Federal building maintenance
contracts, found & scored for you
TheBidScout — the federal bid filter for facility-services contractors.
TheBidScout is built for one thing: helping small building maintenance & O&M companies find the federal facilities contracts worth bidding — without living inside SAM.gov.
Free to start — no credit card, ever. Starter is $49/mo if the weekly report earns it; cancel anytime.
Facility Operations & Maintenance (IDIQ) — Army Reserve Center, Fort Benning GA
Why building maintenance
Federal building-maintenance contracts are real revenue — but they're buried in thousands of SAM.gov notices a week, posted as raw PDFs with no read on whether any of them fit your company. TheBidScout tunes its scoring to building maintenance & O&M (NAICS 561210 / 561790), so it understands your world: multi-trade scope across HVAC, plumbing, and electrical, the state journeyman and master licenses (and EPA 608 refrigerant certs) you have to hold, SCA wage determinations, bonding capacity against an IDIQ ceiling, after-hours and emergency response-time SLAs, mandatory preventive-maintenance schedules and site visits — the requirements that quietly disqualify a bid.
A note on trades: TheBidScout covers HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and EPA 608 work where it shows up as part of a building-maintenance / O&M scope. HVAC & mechanical is now its own live niche — see the dedicated coverage page.
What you get
- A Weekly Fit Report of the federal building maintenance & O&M opportunities scored for your company.
- Each opportunity ranked with an explainable score — trade scope and the licenses and certs it demands, geography, set-aside match, deadline feasibility — plus its risks and dealbreakers.
- Which wage law applies (SCA vs. Davis-Bacon), required trade licenses, set-asides, and deadlines linked to their source, so you can verify in one click.
- The trades in scope and the PM schedule dug out of the attachments — flagged Unknown only where the solicitation truly doesn't spell them out, never fabricated.
An example of what we catch
Example: a building-maintenance solicitation can look like a match until the wage determination attaches Davis-Bacon to the repair work instead of the Service Contract Act, the scope includes a licensed trade you'd have to subcontract, or a mandatory walkthrough lands before your deadline. TheBidScout surfaces which wage law applies and which requirements are mandatory — and flags an Unknown only when the documents truly don't say — so you can price the job with the real requirements in front of you.
What TheBidScout won't do
It won't write your proposal, size your bonding, or promise the O&M award is yours. The posted solicitation and its wage determination always control. TheBidScout's job is to put the building-maintenance work that matches your trades, licenses, and service area in front of you fast, with the reasoning attached — so you decide where to spend your bid time.