A large share of higher education is private, and a private university or college is not a public buyer. It can run its laundry purchase or concession privately, sending the RFP to a shortlist rather than posting it. Discovery cannot find what was never published.
Why discovery cannot find them
A private institution has no obligation to advertise, so it controls who receives the RFP. There is no portal posting for a monitoring agent to catch, and pretending otherwise would mislead a dealer about where part of the campus market really is.
What handles the private RFP instead
When a private university sends a dealer or operator its laundry RFP, the work shifts from finding it to answering it: reading the full package, checking every requirement, scoring the go or no go, and drafting the response. Discovery finds the public campus work, and the bid response agent reads the full private RFP the moment it lands.
How the two work together
Our discovery agent covers the public university bids, the concessions, and the cooperative channel, and is honest that private institution RFPs sit outside it. The response agent then handles those private packages when they arrive, so the campus market is covered across the two.
The agent covers the public campus work and hands the private RFPs to the response side. See the higher education and public housing laundry bid agent in the interactive demo.