Construction Bids from Legal Notices
Some government entities are still required to advertise bids in newspapers. It's old school, but it's real work. If you're not reading local legal notice sections, you're missing jobs that your competitors who do read them are winning.
Why legal notices still matter
State laws often require public entities to advertise bids in a newspaper of record. For smaller townships and villages, this might be the only place they post. No website, no bid platform, just a legal notice in the county paper. It's old-fashioned, but it's real work. And most contractors have stopped paying attention.
Less competition for those paying attention
Nobody wants to read through newspaper legal sections. Foreclosures, name changes, zoning hearings, and somewhere in there, a $200K road paving job. That's exactly why there's less competition on these bids. The contractors who figure out where to look win work that others don't even know exists.
Township and village work
Townships, villages, and small authorities often rely on legal notices because they don't have sophisticated procurement systems. No portal, no email list, just an ad in the paper and whoever shows up to bid. The work is real even if the posting method is old-fashioned. Road repairs, building maintenance, utility projects. Smaller scopes, but consistent.
Tight windows require systematic checking
Legal notice bids sometimes have shorter windows. The notice runs, the deadline hits, and if you weren't reading the paper that week, you missed it. Being systematic about checking matters. We scan legal sections from papers across our coverage area, filter out the non-construction content, and surface the bids so you don't have to subscribe to a dozen papers.
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