There is no single place where Florida's public work is posted — and that single fact costs contractors more winnable jobs than any competitor does. Federal projects go to SAM.gov. State agency purchasing runs through MyFloridaMarketPlace. FDOT runs its own lettings calendar. All 67 counties operate their own procurement portals, most sizable cities run separate ones, school districts post independently, and special districts — water management, ports, housing authorities, hospital districts — scatter across dozens more. A roofing contractor in Orlando has relevant solicitations appearing across ten-plus systems in a normal week.
Every federal solicitation — VA clinics, military installations, federal courthouses, USACE work — posts to SAM.gov, free by law. Florida's density of federal facilities makes this layer rich for trades: reroofs, electrical upgrades, paving packages, and set-asides (SDVOSB, 8(a), HUBZone) that shrink the competing field dramatically. Registration is free and required to bid; our SAM.gov contractor's guide walks the whole setup.
State agency purchasing — DMS, DEP, universities, corrections — flows through MyFloridaMarketPlace and the Vendor Bid System. Separately, FDOT posts road, bridge, and sitework lettings on its own calendar with its own prequalification rules (see FDOT lettings explained). Neither system emails you what matters; both assume you'll come looking, daily.
Counties and cities produce the steadiest trade-contractor volume — reroofs on public buildings, electrical maintenance terms, resurfacing packages, emergency repair contracts. Each posts on its own portal (often DemandStar, BidNet, Bonfire, OpenGov, or a homegrown page), each with separate registration. School boards buy constantly — summer reroofs and renovations are an entire seasonal economy — and special districts quietly award millions in trade work with far fewer bidders watching.
Checking two portals weekly feels diligent and misses most of the market: a realistic Florida trade footprint means 30–40 sources, checked daily, because solicitations commonly run two to three weeks with mandatory pre-bid meetings in week one. Miss the meeting, and reading the bid later is worthless. That monitoring burden — not skill, not pricing — is why the same handful of firms seem to win everything: they see everything.
Daily Bid Alert exists to be that monitoring department: every night we scan the federal, state, FDOT, county, city, school and district sources for Florida, read each new solicitation, score it against your trade and counties, and put the matches in your inbox at 7am with scope, estimated size, pre-bid dates, deadlines, and the direct source link. Founding seats are open — or start with the trade guides: roofing, electrical, paving & sitework.
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