More plumbing work. In front of the person who awards it.

Which plumbing jobs is Bidli built to win?

Installation and replacement work: the jobs that fill a schedule for weeks instead of an afternoon. Bidli works four lanes for a plumbing company, and you choose the mix.

• New construction: underground, rough-in, and finish on every house in a new community, plus multifamily and commercial new builds. The new construction lane.
• Commercial: restaurant build-outs with grease interceptors, medical and dental offices, tenant improvements, hotels, and repipes across apartment communities. The commercial lane.
• Government: schools, public housing, municipal buildings, and park restroom renovations. The government lane.
• High-margin residential: whole-house repipes, water heater replacements, tankless conversions, and sewer line replacements. The high-margin residential lane.

How does a plumbing contractor get on a builder's trade list?

Builders keep plumbers for a long time. A plumbing trade partner who runs clean underground, hits the rough-in schedule, and shows up for finish on time is hard to replace, and switching costs the builder time on every house. That loyalty means most builders are not shopping for a plumber on any given day.

It also means there are moments when they will switch: a new community opens in an area their plumber does not cover, their plumber falls behind, or they grow faster than their plumber can. The plumbing company already known to the purchasing manager or construction manager when that moment comes gets the community. Bidli tracks new builds breaking ground in your territory, finds the builder behind each one, and keeps your company in front of the right person, in your name, until the door opens.

Who awards commercial and government plumbing work?

On commercial projects under way, the general contractor's estimator carries the plumbing number on bid day and the project manager awards the subcontract. On existing buildings, the property manager or facility manager decides who repipes the apartment community or replaces the water heaters in the hotel. On government work, a procurement officer runs the bid, the facilities director shapes the scope, and on larger projects the prime contractor chooses the plumbing sub.

Each of those people keeps a short list of plumbers they already call. Bidli's job is to put your company on that list: the right person, about the right project, before the number is due, followed up until they know your name.

Do specialty plumbing scopes open more doors?

Yes. A general contractor bidding a restaurant needs a plumber who knows grease interceptors and commercial kitchen layouts. A medical or dental build-out needs a plumbing contractor qualified for medical gas. A multifamily project needs a sub with the manpower to rough-in floor after floor on schedule. If your company has that capability, it is a real reason for an estimator to take the conversation, and most estimators have only a few names for it.

Bidli leads with what makes your plumbing company different, and it goes after the projects where that difference matters. That puts you in front of the right estimator for the right job, instead of in a pile of numbers on bid day.

Which homes are due for a repipe or a water heater?

Plumbing in a house ages on a schedule. Older homes with galvanized or polybutylene supply lines are candidates for a whole-house repipe. Water heaters wear out, and homeowners who plan ahead often move to tankless when they replace. Aging sewer lines in established neighborhoods fail one house at a time.

Most of that work is sold in an emergency to whoever answers first. Bidli predicts which homes in your territory are coming due and reaches the homeowner first, in your company's name, so the repipe or replacement is planned and priced by you instead of rushed by somebody else.

Why do most plumbing companies never reach the person who awards the work?

Time. The owner is running crews, solving problems on site, and pricing the work already in front of them. Building relationships with builders, estimators, property managers, and procurement offices takes daily, patient follow-up for months, and a busy plumbing company has no one to do it. So the pipeline stays as deep as the relationships the owner already has.

What Bidli does, and what you do

Bidli does the selling. It learns your plumbing business, finds the work in every lane you choose, finds the person who awards it, opens the conversation in your name from your facts only, and follows up for as long as it takes. A builder says to check back when they start the next phase. When the next phase starts, Bidli checks back.

You do what you do best. Bidli hands you the job ready to bid, with the scope, the details, and who awards it. You price it. You win it.

The system behind Bidli has added multiple six figures to subcontractors' bottom lines.