Built for workaholics.
By those in recovery.
ResponseRail is proposal support for small and mid-size contractors. Much larger primes leaned on our two-person team like we were the bigger firm, so we brought it to market.
It’s for you if…
- You bid on public work regularly.
- You have past performance to draw on.
- Proposals land on people with other jobs.
- You’d rather spend your hours on bids you can win.
It’s not for you if…
- You already run a full in-house proposal team.
- The work involves CUI, classified, export-controlled, or health data.
- You want someone else to own and submit the proposal.
Our workflows do the overtime.
Automation reads, writes, and runs its own checks.
Our bid desk does the rest.
We'll check.
If a pursuit asks for something you can’t comply with, like a 
Set-asideA contract reserved for certain businesses, such as small, veteran-owned, or 8(a) firms. you don’t qualify for, we tell you early, before your team burns hours on it.
Matches you can bid.
We scan federal, SLED, and local portals to find opportunities. We identify your eligibility and fit at scale with a robust pipeline, confirm the match, then we tell you about it.
A draft, then revisions.
We write an initial draft from the solicitation and your materials, then revise it with you. You interface with a human professional who works with you as a teammate.
Out the door on time.
Our CaptureThe work of pursuing one opportunity: planning it, coordinating your team, and keeping it on schedule. support stays in touch until the proposal goes out on time. We meet you where you are, and for most clients that’s a phone call.
Watch a response on rails.
Scroll to see the abstract process.
- Step 1
Email a link or the files.
You bring us the solicitation, or we bring you one.
Either way, we confirm the fit first.
Got eBuy?
If you hold a GSA contract, we can watch GSA eBuyGSA’s system where agencies send requests for quotes to GSA contract holders. for you too. To comply with GSA’s rules, a person checks it every day and downloads new requests by hand.
Public opportunities: federal, SLED, and local.
We don’t find teaming partners, and we don’t give legal, insurance, HR, licensing, tax or compliance advice.
Questions
Talk to us. We’ll walk you through how it works and what it would cost for your team. If you’re considering putting together a bid desk, we put together a guide to what that costs.
For any opportunity, we check for alignment. We’ll surface the clear blockers first and provide secondary reasons which can contribute to your decision.
Partly. Automation, including AI, handles the reading, drafting, and its own checks. An experienced bid desk professional reviews every result, talks with your team, and owns their output.
We do not help you get onto GSA MAS. For current schedule holders, a person on our team checks eBuy every day and checks your matches. They do not check solicitations containing CUI. GSA’s rules call for a person, not a script, so this is for companies serious about this contract.
ResponseRail and its team will never submit a response on your behalf. As a measure to protect both parties, you confirm the response, pricing, provide credentials and signatures, and you submit the response yourself.
No. Our GSA eBuy matching deliberately avoids CUI opportunities while matching on the rest.
If your AI knows your requirements, ask if we're a fit.
Got solicitations?
Hand it over the way you would to a coworker.