$540,000
▸ Who have you been bidding against?Your competitive record · Texas civil

We can name your rival.

We index public Texas civil bid tabs statewide — and we know who keeps showing up across the table from you. Type your company and meet your top rival.

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Your rivals · where you land high · how to beat them — locked.

Caliche shows you exactly who keeps beating you, where your number came in high, and how far to sharpen — so you stop guessing and start bidding to win.

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All bidders

Prices read from every bid tab

Item-level

Spread vs. the winning bid

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Win/loss metrics tracked

Your bids

Your record, not industry benchmarks

Win/Loss Intelligence

Every loss, already diagnosed.

A pile of losses is useless. Caliche sorts them into the only three that matter — recoverable (you were in range, just sharpen), over-priced (your markup is wrong for the segment), and not your fight — then shows who keeps beating you, by how much, and the project size where you actually win.

▸ LOSS DIAGNOSIS · THE LINEWhy you lost 34 bids — bucketed by how recoverable each was
IN WINNING BAND
8
within 5% of winner
Recoverable. Bid less aggressively next time — you've proven you're in range.
ABOVE BAND
10
5–15% over winner
Over-priced. Markup is too high for this segment — review your default tier.
WAY ABOVE
16
15%+ over winner
Uncompetitive. Wrong scope mix or wrong agency — may not be your fight.
▸ COMPETITOR LEDGER · 6 TRACKED
Who you face most — and how close you run to each
01De Crosta ConstructionCLOSE2 h2h · 4.9% gap
02On Par Civil ServicesCLOSE2 h2h · −9.1% gap
03Bull-G Construction2 h2h · 43.4% gap
04Principal ServicesCLOSE1 h2h · 1.2% gap
05Engitex LLC1 h2h · 8.0% gap
CLOSE = within 5% on average — one tier adjustment could flip it.
▸ PROJECT-SIZE SWEET SPOT
Your win rate by bid size
Under $500K0% (0/1)
$500K – $1MBEST33% (5/15)
$1M – $2M6% (1/17)
$2M+20% (2/10)

Caliche Bid Coach

PROFESSIONAL

An AI coach that's read
every bid you've ever made.

No estimator alive has the time to study your whole bid history and tell you, plainly, where the money's leaking. Caliche does — a written coaching report on your real outcomes: what's working, where the pricing gap actually lives (markup vs. labor burden vs. sub packages), and a specific 30-day move. It pulls out trackable recommendations, refreshes when you check in, and remembers what it told you last time — so it can hold you to it. That's scope no contractor has ever had on themselves.

CALICHE BID COACH· 43 bids analyzed · just generated↺ HISTORY⟳ REFRESH
# Your Company — Bid Performance Coaching Report

The $10.95M in won volume is still on the board, and eight wins across 43 decided bids in concentrated Brazoria County MUD territory is a repeatable model worth protecting. The geographic discipline you've built in this footprint is a genuine competitive asset. Keep it.

The 24.5% average loss gap hasn't moved — treat that as a structural alarm, not a bidding-day problem. At $2.01M average bid size that's ~$493,000 per loss, and across 35 losses it points well upstream of markup: how labor burden is loaded, how sub packages are assembled, whether contingency is stacked before overhead. The fact that it hasn't changed since the last report means the root hasn't been touched yet…

▸ READ THE FULL REPORT — competitor breakdown + your 30-day action plan
✓ OPEN RECOMMENDATIONS — TRACKED WEEK TO WEEK2 ACTIVE
Complete the MUD 57 bid-tab comparison against the low bidders.
Pull your two most recent MUD 57 loss tabs, set them against the winner line for line, and flag every item where you exceeded the low bidder by 15%+. Find the 3–4 items driving most of the $493,000 gap.
MUD 57MID TIERMUD
Document sub-quote spreads on your next Brazoria County bid.
Record the spread between your highest and lowest sub quote for every major scope before you submit. If your lowest runs 20%+ over what the winner needs, the issue is vendor-list depth, not margin.
MID TIERMUD

The Coach reads your full bid history, refreshes itself when you check in (or on demand), and remembers what it told you last time — so every report tracks whether you closed the gap.

Caliche priced 1,870 real Texas bids blind and landed a median ~1% over the winner in Houston (its deepest market), ~3% statewide — while the typical competing bid ran ~11% over. Your Scorecard assembles your own record — your wins, your losses, and where each loss landed vs. the winner — into a branded PDF with the Coach's read: surety-, GC-, and owner-ready.

Where our blind price lands vs the winning bid
Houston · our deepest market~1% over
Statewide~3% over
The typical competing bid · what everyone else does~11% over
1,870 real Texas bids · priced blind · leak-free · reproducible (June 2026)
→ see the method + the full per-job spread

How it works

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We catch your bids automatically

When public bid tabs get posted across Texas and your company name appears as a bidder, Caliche catches it overnight and queues it for your review. Or drop a tab in yourself if you have it sooner.

02

Confirm or deny each match

We surface the parsed data — every bidder, every price, the outcome — and ask if it is you. Confirm to record into your tracker. Deny if it is a false positive. Your stats only build from matches you confirm.

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See where you're leaving money — or losing jobs

Over time, the tracker shows you which scopes you're consistently winning, where you're getting beat, and how much you've left on the table vs. how much you've captured.

The long game

Every bid makes
the next one sharper.

Bid Hub isn't just a record-keeping tool. Every winning tab you upload sharpens the market data the engine prices from — and your Coach learns your patterns as your outcomes land. Over time, you see where your cost structure is competitive and where you need to adjust, with the market underneath you getting deeper every cycle.

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Submit a bid

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Upload the bid tab after opening

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See your spread vs. winner

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Adjust pricing posture next job

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Win rate improves over time

Built for the way bid results actually work

Win/loss tracking is on every plan. The item-level analysis, competitor ledger, and Bid Coach live on Professional.

Auto-match from nightly bid tabs

STARTER

When public bid tabs post statewide and your company name is on one, Caliche catches it overnight — your wins and losses land in the ledger without manual entry. Drop a tab in yourself to add one immediately.

Win / loss recording

STARTER

Every bid logged as won, lost, or awaiting result, with your price next to the winner's. Win rate, volume won, and amount left on the table build automatically over time.

Item-level spread vs the winner

PROFESSIONAL

The bidder ladder shows every bidder's price, line by line — so you see exactly which items lost the job, not just the total. How your prices compare to the market.

Competitor ledger

PROFESSIONAL

Who you face most and how close you run to each. Caliche builds a profile of each competitor's pricing behavior — and flags near-misses you could have won.

Win rate by scope & project size

PROFESSIONAL

Your win rate broken down by trade and bid size — find your sweet spot and the scopes where your cost structure needs attention.

Caliche Bid Coach

PROFESSIONAL

A written coaching report on your bid performance — what's working, where the pricing gap is, and what to do next. Refreshes as you log outcomes. Carry-forward recommendations track week to week.

Feed the market, sharpen your edge

Winners' bids are public record after award. Upload the .xlsx on any loss — those unit prices feed the market database and sharpen your own pricing accuracy on future bids. Everyone benefits, you benefit most.

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