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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.

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Open a seeded business in your trade. Nine jobs on the pipeline, a quote sent and viewed, a deposit paid, an invoice overdue, and a holdback on the current month.

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No card, no form. Sign in later and everything you built stays on the same account.

8 guides on this

How to run the businessThe 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.After you qualifyISO ComplianceISO 9001, 14001, 45001, implementation roadmaps, and how management systems help you win larger contracts.How to run the businessFirst 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.How to run the businessKnow 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.How to run the businessStart your business in OntarioThe eight setup stages in order, from incorporation through CRA, WSIB and licensing to bid ready: walk the three-step wizard to a live name check and an all-in filing price with government fees included, free and with no account, nothing filed until you authorize and pay.How to run the businessBrand, website, documentsThe decision takes a sentence. The admin that follows takes a fortnight: a logo, a colour picked in a hurry, a website that never gets finished, and documents written the night before a builder asks for them. One press produces all three, in one brand.How to run the businessGet on GC bid listsThere is no register to sign and no form to fill. Work arrives because somebody at a builder has your name in front of them. Find the person, send them something worth keeping, and be able to answer the prequalification package when it comes.After you qualifyBid ReadinessPrequalification packages, bid documents, bonding, estimating, and how construction companies actually get work.

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