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Pilot-first RFP response, for partner agencies

Everyone else sends a PDF.
You send a working site.

BowerBid equips your sales team to find more website redesign RFPs — and answer each one with a working pilot site, a complete proposal, and a narrated video tour.

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A bowerbird perched on a branch — the BowerBid mascot
3,315
RFPs tracked
18
Proposals shipped
25
Pilots built
5
Partner agencies
A bowerbird collecting the brightest blue objects
The bower

The bird collects the best.
You pick from the brightest.

The satin bowerbird sweeps the forest floor for the bluest objects it can find — feathers, berries, bottle caps — and carries them back to its bower. BowerBid does the same across dozens of procurement portals, university sites, library RFP pages, and nonprofit grant boards.

Every RFP is fit-scored, tier-labeled, and archived with its original PDF. Your team sees a curated shortlist — the brightest objects worth bidding on — not everything.

Government portalsUniversitiesLibrariesNonprofitsK-12 districts

What your team gets.

Tools to find the deals, deliverables that win them, and one place to run it all from.

Find more

Procurement portals were never built to be watched. Your team gets a scored shortlist instead of an endless dump — tuned to the sectors and stacks you build on, or wired into the RFP pipeline you already run.

Answer better

This is the part that wins. Every bid goes out with a working pilot app built on the issuer’s real content, a complete proposal, and a narrated video tour of both — a response format most competitors don’t offer.

Run it anywhere

Track every RFP, deadline, and deliverable in a portal scoped to your agency alone — and drive the whole thing from Slack or Discord, so your team adopts nothing new.

The shift

Everyone sends a proposal.
We send a website.

Evaluation committees read a dozen decks that all say the same things. Only one of them comes with a URL.

Bidding the usual way

  • A PDF full of promises the buyer has to take on faith
  • Boilerplate case studies from projects they can’t click
  • Screenshots of somebody else’s website
  • Accessibility answered as a paragraph, not a score
  • Weeks of drafting before the buyer sees anything real
  • Bids tracked across email threads and spreadsheets

Pilot-first

  • A working site at a public URL, built for their content
  • Their own pages, imported from their existing site
  • A pilot the evaluation committee can open and click
  • Live a11y / SEO / performance audits against the deploy
  • The demo exists before the proposal is written
  • Every bid, deadline, and deliverable in one portal
What we’ve built

Tools to find them.
Deliverables that win them.

Discovery keeps your team in more deals. Delivery — a working pilot app, a complete proposal, and a narrated video tour — is what makes each one hard to beat. None of this is a roadmap; every piece below is in production behind the bids we ship.

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RFP Discovery

The Pipeline

Finding website RFPs means checking dozens of procurement portals that were never built to be checked. Most agencies find out about a bid when it’s already too late to build anything real. The pipeline sweeps government, education, library, and nonprofit sources, pulls the actual PDF, and scores each one against what your agency actually builds.

  • Sweeps gov · edu · library · nonprofit sources
  • Tunable to your sectors and stacks — or wired into a pipeline you already run
  • Fit-scored and tier-labeled — a shortlist, not an endless dump
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Working Pilot

The Demo That Ships First

A proposal asks the buyer to imagine the result. A pilot shows them. We crawl the issuer’s existing site, import their real pages into a real CMS, and deploy a working demo at a public URL — before the proposal is written. The evaluation committee doesn’t read about the redesign; they click through it.

  • Their real content, imported from their live site
  • Drupal + Astro, WordPress + Astro, or Canvas — your stack
  • A public demo URL, live before the proposal is submitted
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Proposal Package

Everything the RFP Asked For

Bids get thrown out on technicalities — a missing form, an unaddressed section, a page-limit overrun. Every proposal we ship is audited against the RFP’s required sections and scoring rubric before it goes out, and arrives as a complete package: PDF, HTML deck, statement of work, and a narrated walkthrough.

  • Gap-audited against required sections + evaluation rubric
  • PDF, HTML deck, SOW, and demo video in one package
  • Submission email and required-items checklist drafted for you
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Video Tour

The Ninety-Second Version

The person who scores your bid is not always the person who opens your links. A narrated video tour of the pilot and the proposal — real screen capture, mixed with the key slides, word-synced captions — gets the whole argument across to whoever ends up watching it in the review meeting. Almost nobody else sends one.

  • Real screen capture of the live pilot, not a slideshow
  • Narrated, captioned, and branded to the bidding agency
  • Hosted and linked from the proposal and the portal
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Compliance

Accessibility You Can Prove

Public-sector RFPs are won and lost on WCAG conformance, and most responses answer it with a paragraph of assurances. Ours answers it with a number. Every pilot ships a dashboard that runs accessibility, SEO, and performance audits against the deployed site — not a local build — and publishes the results.

  • WCAG 2.1 AA verified with axe against the live deploy
  • Accessibility, SEO, and performance scored per template
  • Broken-link and touch-target gates before anything ships
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Portal & Chat

Run It Where You Already Work

Most agencies track bids in a spreadsheet that goes stale, a chat thread nobody can find, and one person’s memory. Your portal holds every RFP assigned to you, every deadline, and every deliverable — and the whole thing is drivable from Slack or Discord, so your sales team adopts nothing new.

  • Tenant-scoped — your bids are invisible to other agencies
  • Deadline alerts and bid triage answered from chat, no login
  • Every deliverable link — proposal, pilot, and video tour

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth a thousand meetings.”

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How it works

From RFP discovery to submitted proposal — the full flow.

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We find RFPs that fit

The discovery pipeline sweeps dozens of sources — government portals, university procurement, library RFP pages, nonprofit grant sites. Every RFP is fit-scored, tier-labeled, and archived with its original PDF.

2

You review + go/no-go

Your agency sees a curated list of RFPs assigned to you. Fit score, deadline, budget range, tier — everything you need to decide whether to bid. One click to start a bid response.

3

We ship a working pilot

The proposal system builds a live pilot site at a public URL — real content imported from the issuer's existing site, on your stack (Drupal+Astro, WP+Astro, or Canvas). The pilot IS the pitch.

4

You submit + track

Full proposal package: PDF, HTML deck, SOW, narrated demo video. Your agency tracks the submission, deadlines, outreach, and change requests in the portal — no more Slack threads or email chains.

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