How It Works
How It Works For
Service Providers
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Receive Bid Requests
As new bid requests that match the service(s) you offer are submitted, we notify you.
Accept or Decline
Review bid request details and choose to accept or decline the opportunity to submit a bid.
Submit Bid Online
Upload your bid and promotional materials on MinuteBids for property managers to review.
Save Time & Money
Only pay if you submit a bid.
Review bid requests in detail and talk to property managers. We only charge you if you submit a bid, so you never pay for a bad bid request.
Get detailed commercial bid requests.
Bid requests include a detailed scope of work, so you'll know exactly what is needed and can be competitive with your bid. See Example.
Eliminated pre-bid site visits.
We provide detailed aerial photos annotated with project parameters so that you can do a virtual property walkthrough without visiting the site.
Save bid prep time.
Easily upload your bid documents and marketing materials in seconds. With everything online, sharing information with property managers is quick and easy.
Bid only when they are deciding.
Every bid you submit will be right when the hiring decision is being made because our bid requests come direct from the property managers.
Stop cold calling.
Don't waste your time and energy trying to find new clients. Let us find them for you. We email you when bid requests match your preferences.
Easily subcontract work.
Use MinuteBids to find and get bids from local top-rated service providers to do work for you so you can bid on bigger projects and grow your business.
Pricing
Reviewing a bid request is always free. This includes:
- Looking over the detailed scope of work.
- Viewing annotated aerial maps of the property.
- Talking to the property manager.
-- All before you bid! -- All before you get charged!
Once you decide to submit a bid online, we charge you 0.25% of your total bid price. If you are awarded the project, we charge you an additional 2.25% of your total bid price.
Example: If you submit a bid for a $1,000 project, you would be charged $2.50. If you win the project, you would be charged an additional $22.50.
Get paid for referrals.
Reduce your own costs by helping us grow our network.
What Affects Matching
Service Areas & Services Provided
You can only be matched to a project in your service areas and you must be able to provide all the services that are requested. Increase your service areas and provide additional services to be matched to more projects. Remember, you can use our subcontracting feature to find service providers to help you on a project.
Customer Ratings & Reviews
Your service performance directly affects how often you will be matched to future bid requests. After you complete each project awarded through MinuteBids, the property managers rate your performance. The higher your ratings the more frequently MinuteBids will chose you for projects.
Matching Score
As part of our matching engine, we monitor which bid requests you respond to and how often, and whether you submit bids on projects you have accepted. Frequently accepting bid requests and submitting bids for those requests increases the number of future bid requests you'll receive. And vice versa -- the more you reject, the less likely you are to receive new bid requests. When you are busy or out of town, you can turn bid requests off.
Uploading your bid on Minutebids is mandatory, if you submit your bid in any other way we will stop matching you with new bid requests.
What Bid Requests Include
- Detailed Instructions
- Area Measurements
- Annotated Aerial Property Photos
- Prospect Contact Info
- View Example Project »
Expand Through Subcontracting
Use Subcontractors to Provide More Services and Get Matched More Often
Bid requests are only matched to service providers who can provide all of the requested services themselves or through subcontractors. When selecting the services you provide, simply specify which additional services you use subcontractors to provide.
Once you've selected additional services, MinuteBids makes it extremely simple to get bids for these services from subcontractors.
Learn how to get bids from subcontractors.