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The template program
A fall-protection program bought online names nobody, covers nothing you actually do, and misses the line the reviewer is reading for. Reviewers check programs line by line against the platform's own list. Generic fails.
Datum Bid Co. — Contractor prequalification, done for you
Locked out of a job site over paperwork?
Approved or you don't pay.
Your customer picked ISNetworld, Avetta, Veriforce, ComplyWorks or Cognibox. Now your safety programs, questionnaires, insurance and stats have to pass its reviewers before a crew gets on site. I write it, upload it, fix every rejection and keep you green. Flat fee per platform, and nothing is due until the platform shows you approved.
The check is free, comes back in 24 hours, and needs no call.
- Flat fees, published
- Nothing due until approved
- Every rejection fixed free
- 14-day rush available
DATUM 001Why grades fail
Why good contractors sit at a C
Nobody in a five-to-seventy-five-person shop has forty spare hours to learn a prequalification platform, so the owner does it at night and submits what's on hand. The reviewer isn't grading your safety. They're grading whether each document says what their checklist says it must. Three things fail over and over.
02
The certificate that doesn't match
Your insurance is fine. The certificate on file isn't: wrong limit, client not named as additional insured, expired last month. The grade drops and the first you hear of it is from the client.
03
Nobody watching the clock
Annual stats come due. A hiring client adds a requirement. A certificate lapses. Each one is a quiet downgrade, and reviews take days to clear, so a month of green turns into six weeks of red.
DATUM 002The guarantee
Defined in the engagement letter
Approved or you don't pay
For every platform I take on, the approval fee is invoiced only when the platform shows the documents I prepared as accepted. No deposit, no retainer, no hourly clock. If a document I wrote is rejected, I fix it and resubmit until it's accepted, at no charge, for as long as you're a client.
The scope is defined, not left to argument. I guarantee the parts a writer controls:
- written safety programs, matched to the platform's own checklist;
- questionnaire answers;
- document reviews, including the insurance certificate matching the client's requirement.
You supply what only you have (certificates of insurance, three years of injury logs, training records) within five business days of my asking. What I can't guarantee is a grade that depends on your injury rates, your experience modification rate, your insurance limits or a hiring client's own standards. Those are facts about your company. I'll tell you plainly which ones are holding the grade down and what fixes them, and I won't pretend a document does.
DATUM 003Process
How an account gets approved here
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Scorecard check
Send what your dashboard shows. Within 24 hours: what's failing, why, what it takes to fix, and whether your client's deadline is safe.
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Intake
One call or one email thread. I collect the things only you have: certificates, injury logs, training records, and how your crews actually do the work.
03
Written for your operations
Every program is drafted from what your people actually do, then checked line by line against the reviewer's checklist for that platform. Nothing generic, nothing invented.
04
Uploaded and answered
I work inside your account as an authorized user you add. Questionnaires answered, documents uploaded, in the order reviewers want them. You keep ownership and can remove me any day.
05
Rejections fixed
Reviews take days. When one comes back, I read the reviewer's note, fix the document and resubmit the same day. Repeat until approved. The fee waits for this step.
06
Kept green
Expiring certificates, annual stats, new hiring-client requirements: tracked and handled before the grade drops. One monthly report tells you where you stand on every platform.
The fee is tied to step five's result. That's what makes step one free.
DATUM 004Free scorecard check
Failing a grade? Send what the dashboard says.
One page, free, back within 24 hours on business days:
- every item marked deficient, in plain words
- which ones a document fixes, and which ones are facts about your company
- what it takes, how long, and whether your client's deadline is safe
If the honest answer is that you can fix it yourself in an afternoon, the page says so. No call. No drip campaign. The page is how I show the work instead of claiming it.
Got it.
Your one-page check comes back within 24 hours on business days, from brent@datumbid.com. If you have a screenshot of the scorecard or the deficiency list, reply to that email with it and the page gets sharper.
What happens to what you send: read by me, nobody else. Never shared, never quoted, never reused in another contractor's submission. Deleted if you ask.
DATUM 005Pricing
Flat fees, published
Sized before work starts. Never adjusted after. The approval fee is invoiced on approval, not before.
Scorecard check
Free 24 hours, no call
One page: what's failing, what fixes it, how long it takes, whether the deadline is safe. Yours to keep whether or not you hire me.
Approved or you don't pay
Platform approval and upkeep
$2,000 per platform, per year
Setup, written programs, questionnaires, uploads, every rejection fixed, certificate tracking, annual stats, monthly report. Invoiced when the platform shows you approved. Renews yearly.
Each additional platform
$1,500 per platform, per year
Same scope. Most documents carry across; the questionnaires don't, so each platform still gets answered on its own terms.
14-day rush
+$1,000 one time
Contract on the line, audit due, grade just dropped. Complete intake to full submission in ten business days. The platform's reviewers set their own clock after that.
Single bid
$1,500–$3,500 flat, by contract size
One government tender end to end: compliance matrix, evaluator-mapped response, everything verified, your signature. Carries the written compliance guarantee.
Bid Desk
$750–$1,500 per month
I watch the portals against your profile, score every candidate bid or no-bid, and keep your bid library current. Member rate on every bid written.
Platform fees assume one company account; subsidiaries are separate accounts. The platforms' own subscription fees are paid to them directly. US engagements priced in USD.
DATUM 006Who this is for
Built for the contractors the platforms were built against
Electrical and instrumentation. Mechanical and piping. Scaffolding and insulation. Industrial cleaning and vacuum trucks. Fabrication and millwrights. Snow, grounds, janitorial, security.
Contractors with five to seventy-five people whose customer, a refinery, a utility, a property manager, a general contractor, picked the platform. You didn't choose it, you can't avoid it, and nobody in the office has forty to eighty hours to learn it.
Platforms: ISNetworld, Avetta, Veriforce (including the old BROWZ and PEC programs), ComplyWorks, Cognibox. Regions: the Gulf Coast, Ontario, and anywhere else the platforms reach. COR is different: it's a certification, not a platform. I prepare the documentation and the internal audit; IHSA and its auditors decide.
DATUM 007Bid writing
Bid writing is still here
Datum Bid Co. started as a bid-writing desk for contractors selling to government in Canada and the United States, and that work continues: every mandatory tracked in a compliance matrix, the response built on the buyer's own scoresheet, every claim verified against your documents, and your signature on every form.
The guarantee is the same kind: if a bid I prepare is rejected for administrative non-compliance, the full fee comes back. Lost a bid recently? Email it to brent [at] datumbid.com for a free 48-hour autopsy: the mandatories you missed, the criteria you under-evidenced, and whether you actually lost on price.
Why first government bids get rejected · The COR bid-disqualifier
DATUM 008Questions
Straight answers
What's your track record?
Short, and I won't dress it up. Datum Bid Co. opened in June 2026 as a bid-writing desk; platform approvals are the newest service. That's why the first step is free and the fee waits for the approval. When there's a sample size worth publishing, it will be here.
Do you guarantee my grade?
No. I guarantee that the documents I write get accepted, and I fix them until they are. Your grade also depends on injury rates, your experience modification rate, insurance limits and a hiring client's own standards. I'll tell you exactly which of those is holding you down. I won't pretend a document fixes it.
Whose account is it?
Yours. I work inside it as an authorized user you add, and you can remove me any day. I never open accounts in my own name and never represent certifications you don't hold.
Do you use AI?
For drafting speed, yes. Every program is then checked by me against how your crews actually work and against the platform's own checklist before anything is uploaded. Your material never enters public tools and never appears in another contractor's submission.
How fast are you?
Scorecard check in 24 hours. Complete first submission within 20 business days of complete intake, or 10 business days on rush. After that the platform's reviewers set the clock: expect days per review cycle, so budget three to six weeks to a clean approval.
What do you need from me?
Fifteen minutes to add me to your account, then the things only you have: certificates of insurance, three years of injury logs, training records, and honest answers about how work actually gets done. Five-business-day turnarounds on my requests keep the guarantee intact.
Can you do COR or ISO 45001?
I prepare the documentation and the internal audit for COR 2020; IHSA and its auditors decide. Priced separately after the scorecard check, never sold as the certificate.
Do you still write bids?
Yes. Flat-fee government bid writing with the written compliance guarantee continues, and the free 48-hour bid autopsy is still on offer by email.
DATUM 009Start
Your customer's deadline doesn't move.
Send what your dashboard shows. Within 24 hours you'll know what's failing, what fixes it, and whether the deadline is safe. Free, and no call.
Get the free scorecard check