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Bidding and prequalification in Ontario

A bid list is a document check before it is a price check. WSIB clearance, a certificate of insurance with the right wording, a written safety policy, references, and on the bigger jobs a management system certificate. These guides cover what gets asked for, how to have it sitting ready, and how to know your proposal was opened.

6 ways to move forward

Practical guidesThe bid-ready checklistIncorporating is the starting gun, not the finish line. Ten stages generated for your trade, the next three things to do at the top, and a percentage that moves for the right reasons.Practical guidesKnow if they read itAn evening on a price, then silence, and no way to tell whether it landed in spam or was read and rejected. Send the proposal as a page instead of an attachment and it reports back: what they read, for how long, and what they skipped.After you qualifyBid ReadinessPrequalification packages, bid documents, bonding, estimating, and how construction companies actually get work.After you qualifyISO ComplianceISO 9001, 14001, 45001, implementation roadmaps, and how management systems help you win larger contracts.Practical guidesFirst public bidPublic work is not harder work, it is work with a filing cabinet attached. See what is actually open with closing dates, then find you already hold a controlled document library with the company profile and prequalification package in it.Practical guidesRespond to an RFPTurn an RFP into traceable requirements, questions, quantities and a commercial response. Keep the offer tied to the drawings, specifications and assumptions that support it.

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