Federal HVAC & mechanical
contracts, found & scored for you
TheBidScout — the federal bid filter for facility-services contractors.
TheBidScout is built for one thing: helping small HVAC & mechanical contractors find the federal chiller, boiler, air-handler, and controls 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.
HVAC Preventive Maintenance & Repair — VA Medical Center, Aurora CO
Why HVAC & mechanical
Federal HVAC & mechanical contracts are real revenue — chillers, boilers, air handlers, building controls, and the maintenance, repair, and replacement work that keeps federal facilities running — 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 covers HVAC & mechanical (NAICS 238220) so the fit scoring actually understands your world: EPA 608 refrigerant certification, state mechanical and journeyman licenses, bonding capacity, service-call response times, and the requirements that quietly disqualify a bid.
What you get
- A Weekly Fit Report of the federal HVAC & mechanical opportunities scored for your company.
- Each opportunity ranked with an explainable score — chiller, boiler, air-handler, and controls scope, EPA 608 and state licensing, geography, set-aside match, deadline feasibility — plus its risks and dealbreakers.
- Wage determinations, required trade licenses and certifications, set-asides, and submission deadlines linked to their source, so you can verify in one click.
- Equipment scope and preventive-maintenance schedules 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: an HVAC solicitation can look like a match until the wage determination attaches rates that reset your labor cost, the scope requires an EPA 608 certification level you don't hold, or a mandatory pre-bid walkthrough lands before your deadline. TheBidScout pulls those out of the PWS and its attachments — and flags an Unknown only when the documents truly don't say — so the wage rates, the certification requirement, and the walkthrough date are in front of you before you invest in the bid.
What TheBidScout won't do
It won't write your technical proposal, price your equipment and labor, or tell you the mechanical award is yours. The posted solicitation and its wage determination always control. TheBidScout's job is to put the HVAC & mechanical jobs that fit your certifications and service area in front of you fast, with the reasoning attached — so you decide which ones earn your bid time.