Most projects are talked about in a public meeting months before the bid notice runs. Tristate Construction News reads those meetings, budgets, bond votes, plan filings and bid notices across three states, and tells you which projects fit your trade. Every Monday, in your inbox.
A roof, a water line or a new gym starts as a line item in a board meeting. By the time it reaches the bid notice, the contractors who were paying attention have already met the owner and talked to the engineer. We pay attention for you.
A board, council or hospital talks about a project in a public meeting.
A budget line, bond issue or grant is approved.
An architect or engineer is hired. This is when to call.
Plans are filed with the state, including private work that is never advertised.
The notice runs. Everyone sees it on the same day.
Most bid services start hereBids are opened. We report who won and by how much.
days. That’s the typical time between a public bid notice first running and bids being due. It isn’t long enough to build a relationship with the owner. Months of early warning is.Median days from first publication to bid due date, Indiana public construction notices, Sept–Oct 2026.
You tell us your trades and the counties you work. We send the projects that match, sorted by when they’ll bid, with the people to call.
A project that directly fits your trade just moved forward. Call before the specs are written.
Projects approved, funded or in design, with the owner, the designer and a projected bid window.
Every new bid in your area with due date, pre-bid meeting, plan-room link and the full notice.
Bid results and awards, so you know who is busy, who is cheap and who is winning your kind of work.
| Project | Stage | County | Est. / Bid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Div 26 · Electrical | |||
| Design funds approved | Reach out | Vanderburgh, IN | |
| Bids due in 19 days | Bidding | Warrick, IN | |
| Div 33 · Utilities | |||
| Engineer selected, grant awarded | Horizon | Gibson, IN | |
| Fort Branch water projectCopper Ridge, low of nine bids | Awarded | Gibson, IN | $2.52M |
See which owners are planning work, who’s designing it, and when it’s likely to bid, so your preconstruction team calls first.
Matched by CSI division, from site work to low-voltage. Find out who’s bidding as GC and get your number in early.
Reach the architect or engineer while the drawings are still being made, and follow the job to the contractor who wins it.
Finding work across three states means dozens of newspapers, county websites, plan rooms and meeting agendas, each with its own schedule. Nobody on your team has time to check them all. We check every one, every week.
If your first 30 days of a paid subscription don’t turn up at least one project you didn’t already know about, tell us and we’ll refund every dollar. You don’t have to explain.
Schools, cities and utilities approve budgets, hire engineers and vote on bonds months before anything is advertised. Many of the projects that bid next spring are on agendas right now. Every Monday you wait, someone else hears about them first.
No. Bids are part of it, but the real value is earlier: projects pulled from public meetings, budgets, bond votes and plan filings months before they bid. A bid list tells you what everyone else already knows.
The Evansville Tri-State: Southern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois. You pick the counties you work in, and that’s what you get.
Yes. We cover all projects, private and public. Private work shows up when plans are filed with the state or permits are issued, often long before anyone advertises it.
Every trade. We tag each project by CSI MasterFormat division, so a roofer, an electrician and a site-work contractor each get their own matches from the same project.
Paid subscriptions are per company and include up to three named users. Need more seats? Ask us.
No. Paid plans are month to month, or annual if you want two months free. Cancel any time from your billing page.
A one-time catch-up report that comes with your first paid edition: every project in your trades and counties we’ve found in public meetings since June 1, 2026. It’s included with any paid plan started by December 31, 2026.
Everything comes from public records, and we link to the source. Dates and amounts can change, so confirm with the owner before you bid.
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