1.6M+ government bids and RFPs. One search.
Bid Banana Search is a government RFP and bid search engine for small businesses: 1.6M+ RFPs, bids and awards from 4,000+ agencies across all 50 states — state, local and federal — collected daily. No demos, no sales calls, no paying per region: prices a small business can actually say yes to.
7-day free trial · cancel anytime · plans from $49.99/mo
- All 50 states
- 4,000+ agencies & buyers
- State, local + federal bids
- Updated daily
Search that finds bids you'd actually bid on.
Other databases hand you a keyword dump and wish you luck. Bid Banana puts deadline, budget, and a plain-English summary on every result, so the right opportunity is obvious — and the wrong ones never waste your afternoon.
Triage in seconds, not tabs
Deadline, budget, and effort sit right on the card — with a plain-English AI summary of the solicitation — so you can skip the 40-page PDF until a bid earns it.
Filters that think in deadlines
Closing-date presets (next 7, 14 or 30 days, or rolling), a searchable state facet, and opportunity-type filters narrow 1.6M+ bids down to your shortlist fast.
Honest AI, always labeled
When a budget or summary is AI-extracted from the documents, the card says so. You always know what's stated in the solicitation and what's our best read.
AI document analysis
Requirements, key dates, and budgets pulled out of multi-hundred-page specifications and addenda — so you know what matters before you commit a weekend to reading.
Fresh data, collected daily
Bids are collected every day from thousands of agencies, then normalized so every result reads the same way.
Works where you work
The full search — filters and all — fits your phone. Check new matches from the truck, the job site, or the school pickup line.
The right bid finds you. Daily or weekly, when you want it.
Save any search with every filter attached, and new matches arrive in one email — daily or weekly, on the day and hour you choose, not fifty alerts you delete.
- Saved searches capture your exact query and filters
- One digest, daily or weekly, at the day and hour you pick
- A heading per search with its top 3 new bids and a link to the rest
- Rename, rerun, or delete a search anytime
Never miss a deadline you care about.
Favorite a bid and it joins a queue that sorts itself by closing date, so the deadline sneaking up is always at the top.
- One click saves a bid from any result
- Closing-soon first, so nothing slips
- Open and closed tabs keep past bids for reference
Research before you bid. Win before they post.
Government buying runs in cycles — the contract you missed last year is coming back. Search awarded contracts and closed bids to see who buys what you sell, what it went for, and when it comes up again. Walk into next season with a target list instead of a blank page.
- Awarded contracts: see winners, values, and buying agencies
- Closed bids: find the agencies that have bought what you do
- Every closed bid points to similar open ones — research becomes pipeline
Included in every plan.
Start researching free
Explore bids state by state.
Every state has its own page, plus federal, with open bids and recently closed bids side by side, plus a guide to bidding there.
- A page for every state, plus federal
- Open and recently closed bids, including recent awards, in one view
- Industry pages for 48 industries
Most open bids right now
All states and industries
By state and federal
- Federal
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, DC
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
By industry
Industries with 50 or more open bids.
Construction & Engineering
6 industries
- Architecture250+
- Civil Engineering550+
- Construction7,000+
- Engineering Services1,000+
- Property Development50+
- Real Estate300+
Energy & Environment
6 industries
Facilities & Hospitality
6 industries
Finance & Insurance
2 industries
- Financial Services150+
- Insurance100+
Health, Education & Social Services
4 industries
Manufacturing & Supply
6 industries
Professional Services
5 industries
Technology & Media
3 industries
Transportation & Logistics
2 industries
Rather not search at all?
Tell us what your company does once. The right bids find you, ranked by how well they fit. Match is included with Search.
“Their search engine has been so much easier to use than trying to figure out SAM.gov or looking everywhere online for other resources.”
Don't compare apples to bananas.
Legacy bid databases were built for enterprise procurement teams — and priced like it. Bid Banana was built for the businesses doing the actual bidding.
Questions, answered.
How much does Bid Banana cost?
Bid Banana is $49.99 per month or $479.99 per year per person, with search, saved-search alerts, similar bids, award and closed-bid research, AI document analysis and Match. It starts with a 7-day free trial you can cancel anytime, and you'll never need to sit through a sales call to see a price.
What bids can I search on Bid Banana?
Over 1.6 million bids and awards across all 50 U.S. states — RFPs, invitations for bid (IFBs) and requests for quote (RFQs) from state, local and federal government, collected from 4,000+ agencies and buyers and updated daily. You can also search closed bids and awarded contracts to research future opportunities.
How do saved-search alerts work?
Save any search with your exact keywords and filters attached. New matching bids arrive in one email digest, daily or weekly, on the day and hour you choose (6 AM to 8 PM Eastern) — not a flood of irrelevant alerts. Each saved search gets its own heading with its top three new bids and a link to see the rest, and a bid that matches two of your searches is listed once. Favorited bids also join a queue sorted by closing date, so approaching deadlines are always visible.
How does Bid Banana use AI?
AI extracts the facts buried in long solicitation documents — plain-English summaries, estimated budgets, requirements, and key dates — so you can triage bids in seconds. Anything AI-derived is clearly labeled on the result, so you always know what's stated in the solicitation versus estimated, and you can verify it in the attached documents.
How is Bid Banana different from SAM.gov?
SAM.gov only covers federal opportunities and is famously hard to navigate. Bid Banana brings federal, state, and local bids into one fast, modern search with filters, alerts, and AI summaries — so you don't need a dozen tabs and portal logins to cover your market.
Can Bid Banana help me respond to a bid, not just find it?
Bid Banana finds and tracks the bids. For the response, The Bid Lab's free guides cover every step, and for must-win bids The Bid Lab's team can take it on. See Bid help.
One search. Every state.
Bids from all 50 states: 1.6M+ bids and awards, saved searches with daily or weekly alerts, and award research. Start with a free trial.
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For small businesses and solo bidders
- All 50 states, every level of government
- Saved searches with daily or weekly alerts
- Match: the right bids find you
- Similar bids and award research
- AI document analysis
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