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Our Story

Built by agency people
who got tired of searching.

Two founders. One shared frustration. A tool we built for ourselves and decided to share.

01

The problem

We know what it feels like to finish a contract and immediately start panicking about the next one.

We ran a digital agency together: web design and build, ERP, data management. Good work, good clients. But the gap between contracts was brutal. Not because the opportunities were not out there, but because finding the right ones was a full-time job on top of the actual job.

We spent hours across sam.gov, state procurement portals, and every RFP aggregator we could find. James would filter it through a design and UX lens: is the scope real, is the brief coherent, does this client know what they want? Alex would make the final technical call: is this actually buildable, is the budget realistic, is it worth the effort of a full proposal?

Two people. Multiple hours. And 99% of what we reviewed was not appropriate for us.

02

The build

So we built our own filter.

We started scraping the web ourselves, pulling from federal, state, local, and municipal sources across the US and Canada. We layered in rigorous automated filtering to cut out the noise: wrong category, wrong budget, wrong geography, already closed. Then we added a final human review - the same three-perspective check we had always done, now applied to every single listing before it goes live.

Design. Technical. If an RFP does not pass both lenses, it does not make the list.

What we ended up with was a shortlist of 60–75 genuinely high-quality digital RFPs at any given time. Opportunities we would have actually bid on ourselves.

03

Why we are sharing it

We realised pretty quickly that every digital agency we knew had the same problem. The good RFPs exist. They are just buried under thousands of irrelevant ones, and most agencies do not have the time or the tooling to find them consistently.

BidReady is the solution we always wished existed. A curated, continuously updated list of digital-only RFPs - web, data, BI, digital marketing - filtered by people who have actually written the bids, reviewed the scopes, and felt the sting of a wasted proposal.

We launched in 2026. We are based across Europe and the US. And we update the list every single week.

If you are tired of searching, this is for you.

The Team

Two lenses.
Every RFP.

Each of us brings a different perspective to the review process. That is the point. An RFP that passes both is one worth your time.

J
James Clifford
Design & Client Lead

Reviewed and won major digital RFPs for the UK Government, Virgin, and Gartner. Vets every opportunity through a rigorous UX and commercial lens.

"I have reviewed and written RFPs for the UK Government, Virgin, and Gartner. I know exactly what makes one worth bidding on, and what is a waste of your week."

A
Alex Zubarev
Tech Lead

Former software engineer at Google and Amazon. Deconstructs complex technical scopes to eliminate hidden engineering risks before they reach your desk.

"After my time at Google and Amazon, I know how to spot the tech complexity RFPs hide. I tease it out and spell it out for you in plain language."

How We Work

The principles behind
every listing.

We built BidReady around a few non-negotiables. These are not marketing copy. They are the actual constraints we apply to every RFP we review.

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Digital only. No exceptions.

We do not list construction, legal, facilities, or any other category. If it is not digital, it never makes the list. That constraint is what makes everything else work.

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Human review on everything.

Automated tools get us most of the way. But every listing that makes it through is reviewed by a real person before it goes live. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.

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$20k minimum. Always.

Low-value opportunities are not just financially uninteresting - they are disproportionately time-consuming. The $20k floor is not a filter. It is a statement of respect for your time.

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Always live. Never stale.

Closed RFPs are removed the moment they expire. The list is maintained in real time so you are never looking at an opportunity that has already passed.

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