The dashboard

• Active jobs only: status New, Reviewing, Pursuing or Bidding. Jobs marked Submitted or No bid drop off the list.
• Bids still open, plus jobs with no bid date stated.
• Soonest bid date first.
• 100 jobs per page. Use Next and Previous at the bottom.

The line above the table shows how many jobs match. All times are Central.

Project

The job name and the agency or GC. Needs a check means something about the listing looked off. Hover over it, or open the job, to see why.

Fence fit

How likely the job includes fence work: Likely (70% or higher), Possible (30% to 69%) or Unlikely (under 30%). Not checked yet means BidTroller hasn’t read it yet. main scope means fence is the main work. Short flags sit under it, like service area or fence type. See A job page.

Location

City or county and state. city not listed by source means the listing gave only the state. from facility named means BidTroller found the place from the facility the listing names.

Miles

Straight-line miles to your nearest office, with that office’s name under it. Hover to see the miles to each office. county means it was measured from the county center. Not stated means no location was given.

Bids due

The bid deadline, or Not stated.

Pre-bid

The pre-bid meeting or site visit. Mandatory shows the days left and turns red at 3 days or less. Missed · mandatory means the meeting already happened, so you likely can’t bid. Optional, mandatory? not stated or None listed cover the rest.

Value

The estimated value or range, when the listing gives one.

Found on

Every place BidTroller saw this job. Click a name to open the original listing. If the same job shows up on several sites, BidTroller merges it into one row.

Status

Where your team is with the job. You change it on the job page.

Click any column name to sort by it. Click it again to reverse the order. An arrow shows the current sort.

Set the filters in the box above the table, then click Apply filters. Click Clear to go back to the default view.

Search

Searches everything, including the text inside attached PDFs. Put words in quotes for an exact phrase, like "anti-climb". Put a minus in front of a word to leave it out, like -janitorial.

Status

Tick the statuses you want. With none ticked you see active jobs only. Tick All, incl. submitted and no-bid to see every job.

Fence fit

Likely, Possible, Unlikely or Not checked. Tick more than one to combine them.

State

Only jobs in the states you tick.

Bids due

Still open, Next 7 days, Next 30 days, Already closed, or Any date.

Within miles

Only jobs within that many straight-line miles of one of your offices. Jobs with no stated location drop out while this is set.

Value at least

Only jobs with a stated value at or above this amount.

Pre-bid

Mandatory only, or Hide missed mandatory to drop jobs you can no longer bid.

Needs a check

Only jobs with a listing that looked off.

A saved view keeps a set of filters and a sort so you can get back to it in one click.

1. Set your filters and sort.
2. Type a name in Name this view, like “TX chain link, next 30 days”.
3. Click Save view.

Your views show as buttons at the top of the page. Click × on a view to delete it. Saved views are yours alone. To share a view with a teammate, copy the page address from your browser and send it.

The Calendar and Export to spreadsheet (CSV) links above the table use the filters you have set. See Calendar and export.