Federal landscaping
contracts, found & scored for you
TheBidScout — the federal bid filter for facility-services contractors.
TheBidScout is built for one thing: helping small landscaping & grounds-maintenance companies find the federal mowing and grounds 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.
Grounds Maintenance — Air Force Base, Colorado Springs CO
Why grounds & landscaping
Federal grounds & landscaping 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 landscaping & grounds maintenance (NAICS 561730), so it understands your world: SCA wage determinations baked into the price, mowing frequency and acreage read out of the attachments, growing-season schedules, the state pesticide-applicator license behind fertilization and weed control, who owns the irrigation, and the mandatory site visit that quietly disqualifies a bid.
What you get
- A Weekly Fit Report of the federal landscaping & grounds opportunities scored for your company.
- Each opportunity ranked with an explainable score — services match, service area, set-aside match, deadline feasibility, and how many of the mandatory requirements (the pesticide-applicator license, the site visit) your profile covers — plus its risks and dealbreakers.
- Growing-season schedules, SCA wage determinations, set-asides, and deadlines linked to their source, so you can verify in one click.
- Acreage, service frequency, and season length dug out of the attachments — flagged Unknown only where the solicitation truly doesn't state them, never fabricated.
An example of what we catch
Example: a grounds-maintenance solicitation can look like a match until it requires a mandatory pre-bid site visit two states away, a pesticide-applicator license for the chemicals in scope, or Service Contract Act prevailing wages that change your price per acre. TheBidScout pulls those out of the PWS and its attachments — and flags an Unknown only when the documents truly don't say — so the acreage, the wage determination, and the site-visit deadline are in front of you before you commit.
What TheBidScout won't do
It won't write your proposal, set your price per acre, or promise the mowing contract is yours. The posted solicitation and its wage determination always control. TheBidScout's job is to put the grounds work that matches your services, service area, and licenses in front of you fast, with the reasoning attached — so you decide where to spend your bid time.