For Small & DBE Businesses

Find public works opportunities built for small and DBE businesses

BidAmerica helps small, disadvantaged, and emerging businesses discover public works projects, understand participation opportunities, and compete with confidence.

Access to opportunities shouldn’t depend on who you know

Public works opportunities are often difficult for small and DBE businesses to find, interpret, and pursue. BidAmerica levels the playing field by surfacing active projects, highlighting participation requirements, and helping smaller firms understand where and how they can get involved—without navigating multiple portals or complex systems.

See opportunities earlier.
Understand participation requirements faster.
Compete with clarity and confidence.
BidAmerica brings public works opportunities to you
Global AI Search

AI-powered search across our project database

Describe the type of work or participation you’re looking for, and BidAmerica’s AI scans project documents to surface relevant public works opportunities.

Show me projects that: "include DBE or small business participation requirements"
BidAmerica Global AI Search interface
BidAmerica project assessment interface

Understand requirements before you commit

BidAmerica organizes key project details so small and DBE businesses can quickly understand participation requirements, deadlines, and expectations, before investing time or resources. Instead of decoding complex specifications and agency language, small and DBE businesses can review summarized project information, participation requirements, bid dates, and pre-bid meetings to decide whether an opportunity is right for them. This helps reduce uncertainty and supports smarter pursuit decisions.

Clarity leads to confidence and better participation.

See outreach opportunities beyond the bid documents

Through our sister platform, GFE Outreach, BidAmerica helps small and DBE businesses discover contractor outreach notices and participation opportunities tied to active public works projects.

Contractor outreach requirements are often published separately from project listings and can be difficult for small and DBE businesses to track. Through GFE Outreach, BidAmerica provides visibility into subcontractor and supplier outreach notices.

Centralized visibility into contractor outreach efforts.
Discover participation opportunities tied to active bids.
Identify when primes are actively seeking DBE, MBE, SBE, or other participation.

GFE Outreach is a sister platform to BidAmerica focused on contractor outreach visibility.

GFE Outreach platform interface

Start finding better projects today

Join thousands of California contractors who use BidAmerica to discover opportunities and win more public works bids.