To review a search result in full, click View details on its card. That opens the Bid Details page, which gathers everything you need for a bid or no-bid decision in one place: key dates, the solicitation type and NAICS code, an estimated budget, an AI effort rating, the original documents, and the buyer's contact details.
How Do I Open the Bid Details Page?
- Run a search and find an opportunity in your results.
- Click View details at the bottom right of the result card, or click the bid's title.
- Use Back to results at the top left to return to your search with your filters intact.
What Is at the Top of the Page?
The header carries the issuing agency and state, the solicitation title, and a row of tags: the closing date, the estimated value range, the solicitation type, and where the data came from. Four actions sit underneath:
- See how to respond: opens guidance for responding to this specific solicitation.
- Bid source: opens the issuing agency's own posting in a new tab.
- The banana button: saves the bid to your Favorites. Once saved it reads Favorited; click it again to remove it.
- The flag icon: reports inaccurate data on the listing so our team can correct it.
What Do the Side Panels Tell Me?
Four panels run down the right-hand side. Between them they answer most bid or no-bid questions before you open a single document.
Key Dates
Every date that governs the response, which can include Opened, Questions due, Pre-bid meeting, Closes and the contract Duration. A pre-bid meeting marked Mandatory is a disqualifier if you miss it, so check that line before anything else. The panel also shows when the listing was last updated.
Details
The classification facts: solicitation Type (Request for Proposal, Invitation for Bid, Request for Quotation and so on), Industry, NAICS code, and the Solicitation №. That number is what you quote when you contact the agency or our support team.
Estimated Effort
An AI estimate of how much work the response will take, rated Light, Moderate or Heavy, with the specific reasons underneath — mandatory certifications and forms, required pre-bid attendance, technical narrative requirements and so on. Treat it as a triage signal rather than a verdict, and confirm the specifics in the solicitation itself.
Budget Estimate
An estimated contract value range, with a short explanation of how it was reached from the scope of work, the number of locations and the contract term. Useful for deciding whether an opportunity is worth your time before you read 60 pages.
◆ NOTE: Estimated effort and budget estimate are AI-generated from the solicitation. They are there to help you prioritise, not to replace reading the source documents.
What Is in the Description Section?
A plain-English summary of the solicitation, followed by a bulleted list of the requirements that matter most — pricing basis, reference requirements, compliance obligations, and anything else that would disqualify an unprepared bidder. Click Show more to expand the full text.
Where Are the Original Bid Documents?
Look at the Attached files section. Where the agency publishes documents we can link to, you will find them listed there by name — bid documents, event details, and any amendments or Q&A the agency has issued. Amendments matter: they frequently change deadlines and locations after the original posting.
Some agencies keep their documents behind their own portal. In that case the section tells you the solicitation documents live at the source, and you use the Bid source button at the top of the page to go and download them.
💡 Tip: Some agencies require a free account on their own portal before they will release documents. If you would rather not run into that mid-search, tick Hide bids needing an extra login under the Access filter on the results page.
Who Do I Contact About the Bid?
The Contact section lists the buyer or procurement officer named on the solicitation, with their role, email address and phone number where the agency has published them. This is who to ask about scope or submission questions — and questions almost always have their own deadline, shown as Questions due in Key dates.
How Do I Save a Bid for Later?
Click the banana button in the action row. Saved bids collect under the Favorites tab, split into Open and Closed and sorted by Closing soon so the most urgent deadline is at the top. You can re-sort by Recently added or Title A–Z, and remove a bid with the trash icon on its card. How to Navigate Bid Banana covers the Favorites tab in more depth.
What Are Similar Opportunities?
At the foot of the page, Similar opportunities lists other live bids resembling the one you are reading. It is the quickest way to find out whether a single result is a one-off or part of a steady stream of work you should be searching for regularly.
What Should I Check Before Deciding to Bid?
- Check the dates first. Can you meet the closing date, and has a mandatory pre-bid meeting already passed? If either answer is wrong, nothing else matters.
- Sanity-check the size. Compare the budget estimate and contract duration against the work you can realistically deliver.
- Read the requirement bullets. Minimum qualifications, references and certifications are where most no-bid decisions actually get made.
- Open the source documents. Confirm the deadline, the submission method and every amendment against the agency's own posting before you commit.
- Decide and act. Not a fit? Move on. Promising? Save it to Favorites. Worth pursuing but complicated? Send it to our team.
💡 Tip: If you are unsure whether to bid, email the solicitation to support@bidbanana.com with the deadline and what your company does. Our RFP team writes back with how they would read it. Include the Solicitation № or the link to this page so they can find it fast.
And if a listing itself looks wrong, click the flag icon to report inaccurate data — then treat the agency's own posting as authoritative in the meantime. Contact support if you need a person to look at it.