Does Bid Ocean list plan-holders on all projects?
No, not all agencies or designers will provide the information. Bid Ocean does have more plan-holder lists than any other bid lead service. Bid Ocean requests plan-holder lists and bid tabulations on all construction projects and enters plan-holders on all other procurement solicitations from agencies who make the information available online or who send it to us. When agencies are non-responsive we make repeated requests. Bid Ocean aggressively pursues bid tabulation data for some types of projects and has low-bidder data on nearly 100% of the types of projects deemed to be the highest priority. Not all states have procurement laws requiring government agencies to provide plan-holder lists. Some states have lax procurement laws and agencies use the lack of legal requirements as an excuse to engage in less than transparent procurement practices. In New Jersey, many agencies claim that revealing the identity of bidders is a violation of privacy laws (which it isn’t), while other New Jer
