For California bidders & service providers

Every California solicitation, one email a day.

RFP Scout scans 13 procurement portals covering 200+ California agencies every morning and delivers every public solicitation — construction, services, goods, and IT — filtered by your NAICS codes, certifications, and counties. No keyword guesswork. No manual portal crawling.

Free during beta · No credit card required · First digest arrives in minutes

How it works

Three steps. Then wake up to matched opportunities.

1

Choose your sources

Pick which of the 13 portals to scan — or leave all on to cover every one of the 200+ California agencies we track.

2

Set your filters

Select your industry NAICS codes (e.g. 236220 Commercial Construction), any certifications you hold (DVBE, SB, SDVOSB, MBE, WBE), and the counties where you work. No keyword guesswork — we match on structured fields.

3

Get your daily digest

Every morning at 8:30 AM PT, the matching opportunities land in your inbox — grouped by source, sorted by bid deadline, with direct links to the agency portal.

Coverage

13 portals. 200+ California agencies.

State, local, transit, university, and federal procurement — all in one daily digest.

SAM.gov

federal

Federal procurement opportunities in California

1
agency

LA Metro

local

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority solicitations

1
agency

Bonfire

local

Public sector procurement for 14 California agencies (transit, water, airports, state JPAs, K-12)

14
agencies

OpenGov

local

Municipal procurement portals for 23 California agencies

23
agencies

SFPUC

local

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission — water, wastewater, and power infrastructure construction

1
agency

EBMUD

local

East Bay Municipal Utility District — water and wastewater capital projects in Alameda and Contra Costa counties

1
agency

BidNet Direct CA (statewide)

local

Federated CA Purchasing Group aggregator (~70 local agencies). Listings are agency-blind on the free tier; all bids stamped county=Statewide

1
agency

City of LA Open Data

local

City of Los Angeles procurement via open data API

12
agencies

PlanetBids

local

Local agency procurement portal covering 98 California cities, districts, schools, and utilities

98
agencies

Cal eProcure

state

California state agency procurement portal covering 26+ state departments

26
agencies

Caltrans CCOP

state

California Department of Transportation construction projects

1
agency

CSU Campuses

university

California State University system procurement across 23 campuses

23
agencies

UC Campuses

university

University of California system procurement across 10 campuses

11
agencies
Why contractors pick RFP Scout

Built for the trades, not the desk jockeys.

No keyword guesswork

Every record is tagged with NAICS codes and certifications by a dedicated AI classifier at 90% confidence before it hits your digest. You set structured filters, not search strings.

Every set-aside, matched.

First-class support for DVBE, SB, SDVOSB, WOSB, MBE, WBE, DBE, and federal 8(a) set-asides. Matches on explicit preference language — not buried footnotes.

One email, not 62 tabs

Instead of logging into Cal eProcure, PlanetBids, Bonfire, SAM.gov, and eight other portals every morning, you get one digest grouped by source with direct bid links.

Stop missing projects in your own backyard.

Sign up in 3 minutes. Your first matched digest arrives in minutes, then daily at 8:30 AM PT.

Start finding projects

Free during beta · No credit card required