BidscopevsProxity
State and local discovery, and your proposal written and sent, for $45.
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
Proxity is a $200-a-month federal parts and contact-directory database — NSN drawings, prices back to 1961, and phone books of CIOs, purchasing offices and public works officials — with proposal writing sold as a $950 service on top, while Bidscope is $45 per seat per month for every state and local solicitation in the country plus Canada, matched to your business by AI, and that price includes a proposal a month drafted and submitted for you by Bidscope AI.
- What it costs
- Bidscope$45/month per seat — $540/year
- Proxity$200/month — $2,400/year, before add-ons
- Where opportunities come from
- BidscopeAn agentic crawler over 50,000+ sources — district Drives, county sites, newspaper notices
- ProxitySAM plus state organizations, indexed by keyword, NSN, FSC and NAICS
- What you get on state and local
- BidscopeEvery county, city and district bid, with 30+ filters on each one
- ProxityState solicitations, plus contact directories for CIOs, purchasing and public works
- How you get matched
- BidscopeA plain-language profile; AI scores every opportunity for fit
- ProxityKeyword, NSN, FSC or NAICS
- Writing and submitting the proposal
- BidscopeBidscope AI drafts it, fills out the forms and submits it — one a month included, then $30
- ProxityA $950 service from its proposal team
Proxity vs Bidscope, feature by feature
Where a cell says a plan name, that's the Bidscope tier the feature starts on.
| Capability |  | Proxity |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | ||
| Federal solicitations | BidscopeYes | ProxityYes |
| State and local solicitations | BidscopeEvery state, county, city and district | ProxityState organizations |
| Counties, cities, school districts and special districts | BidscopeYes | ProxityContact directories |
| Canadian opportunities | BidscopeYes | ProxityNo |
| Agencies with no bid portal (district Drives, county sites, newspaper notices) | BidscopeReached by agentic crawler | ProxityNo |
| Exclusive opportunities from partner buyers | BidscopeYes | ProxityNo |
| Finding the right bids | ||
| AI semantic matching with a relevance score | BidscopeYes | ProxityKeyword, NSN, FSC or NAICS |
| Setup from a plain-language description of your business | BidscopeYes | ProxityNo |
| Several matching profiles for separate business lines | BidscopeYes | ProxityNo |
| Tune matching by rejecting a bad match | BidscopeYes | ProxityNo |
| Filter by budget, bonding, radius and local preference | Bidscope30+ filters | ProxityKeyword, NAICS, FSC, state, set-aside |
| Key details pulled from attachments into structured fields | BidscopeBudget, bonds, insurance, set-asides, pre-bid | ProxityNo |
| Daily email digest | BidscopeYour matches, ranked by fit | ProxityDaily bids by keyword, NSN, FSC or NAICS |
| Before the solicitation | ||
| Expiring contracts and upcoming recompetes | BidscopeFederal and SLED, Professional plan | ProxityBy NAICS, PSC, agency or company |
| Agency procurement forecasts | BidscopeProfessional plan | Proxity"Agency forecasting" listed |
| Budget line items | BidscopeAI alerts, Professional plan | ProxityNo |
| Meeting notes | BidscopeAI alerts, Professional plan | ProxityNo |
| Writing and submitting | ||
| Proposal writing, the agency's forms and price sheets included | BidscopeBidscope AI, in the subscription | ProxityA $950 service from its proposal team |
| Proposals included in the subscription | Bidscope1 a month on Starter, 15 on Professional, then $30 each | ProxityNo |
| Submitted to the agency for you | BidscopeBy email or mail | ProxityWithin the $950 service |
| Working the pipeline | ||
| Kanban pipeline with assignments and comments | BidscopeYes | ProxityElectronic folders |
| Export to Excel | BidscopeYes | ProxityYes |
| REST API | BidscopeProfessional plan | ProxityNo |
| MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other AI clients | BidscopeProfessional plan | ProxityNo |
| CRM integrations (Salesforce, Pipedrive) | BidscopeBusiness plan | ProxityNo |
| Terms | ||
| Published price | Bidscope$45/month per seat | Proxity$200/month |
| Cost for one year | Bidscope$540 | Proxity$2,400, before add-ons |
| Free plan | BidscopeYes | ProxitySample search |
| Personal onboarding call | BidscopeYes | ProxityTraining at no charge |
| Percentage of your winnings | BidscopeNone | ProxityNone |
What a year costs
Both prices below are published — ours on our pricing page, Proxity's on its subscription page. The difference is what each one covers, and what still has to be bought separately afterwards.
SAM solicitations and award history, NSN and parts data, contracting officer and agency directories.
Federal, all 50 states and Canada, AI matching, extracted requirements, pipeline, and a proposal a month drafted and submitted for you.
$1,860 less per year with Bidscope — Proxity lists 4.4× the monthly price, and that's before anything priced separately.
Proxity's product list prices these separately, on top of the subscription. The one Bidscope also does — proposal writing — is in the subscription: one session a month on Starter, $30 for each one after that.
- Capabilities statement
- $500
- Proposal or bid writing
- $950
- FOIA request
- $200, then 20% of production
- WOSB / HUBZone / MBE certification
- $2,500
- VOSB / SDVOSB certification
- $2,000
- 8(a) certification
- $3,500
Why teams switch from Proxity
The reasons people give us on onboarding calls, in the order we hear them.
We go where the bids actually are
Proxity indexes SAM and state organizations. Bidscope runs an agentic crawler that goes past the portals entirely: 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
The proposal is in the subscription
Proxity sells proposal writing as a $950 service from its in-house proposal team. On Bidscope it's part of what you already pay for: Bidscope AI drafts the response from the solicitation and its attachments using your business details, fills out the agency's own forms, price sheets and templates, and attaches your files. You review and sign, and Bidscope submits it — emailed from your own Gmail account, or printed and mailed to the agency. Starter includes one proposal writing session a month, Professional fifteen, and each one after that is $30.
A proposal a month included, not a $950 service
The bids themselves, not the phone book
Proxity's state and local offering is largely directories: CIOs in every state, purchasing offices in 1,400 cities and counties, 1,500 public works officials, state agency phone books. Useful once you know what you're chasing. Bidscope starts from the opportunity — every county, city, school district and special district solicitation in all fifty states plus Canada, scored against your capabilities, with the buyer's named contact already attached to it.
All 50 states and Canada, bids first
Matching that reads meaning, not codes
Proxity delivers daily results by keyword, NSN, FSC or NAICS. Those return exactly what you asked for, which means the bid described in words you didn't anticipate never appears — and state and local agencies rarely use federal supply codes at all. Bidscope matches semantically against a plain-language description of your business, so an RFP for desks matches a profile that says tables, and every opportunity carries a relevance score.
A relevance score, not a code list
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 whole list by those fields instead of opening PDFs to find out whether you're eligible.
30+ filters over extracted requirements
A subscription, not a price list
Bidscope is $45/month per seat billed annually, or $90 month-to-month. Proxity's subscription is $200/month, and its product list prices the rest individually — $950 for proposal writing, $500 for a capabilities statement, $2,000 to $3,500 for a certification, $200 for a FOIA request plus 20% of whatever the agency charges to produce it.
$540 a year, against $2,400 before add-ons
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.”
“Within 12 months, Bidscope helped us secure two contracts: a one-year contract for $32,000 and another for $80,000, totaling $112,000 in new revenue for the upcoming calendar year. Its matching algorithms have greatly reduced our search time, allowing us to submit more bids, strengthen the quality of our proposals, and focus on opportunities that better align with our strengths.”
Looking for a Proxity alternative?
Teams leave Proxity 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, with the proposal drafted, filled out and submitted for them, 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
Claims about Proxity on this page come from its own published material and from third-party reviews, listed below. Proxity is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Bidscope. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.