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Product

What's new in Offra: a free first bid, a bid/no-bid checklist and a due date on every task

A free first bid on the full Business plan, a bid/no-bid checklist, deadline reminders and a due date on every task: this week's changes to Offra, and why.

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Product

The package moved after you read it

Closing dates move, amendments land, a Sources Sought becomes a solicitation. What Offra records when a public notice changes, and how to be told for free.

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Bidding strategy

Making the bid/no-bid call in twenty minutes

Bid-writing capacity is the scarcest resource in any firm that bids. A short, honest triage on day one protects it better than any amount of effort in week three.

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Bidding strategy

When the subcontractor quotes arrive last

Sub quotes land in the final hours and always will. The fix is not chasing them earlier — it is structuring the estimate so a late quote drops into a prepared slot.

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Compliance

The dates in a tender that are not the deadline

Every bid team tracks the closing date. The dates that actually constrain a bid are the four or five before it, and they are rarely on anyone's calendar.

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Estimating

The quantities to re-check before you price

There is never time to re-measure a takeoff before close. There is always time to re-check five categories of quantity that go wrong far more often than the rest.

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Estimating

What an addendum actually changes in your estimate

An addendum changes the work and the paperwork at the same time. Repricing the line items it names is the easy half — here is the half that gets missed.

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