How it works
Three steps, a few minutes, and no setup.
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Give it the files
Drag the solicitation bundle onto the upload box — PDF, Word, or a ZIP of both. Or paste the notice number from sam.gov, the government's own site for published opportunities, and BidShred downloads the attachments for you.
Uploading is the path that needs nothing configured: no account with the government, no key, no waiting.
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Watch it read
The page shows what it is doing and how far it has got — reading the files, finding the requirements, building your checklist. A 26-page solicitation takes a few minutes; a 300-page bundle takes longer, because it is read in pieces rather than skimmed.
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Take the four things away
The requirement checklist, the proposal outline as a Word document, the submission checklist, and the plain-English bid-or-skip summary. The checklist also downloads as a spreadsheet with empty columns for who owns each line, its status, and where you answered it, so it becomes your working document.
Every line names its page
This is the part that matters. A requirement is not a paraphrase — it is the government's own sentence, with the file it came from and the page it is on:
| Requirement | Source file | Page |
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| The contractor shall begin performance within 15 calendar days of contract award and complete it within 120 calendar days after receiving an award. | Repair of Sidewalks on Coast Guard Island — solicitation.pdf | 1 |
| Offerors interested in a site visit prior to solicitation closing must notify the contracting officer and contract specialist immediately to facilitate access to the worksite. | Repair of Sidewalks on Coast Guard Island — solicitation.pdf | 1 |
| Offerors must be registered at SAM.gov at the time of offer submittal. | Repair of Sidewalks on Coast Guard Island — solicitation.pdf | 1 |
Open the PDF, go to that page, and the sentence is there. If it is not, that line never gets written — here is how that check works.
A few words this business uses
- Solicitation
- The document a government agency publishes when it wants to buy something. It says what it wants, how to offer, and how offers will be judged.
- Set-aside
- A contract reserved for one category of small business. If your company is not in that category you cannot win it, so it is the first thing worth checking.
- NAICS code
- The government's six-digit code for a line of work. Opportunities are filed under them, which is how the daily email knows what to send you.
- Evaluation factors
- The things the government said it will score your proposal on, and how heavily.
- Past performance
- Work you have done before that is similar in size and scope, offered as evidence you can do this one.