Federal waste & refuse
contracts, found & scored for you
TheBidScout — the federal bid filter for facility-services contractors.
TheBidScout is built for one thing: helping small waste & refuse collection companies find the federal trash, recycling, and roll-off 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.
Municipal Solid Waste & Recycling Collection — Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH
Why waste & refuse
Federal waste & refuse 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 waste & refuse collection (NAICS 562111 / 562119), so it understands your world: container counts and pickup frequency, the route and tonnage you'd be on the hook for, recycling diversion-rate and weight-ticket reporting, local hauling permits and disposal-site access, DOT/CDL drivers and titled collection vehicles, and the requirements that quietly disqualify a bid.
What you get
- A Weekly Fit Report of the federal waste & refuse collection 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 (hauling permits, CDL drivers, disposal-site access) your profile covers — plus its risks and dealbreakers.
- Hauling and disposal permits, diversion and weight-ticket reporting, set-asides, and deadlines linked to their source, so you can verify in one click.
- Container counts, service frequency, and tonnage 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 refuse-and-recycling solicitation can look like a match until it requires a disposal-facility permit you'd have to line up, CDL drivers and specific truck classes, or tonnage and diversion reporting on a set schedule. TheBidScout reads those route and compliance requirements out of the SOW — and flags an Unknown only when the documents are truly silent — so the permits, the driver requirements, and the reporting schedule are in front of you before you price the route.
Hazardous vs. non-hazardous
The focus here is non-hazardous solid-waste and refuse work — trash, recycling, and roll-off. Hazardous waste and regulated-medical waste (red-bag, sharps) are separately licensed, separately manifested streams that may fall outside scope, so always verify the solicitation before you treat one as a fit.
What TheBidScout won't do
It won't write your bid, price your route, or promise the refuse contract is yours. The posted solicitation always controls, and so do your local hauling and disposal permits. TheBidScout's job is to put the collection work your trucks and yard can actually cover in front of you fast, with the reasoning attached — so you decide which routes are worth bidding.