Alberta · British Columbia · Saskatchewan · Manitoba
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An engineering firm issues a sub-consultant RFP on Monday and bids on a municipal tender on Tuesday. Permissions follow the organization, the project and the solicitation, not a fixed buyer or supplier label.
Owners, municipalities, general contractors and engineering firms. Always free.
Contractors, trades, consultants and vendors.
Features
The whole process in one record: issuing, bidding, opening, levelling, award and what comes after.
A sealed bid is encrypted when it is submitted. Nobody can read it until the tender closes and a named person records the opening.
Invite an address that is not on TroyBid yet. The supplier signs up free and lands on your tender, ready to respond.
Search listed suppliers by trade, province or city, verified credentials and bonding capacity. You reach them through an invitation, never a published email address.
After the opening, compare bids line by line with alternates, allowances and exclusions flagged. Add adjustments and notes, then export to Excel or CSV.
WCB and WSIB clearance, COR, liability insurance, bonding and licences, with expiry dates in view and renewal reminders for suppliers.
Save a tender as a template, start a new one from it, or copy a previous tender.
Suppliers price from their own cost library and count and measure directly on the buyer's drawings.
Purchase orders, change orders, progress claims and holdback, with prompt-payment deadlines from a provincial rules table that cites each statute.
Public notices imported from CanadaBuys and the City of Winnipeg, free in full with alerts, and clearly labelled as external.
How it works
Four steps, each recorded, from the first posting to an award you can explain.
Create a project and issue an RFQ, RFP or invitation to tender. Add drawings and specifications, and fix how you will score bids before anyone sees it.
Invite chosen suppliers by email, open it to everyone, or restrict it to a qualified list. Questions and numbered addenda reach every eligible bidder the same way.
Suppliers price and submit inside TroyBid. A sealed tender stays unreadable until it closes and you record the opening. Every accepted bid gets a receipt.
Level bids line by line, score against the weights you published, and record an award with your reasons. TroyBid never picks a winner for you.
Sealed means sealed
Sealed bid content is encrypted when it is submitted and stays unreadable to the buyer until the opening is recorded.
The interface, the API, exports, downloads, search, notifications and support tools all ask the same single rule.
A bid is accepted only inside a server transaction that checks the closing time against the database clock. Clicking a button is not submission.
An accepted revision and every attachment are frozen by hash. A later addendum or award leaves the receipt exactly as issued.
Alongside opportunities posted here, TroyBid imports public notices from CanadaBuys. Those are marked clearly as external: TroyBid helps you find and prepare for them, and the buyer's own instructions govern where the bid is actually delivered. TroyBid will never tell you an externally delivered bid was submitted, because it has no receipt to prove it.
Buyers never pay. Suppliers start with government tenders and invitations, free, and add a plan when they want private projects.