What bidding costs.
Get a rough idea in a few seconds. Every 
PursuitOne solicitation, from screening the opportunity to a submission-ready packet. gets a fixed quote before any work starts.
An estimate. Your quote comes before any work starts.
At 24 bids a year, that’s $36,240 saved and 600 hours back.
Those 600 hours make room for about 75 more bids a year with the same team.
Survey averages: across companies, for federal contractors.
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A fixed quote, every time.
Send a SolicitationThe buyer’s request for bids: an RFP, RFQ, or full bid package.. We price it before any work starts.
Sized to the work
A short quote costs a fraction of a full proposal (forms, pricing, staffing).
Below your in-house cost
We prefer to only take a pursuit when our quote beats what the same work would cost your team. Lucky for us, that’s always been the case.
Never tied to winning
Fees don’t depend on the award. Federal rules bar most fees that do.4
You keep the calls
We screen for fit, draft, and build the forms. You decide, sign, and submit.
Your facts, kept on file
We reuse them, so you aren’t asked for the same information on every bid. The UK government puts that repeat work at about 5 hours a procurement.8
Bids you can’t win.
Before any writing, we check the hard rules: eligibility, Set-asideA contract reserved for certain businesses, such as small, veteran-owned, or 8(a) firms., licenses, ownership, and required forms. Anything that rules you out comes first.
Disqualified at submission
For your 24 bids a year, that’s about 32 to 119 hours on bids that get disqualified, or $2,940 to $10,950.
Found too late
Matching tells you about eligible notices while there’s still time to bid.
No published study measures the hours a company spends before finding out it can’t bid.
Bids abandoned partway through aren’t counted anywhere.
Other ways to staff it.
A hire, a contractor, or a Bid deskA team that finds, writes, and manages a company’s bids. of your own.
Build a bid desk
Plus $156K to set up, and six to twelve months before it runs.
ResponseRail
Below your in-house cost, or we don’t take it.
When we’re not a fit.
We’d tell you no early rather than waste your week.
A full proposal team
You already run one.
Short, rare responses
The hours aren’t a burden.
Sensitive work
It involves CUIControlled Unclassified Information: sensitive government data that comes with handling rules., classified, export-controlled, or health data.
Someone to own it all
You want someone else to own the whole proposal.
With us, you decide, sign, and submit.
How we got these numbers
A response takes about 27 hours at small companies and 33 on average, from a 2026 survey of proposal teams. A full pursuit, from screening to a submission-ready packet, takes about 51 by our own count. Proposal work costs about $92 an hour in-house: median pay, plus benefits, tools, and overhead. ResponseRail saves about 76% of those hours on our engagements to date. The bid desk figures come from our own model of a three-person desk. The market, bid desk and price figures are estimates, not a quote; the 76% is measured.
- 1Loopio, 2026 RFP Trends Report, run with APMP; self-reportedOct 2026
- 2BLS, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Project Management SpecialistsOct 2026
- 3BLS, Employer Costs for Employee CompensationOct 2026
- 4FAR 52.203-5, Covenant Against Contingent FeesOct 2026
- 5GSA, Contract-Awarded Labor Category (CALC): ceiling rates, not prices paidOct 2026
- 6Euna Solutions, “Vendor disqualifications: why they happen,” 2020: platform data, 6,000+ public-sector RFPsOct 2026
- 7Deltek, GovCon Clarity 2026: 917 contractors, self-reported (via GovConWire)Oct 2026
- 8UK Procurement Bill Impact Assessment, 2022, section 6Oct 2026
Got a solicitation?
Send it over. We’ll tell you whether it fits and quote it before any work starts.