BidscopevsBidspeed
All fifty states and Canada — not one, three, five, or ten.
If you're not using Bidscope, you're missing perfect-fit opportunities.
Most tools watch bid portals. Bidscope's agentic crawler also goes where there is no portal — into school district Google Drives, town and county websites, legal notices in local newspapers, and council and board packets. A solicitation that never reaches a portal never reaches a portal-based tool. It's still on Bidscope.
The short answer
Bidspeed sells state and local coverage by the state — one on Bronze, three on Silver, five on Gold and ten on its top Diamond tier, with user seats capped to match and a price that comes out of a discovery meeting — while Bidscope is a published $45 per seat per month covering federal, all fifty states and Canada, with AI that scores every opportunity against a plain-language description of your business.
- States you can see
- BidscopeAll 50, plus Canada, on every plan
- Bidspeed1 on Bronze, 3 on Silver, 5 on Gold, 10 on Diamond
- Where opportunities come from
- BidscopeAn agentic crawler over 50,000+ sources — district Drives, county sites, newspaper notices
- BidspeedFederal feeds, plus state and local within your selected states
- How you get matched
- BidscopeA plain-language profile; AI scores every opportunity for fit
- BidspeedSearch filters and alerts
- What it costs
- Bidscope$45/month per seat — published, sign up online
- BidspeedSchedule a discovery meeting to receive a proposal
Bidspeed vs Bidscope, feature by feature
Where a cell says a plan name, that's the Bidscope tier the feature starts on.
| Capability |  | Bidspeed |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | ||
| Federal solicitations | BidscopeYes | BidspeedYes |
| States covered | BidscopeAll 50 | Bidspeed1 to 10, by tier |
| Counties, cities, school districts and special districts | BidscopeYes | BidspeedWithin your selected states |
| Canadian opportunities | BidscopeYes | BidspeedNo |
| Agencies with no bid portal (district Drives, county sites, newspaper notices) | BidscopeReached by agentic crawler | BidspeedNo |
| Exclusive opportunities from partner buyers | BidscopeYes | BidspeedNo |
| Finding the right bids | ||
| AI semantic matching with a relevance score | BidscopeYes | BidspeedSearch filters and alerts |
| Setup from a plain-language description of your business | BidscopeYes | BidspeedNo |
| Several matching profiles for separate business lines | BidscopeYes | BidspeedNo |
| Tune matching by rejecting a bad match | BidscopeYes | BidspeedNo |
| Filter by set-aside, budget, radius and local preference | Bidscope30+ filters | BidspeedAdvanced search filters |
| Key details pulled from attachments into structured fields | BidscopeBudget, bonds, insurance, set-asides, pre-bid | BidspeedCompliance matrix |
| Daily email digest | BidscopeYour matches, ranked by fit | BidspeedDaily opportunity updates |
| Working the pipeline | ||
| Kanban pipeline with assignments and comments | BidscopeYes | BidspeedPipeline management |
| Users on your account | BidscopeAny number, per seat — 10 included on Professional | Bidspeed1 to 10, by tier |
| REST API | BidscopeProfessional plan | BidspeedNo |
| MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other AI clients | BidscopeProfessional plan | BidspeedNo |
| CRM integrations (Salesforce, Pipedrive) | BidscopeBusiness plan | BidspeedNo |
| Terms | ||
| Price published on the website | BidscopeYes | BidspeedNo |
| Sign up online without a discovery meeting | BidscopeYes | BidspeedNo |
| Month-to-month option | Bidscope$90/month | BidspeedNo |
| Free plan | BidscopeYes | BidspeedFree trial |
| Percentage of your winnings | BidscopeNone | BidspeedNone |
Why teams switch from Bidspeed
The reasons people give us on onboarding calls, in the order we hear them.
We go where the bids actually are
Bidspeed's state and local coverage is whatever fits inside the states your tier allows. Bidscope runs an agentic crawler across the whole country: into school district Google Drives, town and county sites that were never built to be scraped, legal notices in local newspapers, council and board packets. That's how we carry more state and local solicitations than any other commercially available tool — and the perfect-fit bid you never saw is usually one that never reached a portal at all.
50,000+ sources daily, including agencies with no bid portal
Fifty states, not ten
Bidspeed's service levels list State & Local Opportunities as one state on Bronze, three on Silver, five on Gold and ten on Diamond — so even the top tier leaves forty states you can't see, and expanding your territory means renegotiating your plan. Bidscope covers federal, every state, every county, city, school district and special district, plus Canada, on every plan. Deciding to chase work somewhere new costs nothing and takes no phone call.
Adding a state costs nothing
Matching that reads meaning, not filters
Search filters and alerts return what you asked for, which means the bid described in words you didn't anticipate never appears. Bidscope matches semantically against a plain-language description of your business — if your profile says tables and the RFP says desks, that's a match — and attaches a relevance score to every opportunity. When something lands that isn't a fit, delete the smart code behind it and the matching sharpens. Run several profiles at once if you have separate business lines.
A relevance score on every opportunity
The attachments, already read
Every attached document is processed before you open it, and what's inside becomes data on the opportunity: budget, bonding, insurance limits, set-asides, pre-bid meetings with the date and the Zoom link or address, local preference, place of performance, and exactly what you have to submit. Because it's structured, you filter and sort the entire list by those fields rather than opening PDFs to find out whether you're eligible.
30+ filters over extracted requirements
A published price, and seats you just add
Bidscope is $45/month per seat billed annually, or $90 month-to-month. It's on our pricing page, you can sign up without speaking to anyone, and you add a seat when you hire. Bidspeed publishes no figures — its service levels page ends in a discovery meeting — and caps user access at one, three, five or ten per account depending on which tier you land on.
$540 a year, no discovery meeting
Your data, in your own tools
A REST API and an MCP server on Professional, so Claude, ChatGPT or your own scripts can query opportunities, awards, vendors, buyers and buyer contacts directly. Ask "which school districts in my region bought what we sell last year, and who signed off" in your own client and get real data back, rather than reading it off a dashboard and retyping it.
API + MCP on Professional
Contractors are winning with Bidscope
Bidscope helps first-time contractors and enterprise businesses discover and win more contracts.
“In less than three months, we secured our first contract valued at $86,000 the first year, with the possibility of renewal each year for up to 5 years total, or $430,000 in new business. Investing in Bidscope is one of the best business decisions I have made in a very long time. There are a lot of things in the market that promise to increase sales and we have invested in many of them only to be disappointed. To date, none of them has so quickly and so greatly paid off!”
“Bidscope has been a cost-effective addition to our U.S. Federal, State, and local government business development pipeline activities. It has allowed our business to broaden our awareness and reach across the government procurement landscape. The email notifications are efficient and informative, allowing for a quick and confident assessment of interest.”
“Bidscope has significantly streamlined our RFP/RFQ search process through flexible, criteria-based filtering that quickly identifies relevant opportunities. We've found RFPs we hadn't seen through other channels, even within our home state. This has allowed us to expand our reach and pursue projects we otherwise would have missed.”
Looking for a Bidspeed alternative?
Teams leave Bidspeed for different reasons — price, coverage, what's metered. They pick Bidscope for the same one: more state and local solicitations than any other commercially available tool, matched to a plain-language profile of your business, at a published $45 per seat per month.
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Starter
- Federal + SLED solicitations
- Federal + SLED contracts
- Federal + SLED vendors, vendor activity, and vendor award history
- Federal + SLED buyers, buyer contacts, and agency award history
- 50,000+ sources daily
- AI-powered matching
- Daily email alerts
- Pipeline tracking
- 1 proposal writing session/month, then $30 each
- Chat support
Submitting a proposal by mail may add printing and postage fees.
Professional
- Everything in Starter
- 15 proposal writing sessions/month, then $30 each
- Access upcoming federal/SLED recompetes
- Federal/SLED procurement forecasts
- AI Federal/SLED agency budget alerts
- AI Federal/SLED meeting notes alerts
- Export contracts, vendors, vendor activity, buyers, and buyer contacts
- GSA eBuy integration
- API + MCP
- SSO
- 10 seats
- Personal onboarding
- Dedicated support
Submitting a proposal by mail may add printing and postage fees.
Business
- Everything in Professional
- Private opportunities
- CRM integration
- Unlimited seats
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Sources
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