General Services
**MARKET RESEARCH** PAINT, WATER-BASED, TRAFFIC
Evaluate the scope, inspect historical evidence, and cost your response.
- Response date
- 2026-10-20
- Work location
- Confirm in solicitation
- Set-aside
- Confirm eligibility in solicitation
1. Understand the work
Review the full solicitation and amendments for deliverables, qualifications, contract structure, and submission requirements.
Read SpendLedger’s original summary
2. Evaluate five historical contracts
Compare the work and financial evidence. Similar wording identifies research candidates; it does not establish equivalent scope or market pricing.
5 of 5 comparisons found.
Contract record 601:19029277
Department of Transportation
Shared scope: specific wording: water based. Historical evidence: water based. Scope similarity does not establish equivalent staffing, quantities or pricing.
- Original award
- Not provided
- Current contract value
- $79,372.00
- Reported spending
- Not provided
- Labor rates / hours
- Not provided
- Expenses / profit
- Not provided
- Award or registration
- 2018-11-07
- Start / end
- Unknown / 2019-08-31
Contract record 601:19060879
Department of Transportation
Shared scope: specific wording: water based. Historical evidence: water based. Scope similarity does not establish equivalent staffing, quantities or pricing.
- Original award
- Not provided
- Current contract value
- $81,128.00
- Reported spending
- Not provided
- Labor rates / hours
- Not provided
- Expenses / profit
- Not provided
- Award or registration
- 2019-01-24
- Start / end
- Unknown / 2019-08-31
Contract record 601:19144473
Department of Transportation
Shared scope: specific wording: water based. Historical evidence: water based. Scope similarity does not establish equivalent staffing, quantities or pricing.
- Original award
- Not provided
- Current contract value
- $81,128.00
- Reported spending
- Not provided
- Labor rates / hours
- Not provided
- Expenses / profit
- Not provided
- Award or registration
- 2019-07-17
- Start / end
- Unknown / 2019-08-31
Contract record 601:19146370
Department of Transportation
Shared scope: specific wording: water based. Historical evidence: water based. Scope similarity does not establish equivalent staffing, quantities or pricing.
- Original award
- Not provided
- Current contract value
- $79,372.00
- Reported spending
- Not provided
- Labor rates / hours
- Not provided
- Expenses / profit
- Not provided
- Award or registration
- 2019-07-26
- Start / end
- Unknown / 2019-08-31
Contract record 601:601290000017674
Department of Transportation
Shared scope: specific wording: water based. Historical evidence: water based. Scope similarity does not establish equivalent staffing, quantities or pricing.
- Original award
- Not provided
- Current contract value
- $190,806.00
- Reported spending
- Not provided
- Labor rates / hours
- Not provided
- Expenses / profit
- Not provided
- Award or registration
- 2020-02-11
- Start / end
- Unknown / 2020-08-31
What winning awards tell us about price
No verified original award amounts are available in these comparisons. Current contract values, ceilings, and spending are not substituted for winning prices.
Evidence needed to produce a suggested range
- Winning award price and date, with the pricing schedule.
- Comparable deliverables, contract terms, location, and duration.
- Quantities or units that support a like-for-like calculation.
Similar wording alone does not establish equivalent work. The cost model below remains useful while these facts are missing.
Related active procurements
Finding related current procurements…
Federal award evidence
Search USAspending for historical federal contracts using a work phrase from any sector. These are keyword candidates, not matched comparables or unit-price estimates.
Sign in to run a lookup. Nothing is requested until you select the button. Up to 20 awards and five detail lookups per request.
No federal lookup requested.
3. Build your recommended bid
Enter the resources needed for your proposed scope. This recommendation uses your costs and target margin. Historical totals above are research context and are not automatically treated as competing prices.
Build your cost-based bid
This recommendation uses your costs and target margin. It is not a market-validated bid and includes no competitor rates or win probabilities. All amounts are USD.
Overhead applies to labor + expenses. Contingency applies after overhead. Price = total cost ÷ (1 − margin). Avoid counting overhead already included in loaded hourly cost.
Enter every percentage, including 0. Maximum: 100 rows per section, 1,000,000 hours or hourly cost, $100,000,000 per expense, 1,000% overhead or contingency, 99.99% margin, and $1 billion recommended price. Up to two decimals per numeric input.
Draft is not saved. Drafts are visible to others using this browser profile.