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Finding construction work in Ontario

An open tender is the last place a project appears. These guides cover the public portals every Ontario contractor can bid on, the permits and rezonings that show a job 6 to 36 months before the invitation goes out, and how to be on a general contractor’s list before they have anything to send you.

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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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How to run the businessFind open Ontario tendersPublic tenders are scattered across MERX, Biddingo, Bids and Tenders and dozens of buyer portals, each with its own login. Get the live Ontario ones in one list: search the thing you build, read a record in a minute, and track a bid onto your pipeline board in one click.How to run the businessHear about work earlyTransmission lines, environmental filings, rezonings and agency capital plans are projects announcing themselves years ahead. Get them filtered to your trade and region, grouped by how far in front of the bid each one sits.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 businessWhere work is startingA live feed of Ontario employers who just pulled a building permit or won a contract, filtered to your trade. A permit is earlier than a job ad: read the signal like an estimator, track it in one click, and get a weekly heads-up by email.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.

The rest of the Ontario library

Bidding and prequalification in Ontario Pricing construction work in Ontario Change orders and extras in Ontario Getting paid on Ontario construction Construction holdback in Ontario Construction liens in Ontario HST for Ontario contractors Construction bookkeeping in Ontario

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