This AI Use Policy (“Policy”) describes how Bid Banana uses artificial intelligence across its products and services, how your content is handled in connection with those features, and the limitations, disclaimers, and responsibilities that apply to your use of them. It applies to all AI features operated by Bid Lab Technologies, LLC, Bid Lab Technologies, Inc. and their Affiliates that provide the Services (“Bid Banana,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), including AI-assisted features within our Search service (such as opportunity matching, identification of similar or related opportunities, and extraction or summarization of information from solicitation documents), AI-assisted matching within our company profile and matching features, and any AI features made available through our API.
This Policy does not apply to, and is separate from, the human-staffed consulting services provided by Bid Lab LLC, which are governed by The Bid Lab AI Use Policy. Bid Banana’s AI features are automated and are not reviewed by a human before output is made available to you, except where we expressly state otherwise. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings given in the Bid Banana Terms of Use.
2. How We Use AI in the Services
We use artificial intelligence in the following parts of the Services:
(a) Search and opportunity intelligence. We use AI to match opportunities to your profile and interests, to identify similar or related opportunities, and to extract and summarize information from solicitation and opportunity documents. These outputs are automated and may be incomplete or inaccurate — including wrong or outdated deadlines, requirements, or details, and matches that are not in fact relevant or suitable. You are solely responsible for independently verifying any match, summary, or extracted detail against the original source before relying on it.
(b) Company profiles and matching. We may use AI to suggest, rank, or facilitate matches between businesses, buyers, and partners based on profile, activity, and opportunity information. Any such suggestions are automated, are not endorsements or recommendations, and do not verify the suitability, qualifications, or legitimacy of any party. You are responsible for your own due diligence.
(c) API. Where we make AI features available through our API, the same limitations described in this Policy apply, and your responsibility to review and verify AI outputs applies in full at any scale at which you use them.
(d) Provider processing and retention. To provide these features, we may share opportunity data and relevant inputs (such as the company description you provide for matching) with third-party artificial-intelligence providers. Content shared with these providers is used to provide these features and, subject to those providers’ terms, may be used by them to train their own models. It is retained by those providers in accordance with their respective data retention and security policies in effect from time to time. We may also use the content you submit, AI Output, and information about your use of the Services to develop, train, and improve our own artificial-intelligence models and Services. Under their current terms, our artificial-intelligence providers do not use content we share with them to train their own models. Before using your content to train our own models, we remove or de-identify personal information where reasonably practicable, and we do not sell your content or disclose it in identifiable form to other customers.
The general principles in this Policy — that AI outputs are automated, are generated without human review unless expressly stated, will contain errors, are not professional advice, and must be independently verified by you — apply to all of these features and are described in Sections 3 through 8.
3. AI Output Has No Human Review
AI Output is generated entirely by automated systems. No Bid Banana or Bid Lab employee, contractor, or professional reviews, verifies, or approves AI Output before it is made available to you. This is different from The Bid Lab’s human-staffed consulting services, where a qualified professional reviews work product at each key stage. You are the sole reviewer of AI Output before you rely on it or use it for any purpose.
4. AI Output Contains Errors
AI Output is generated using probabilistic models and will contain errors. This includes, without limitation: factual inaccuracies; fabricated (“hallucinated”) information; wrong or outdated deadlines, requirements, contacts, or other details; incomplete or incorrect summaries of solicitation documents; inaccurate budget or value estimates; incorrect categorization; and matches or similar opportunities that are not in fact relevant or suitable.
Set-aside, certification, and eligibility information. AI Output may summarize or extract set-aside, certification, or eligibility criteria from solicitations (for example, small business, 8(a), HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned, or women-owned designations), and company profiles may display certifications reported by their owners. We do not verify any company's eligibility for any status or certification, and AI Output is not an eligibility determination. Misrepresenting eligibility or certification status in a submission to a government solicitation can carry significant civil and criminal consequences, including under the federal False Claims Act and comparable state statutes, and those consequences are yours alone to bear.
5. No Guarantees
We do not warrant that AI Output is accurate, complete, compliant, original, or fit for any purpose, and we do not guarantee any outcome, including that any proposal will be accepted, scored favorably, deemed responsive, or awarded. AI Output is provided for informational and comparison purposes only.
6. Not Professional Advice
AI Output is not legal, procurement, compliance, financial, or other professional advice, and your use of the Services does not create an advisory, consulting, or professional relationship of any kind between you and Bid Banana or Bid Lab. If you need professional guidance on a specific bid or compliance question, consider engaging The Bid Lab’s consulting services or independent counsel.
7. Data Handling
Our collection, use, retention, and disclosure of personal information in connection with our AI features is described in the Bid Banana Privacy Policy. In summary: we use the content you submit, AI Output, and usage data to provide, develop, and improve the Services, including to train and improve artificial-intelligence models (our own and, subject to their terms, our providers’). You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to submit any content — including third-party or confidential material contained in a solicitation — for processing as described in this Policy.
8. Your Responsibility
Before relying on, submitting, or otherwise using any AI Output, you are solely responsible for reviewing, verifying, fact-checking, editing, and correcting it, including verifying any opportunity, deadline, requirement, match, summary, or extracted detail against the original source. Bid Banana’s total liability arising out of or relating to the Services is governed by Section 18 of the Terms of Use.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy at any time. We will notify you of updates either by posting the updated Policy on the Services with a new effective date or by emailing you at the address associated with your Account. Material changes that adversely affect you will take effect no earlier than thirty (30) days after notice, and an update provided by email controls over any inconsistent posted version. Your continued use of the Services after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.
