One company gets Virginia.
We build its bid desk.

Bedrock finds the work, digests the plans, and chases the quotes for exactly one sitework company per state. Virginia is open.

You've been advertising for an estimator. So has everyone else.

Virginia sitework firms are running estimator openings for months at a time, because the person who finds the bids, digests the plans, and chases the vendor quotes is the hardest seat in the industry to fill. Bedrock delivers the desk share of that job, remotely, every week. Your senior people keep the site visits and the final number.

$80,000 to $145,000

posted salary for a Lead Estimator at one Hampton Roads sitework contractor

Wolf Contractors, Newport News, live posting July 2026

3 open reqs at once

one Northern Virginia site-development firm is hiring estimators in three cities simultaneously

B&S Site Development: Manassas, Richmond, Winchester

92% of firms

report difficulty hiring, with estimating among the hardest roles to staff

AGC of America workforce survey

Sample packet

This is the deliverable. Built from live Virginia data.

Every project below was pulled from public procurement sources on July 24, 2026. Nothing is mocked up: you can verify each line at the source. This is what lands in your inbox every Monday.

Bedrock Weekly · Virginia corridor wk of Jul 20, 2026 · public-layer edition
ProjectOwnerScope signalBid dateFit
Route 50 / Everfield Roundabout
eVA · IFB 123390-1
Loudoun County Earthwork incl. unsuitable removal, rock excavation, E&S, VSMP/SWPPP Aug 5 A
Shellhorn Road Extension
Loudoun County bid board
Loudoun County New roadway, sitework package open A
Annual Asphalt In-Place
eVA · ITB 26-2980-7JL
Henrico County Annual paving term contract Jul 29 B
Heritage Park Phase 1
eVA · IFB 124983
City of Lynchburg Demolition, grading, stormwater, E&S, new parking lot Aug 27 B
Rte 620 / Southampton intersection
VDOT CABB · est. $3.88M
VDOT Intersection improvement, letting Aug 26 Aug 26 C
Water Distribution System Improvements
Richmond OpenGov portal
City of Richmond Utility replacement program active C

Fit grades are scored against a client profile (bonding line, radius, crew capacity). Sources this week: eVA (136 open construction solicitations statewide), VDOT CABB letting board, Loudoun, Henrico, and Richmond procurement portals, regional water authorities. In your packet, grades are tuned to your firm in week one.

Project
Route 50 / Everfield Roundabout, IFB 123390-1
Owner
County of Loudoun, Virginia
Posted scope
"Earthwork (including removal of unsuitable material), rock excavation, erosion and sediment control, VSMP/SWPPP compliance."
Bid date
August 5, 2026
Bond check
Virginia public construction over $500K requires a bid bond at submission and performance/payment bonds at award. Checked against your bonding line in the live packet.
Prequalification
County work: no VDOT prequal needed. VDOT lettings require prequalification filed 60+ days before bidding, which we track per client.
Rock risk
Rock excavation named in the scope. Geotech review is the first read: classified vs. unclassified digging changes everything about this bid.
Addenda
Tracked from posting through bid day. Every addendum summarized the day it drops.
Pre-bid meeting dates, plan-holder lists, and competition intel are pulled from the full posting when we build your packet.
Owner qualityPublic county owner, funded project, standard contract terms4/5
Project fitEarthwork and E&S core scope; rock is the swing factor4/5
CapacityBonding headroom and crew availability, checked weekly3/5
CompetitionPlan-holder list watched; NoVA majors likely present2/5
StrategyRepeat-owner potential: Loudoun lets sitework continuously5/5
BID, with conditions Worth pricing if the geotech supports unclassified excavation. The three deciding factors, in plain language, on one page.

Illustrative scoring shown against a sample client profile (mid-size sitework contractor, Fredericksburg radius). Your brief is scored against your real bonding line, crew calendar, and bid history, integrated in week one.

What the digest covers

  • Sheet index and scope summary by phase
  • Unit-price bid schedule structure
  • Spec landmines: liquidated damages, DBE goals, warranty, restoration
  • VESCP/SWPPP triggers and E&S bid items
  • Scope boundaries against other trades
  • RFI-worthy ambiguities, drafted for your letterhead

The geotech red-flag box

  • Rock probability and elevation
  • Groundwater and dewatering exposure
  • Suitable vs. export spoils, shrink and swell shown
  • Classified vs. unclassified excavation language
  • Compaction specs under pavements

The geotech report is the most important document in the package and the one most skimmed. Our digest reads the boring logs first. Quantity takeoffs are produced per engagement, aligned to your bid schedule line items.

VendorPackageQuotedInclusions checkedStatus
from your vendor listTrucking + disposal·tack coat, traffic control, fuelchase day 2
from your vendor listAggregate supply·freight terms, escalationreceived
from your vendor listPrecast structures·lead time, unloadingsent
Quote solicitation runs in your name, from your domain, using your vendor list, after week-one onboarding. The tab sheet levels quotes by scope, not just price: the low number that excluded traffic control gets caught here.
The feed
Virginia DEQ publishes every construction stormwater permit statewide, updated daily. Any land disturbance over one acre appears here with acreage and estimated start dates.
What it means
A new permit in your counties is a named project about to move dirt, before it hits any bid board. Nobody's rep is watching this feed. Ours is.
Also watched
Loudoun and Chesterfield issued-permit reports, VDOT bid tabulations from the last letting (who won, at what unit prices), eVA award and intent-to-award notices.
Live permit rows are pulled for your counties the week we build your packet.

Built up in three moves

We watch

before you ever call us

Bedrock is already tracking Virginia's public layer: eVA, VDOT lettings, county procurement portals, water authorities, and the DEQ permit feed. The sample packet above is the proof. Everything in it is verifiable at the source.

We plug in

onboarding, week one

You forward your invitation-to-bid inbox, share plan-room access, bid history, and your vendor list. From that week the desk sees everything you see, plus everything public you don't.

We're your rep

exclusively, in your region

One client per state. Your packet compounds: your bonding line, your radius, your unit costs, your vendors. A desk that knows your business this well is not something we can offer your competitor. So we won't.

The offer

One partnership per state. Virginia is first.

The desk only works if it's yours alone. When a company claims its state, we stop taking calls from its competitors. Growth for us means new states, never a second client in yours.

Virginia

OPEN, taking claims

Full corridor coverage today: Fredericksburg, Richmond, Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads.

Maryland

opens after Virginia

Public-layer mapping begins once Virginia is claimed.

Pennsylvania

opens after Virginia

Same model, one partner, PennDOT and county layers.

North Carolina

opens after Virginia

Same model, one partner, NCDOT and county layers.

The desk does

  • Bid-board and letting monitoring, every source, weekly
  • Plan and spec digestion with the geotech red-flag box
  • Scored bid-or-pass briefs against your real capacity
  • Vendor quote solicitation, chasing, and scope-leveled tabs
  • RFI drafts, addenda tracking, open-items list
  • Early signals from permit and award data

Your people keep

  • Site visits, walkdowns, and pre-bid meetings
  • Final pricing, markup, and risk money
  • Contract negotiation and the handshake
  • Vendor relationships and phone-quote scope calls
  • Every decision that wins or loses the job

What it costs: less than the loaded cost of the estimator seat you're advertising for, on a monthly engagement with a paid pilot first. Exact terms depend on your bid volume and territory. We'll put a number on the table in the first conversation.

Fair questions

Why would we hand our bid pipeline to an outside desk?

Because the seat has been empty for months and the work is piling up on your senior people. The desk handles the hours of hunting, reading, and chasing. Every judgment call, and every number, stays in your shop. You can stop any month; your data comes with you.

What happens to our bid history and vendor list?

They stay yours. We work inside your systems and your domain where possible, and everything we build from your data is deliverable back to you. Exclusivity cuts both ways: we never carry your information to a competitor, because we never work for one.

Most of our work comes from GC invitations, not public bids. Does this still help?

Yes. The public layer is how we prove ourselves before you sign. After week-one onboarding, your invitation-to-bid inbox and plan-room feeds flow into the same desk, so private work gets the same digestion, briefs, and quote chasing as public work.

Can you really do takeoffs?

Areas, lengths, and counts, yes, aligned to your bid schedule. Full 3D cut-and-fill models are produced with specialist earthwork partners inside your packet while we build that capability in-house, and we'll always tell you which is which. We'd rather be honest about this than impressive.

Who is behind Bedrock?

Bedrock is an independent Virginia-focused desk, built by an operator who uses AI tooling to do the reading, watching, and chasing at a pace one hire never could. The first conversation is a walkthrough of a real packet for your territory, so you can judge the work, not the pitch.

What does the first month look like?

A paid pilot: week one is onboarding and data integration, then weekly packets on live opportunities in your territory. At the end of the month you'll have real briefs on real bids and can decide with evidence. If it's not working, you keep the packets and we part cleanly.

Virginia gets claimed once.

The first conversation is a walkthrough of a sample packet built for your territory. If the fit isn't there, you'll still leave knowing exactly what's bidding in your counties this month.

Claim Virginia