The Pre-Submission Quality Check For Government Bids
GradeTheBid reads your federal, state, or city solicitation, maps every requirement, reviews your draft, and gives you a clear fix list before you submit.
Built for government contractors. You stay responsible for your final proposal.
First check free. No card to start. New accounts get one free bid check: 10 credits, and a bid check takes 10.
GradeTheBid looks for these before you submit, and tells you where each one is.
How It Works
Upload a government bid. Get the checklist and a grade with a fix list before you send it. On Pro, get a first draft from your own past work too.
Federal, state, city, county, or school district. PDF, Word, or text. The app reads every page and pulls out every requirement, with the page it came from.
Every requirement, where to answer it, and which part of the score it counts toward.
Written only from your own Company Profile. Key-person resumes are tailored to the bid. Anything missing is marked [NEEDS YOUR INPUT], never made up.
Your draft is reviewed against the stated evaluation criteria, with a numbered fix list. Already wrote your own draft? Upload it and it gets the same review.
What You Get
Every requirement in the bid: what it says, the page, where to answer it, and how it is scored. Download it as Excel.
Section L tells you what to send. Section M tells you how they score it. The map shows which instructions count toward which score, so you write to the score.
Every FAR, DFARS, and Texas clause the bid lists, what each one asks of you, and a link to the official text. No AI, and free.
Every section, written only from your Company Profile, as Word files in the bid's font and margins. Gaps are marked for you to fill in.
Rated with the five ratings federal evaluators commonly use: Outstanding, Good, Acceptable, Marginal, and Unacceptable. Strengths, weaknesses, and a numbered list of what to fix first.
For a sealed low-bid bid: a pass or fail check of every form, signature, bond, insurance certificate, addendum, and the deadline, with the page for each.
On a state, city, county, or school district bid: where that state posts bids, vendor registration, small business programs, the late payment law, and the forms its bids commonly ask for, each with the official source.
Similar past federal awards from USAspending.gov: who won, for how much, and when. Federal awards only. Free.
Tailor each key person's resume to the bid, or build one from a short form. Any employer, date, number, or certification that is not in the person's own record is taken out.
More help on the same credits, and many are free. Tools marked Pro come with Pro:
Also on every bid: the Final Package Check (page counts, fonts, and margins against the limits). On Pro: a Win Strategy, an Annotated Outline, and Questions For The Contracting Officer.
What Makes It Different
Big proposal platforms sell a grade like this through a sales call, for up to about $40,000 a year. Here you sign up and run it yourself. Pro is $297 a month.
No card and no call. Make an account, upload a bid, and see the fix list.
The State Checklist covers every state and DC, with the official source for each item. We have not found another self-serve tool that checks state bid forms.
The draft and the resumes use only what you give the app. Anything missing is marked for you to fill in.
Other platforms' prices come from their public pages, checked in October 2026.
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Book An Enterprise CallThis is your own math. It uses only the numbers you typed and our plan prices today. It is not a promise that you will save money or win a bid. Your team still reviews and finishes every bid, and you stay responsible for your final proposal.
A bid check is 10 credits and a full proposal is 20 credits for a solicitation up to 150 pages (a longer one costs a few more credits to read). Credits are only taken when a step finishes. New accounts get one free bid check. With JavaScript on, your numbers stay in your browser and are never saved.
Plans
Start free with one proposal grade. Pro does the whole job: up to 10 full proposals a month with the first draft, the grade, the Final PDF, bid alerts, the Bid Tracker, and more. A bid check (one solicitation read and graded) is 10 credits, and credits are only taken when a step finishes.
Grade one government solicitation before you submit.
$0
1 proposal grade total. No credit card.
10 credits, once. It does not renew each month.
The whole proposal workshop, for teams submitting bids.
$297/month
Up to 10 full proposals a month
Write and grade. 200 credits a month: up to 10 full proposals, or 20 proposal grades.
Everything in Free, plus:
Or $2,970 a year (two months free).
30-day money-back guarantee
For larger proposal teams and high-volume bidding.
$2,997 a month or $29,970 a year
6,000 credits a month and unlimited team sign-ins, onboarding and support.
Everything in Pro, for your whole proposal team. About 600 bid checks or 300 full proposals a month.
Or email admin@daltonrios.com. The call is for setup, not for the price.
Or start Enterprise now, and pay in one step.
Extra Grades
$100
5 more proposal grades for $100, on any paid plan. One time, no plan change.
50 credits. Pack credits last 12 months.
Talk To A Proposal Pro
+$500 a month
After you win, a real procurement pro helps you with Wide Area WorkFlow invoicing, CPARS ratings, and your deliverables and due dates. Not open yet: join the waitlist and we tell you when a pro is hired. Nothing is charged.
Join The WaitlistMake your free account, then press Join The Waitlist on the Plans page.
Paid plans are monthly unless you pick yearly on the Plans page. You make your account and pay in one step. Cancel any time from the Plans page.
Try GradeTheBid for 30 days. If it does not help you send a better bid, email us and we refund your first month. No questions asked.
On Pro.
Questions
No. GradeTheBid is software, not a law firm. It is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. You are responsible for every word, number, and certification you submit.
No. The grade is a practice run. It shows weak spots and what to fix before the government reads your bid. The buyer makes the final call.
PDF, Word, or text files, up to 40 MB. Public solicitations and your own company information only. Never upload CUI, ITAR, export-controlled, or classified files.
Yes. Federal bids follow the same rules in every state. For a state, city, county, or school district bid, the app finds the buyer's state and shows that state's checklist. All 50 states and DC are covered, and you can pick the state yourself.
Yes, any time. Open Plans and press Manage Billing to cancel in Stripe. When the paid plan ends, your account goes back to the free plan.
No. GradeTheBid never submits anything to the government. You download your files and submit them yourself. Nothing goes to SAM.gov or any agency from the app.
No. Your files are used only to run your bid. The AI runs on Anthropic's commercial Claude API, whose terms say customer content is not used for training. Files auto-delete after 30 days. Data And Legal
First check free. No card to start.
Built for government contractors. You stay responsible for your final proposal.