Bid deadline planner
Enter the due date and get a working-day schedule for the five steps of a response, with your question deadline and pre-bid meeting on it. Export a CSV or print it.
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Start with the due date. Everything else is optional.
Your plan
Add a due date
Enter the date the bid is due.
What you type stays in this browser and is not sent to us, and the dates are not saved.
How the plan is built
The planner counts working days from your start date to the due date, takes off the days you choose to submit early, and spreads five steps over what is left: read and decide, build the compliance list and ask questions, draft, review, and finish and submit. Weekends and the days off you list are skipped, unless you count weekends as working days.
The split follows the schedule in our article on how long you get to respond: 2, 5, 9, 5 and 3 parts of 24. With 24 working days left to plan, after any early-submission days, you get exactly those day counts. With fewer, each step shrinks in proportion and keeps at least a day. Under five working days the steps cannot each have one, so they share days and the planner says so.
How your window compares
If you enter the date the bid was posted, the planner places the window against our measurement of 13,116 US state and local bids due August 3 to November 1, 2026. The median gave about 24 days from posting to due date. 16.7% gave fewer than 14 days, 32.7% gave 30 or more, and 7.6% gave 45 or more.
Those are calendar days from the posting date the source gave to the latest due date we recorded. They cover US state and local bids only, and most of our sources are collected weekly, so bids that open and close within days are under-counted. The method is in the full article.
What it does not know
It does not know which days your buyer's office is closed, so add holidays as days off. It cannot see addenda, which can move a due date, so change the date here when one does. Take the exact deadline, time zone and submission rules from the solicitation itself.
Your data
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