Not every campus laundry RFP posts publicly. A private college, or a public university running an invited process, can send the RFP straight to a few providers it knows. The RFP skips the portal, and a provider either has the relationship to receive it or never sees it.
Why it skips the portal
A private institution controls who receives its RFP, and even public institutions sometimes run invited concession processes. The package can be as detailed as any public bid, with the revenue, service, and equipment terms, but it arrives by invitation.
What handles it
Once the RFP lands, the work is to answer it well and on time. The response agent reads the full package, builds the requirements matrix, scores the go or no go, and drafts from past concessions and installs, the same way it would for a public bid. the bid response agent reads the full private RFP the moment it lands.
How the two work together
Our discovery agent surfaces the public campus work a provider can find, and the response agent handles the private and invited RFPs that arrive directly, so a provider is covered whether the work is published or not.
The agent is honest about the off portal RFP and hands it to the response side to answer. See the higher education and public housing laundry bid agent in the interactive demo.