Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Interesting Bids Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Canada, doing business as BiddingSimple (“BiddingSimple,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to and use of the biddingsimple.com website, applications, APIs, emails, and all related services (collectively, the “Service”). By accessing or using the Service, creating an account, clicking “I agree,” or posting or responding to a solicitation, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference.

If you use the Service on behalf of a business, government agency, or other entity, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind that entity, and “you” includes that entity. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract to use the Service. The Service is offered for business and governmental use, not for personal, family, or household purposes.

The Service has two distinct parts:

• The aggregated bid index(“All Bids,” “Today,” “Radar,” and related features): a search and discovery tool that collects, organizes, summarizes, and links to procurement notices published by third parties on publicly available sources. We do not host the underlying solicitation documents for aggregated bids; we link to the original posting.
• The posting platform(“B Bids”): tools that let buyers (public agencies and other organizations) publish their own solicitations and, optionally, collect sealed electronic bids.

We are a neutral technology provider. BiddingSimple is not a government entity, is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any government agency, and is not a party to, broker of, or guarantor of any solicitation, bid, submission, evaluation, award, or contract conducted or discovered through the Service. Nothing on the Service constitutes legal, procurement, financial, or professional advice, and no attorney-client, fiduciary, agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship is created by your use of the Service. You are solely responsible for obtaining professional advice appropriate to your circumstances.

We do not guarantee that using the Service will result in finding, winning, receiving, or successfully running any bid, contract, or award.

Aggregated bid listings are collected by automated means from publicly available sources and are provided for informational and convenience purposes only. The data may be incomplete, inaccurate, delayed, superseded, miscategorized, or otherwise erroneous — including, without limitation, titles, descriptions, summaries, categories, agencies, locations, set-aside designations, links, and closing dates and times.

The official version of any solicitation is the one published by the issuing agency at its original source. You must independently verify all information — especially deadlines, requirements, amendments, and submission instructions — directly with the issuing agency before relying on it.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss, missed deadline, disqualified or unsubmitted bid, lost opportunity, or other harm arising from any error, omission, delay, or unavailability in aggregated bid data, notifications, reminders, matches, email briefs, or any other feature of the Service. Notifications and reminders are best-effort conveniences, not a system of record.

Portions of the Service are produced or assisted by automated and artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies— for example, classifying bids into categories, generating plain-language summaries, matching opportunities to vendor profiles, extracting fields from source documents, and improving search results and the overall user experience. AI-generated output can be wrong, incomplete, or misleading, and is provided “as is” without any warranty. It is never a substitute for reading the official solicitation.

You must provide accurate, current, and complete information when creating an account and keep it updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account, whether or not authorized by you. Notify us immediately at [email protected] of any suspected unauthorized use.

We may refuse, suspend, limit, or terminate accounts at our sole discretion, including where we believe an account violates these Terms, poses a risk to the Service or others, or is associated with fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful activity. We may screen users and organizations against applicable sanctions and watch lists and may decline service accordingly.

Team, agency, and organization features allow multiple users to share workspaces. The account holder and its organization are responsible for the acts and omissions of every member they invite or permit to act on their behalf.

If you use the Service to post solicitations or collect bids, you additionally agree:

• Authority and compliance. You represent that you are authorized to conduct the procurement, and you are solely responsible for compliance with all laws, regulations, charters, ordinances, policies, and procurement rules applicable to you — including public-notice, competitive-bidding, accessibility, records-retention, and open-records requirements. The Service is a general-purpose tool; we make no representation that it satisfies the procurement requirements of any particular jurisdiction.
• Your content. You are solely responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and legality of every solicitation, document, addendum, answer, deadline, and award decision you publish. We do not review, endorse, or verify buyer postings, and may (but are not obligated to) remove any posting at our discretion.
• Sealed e-bidding and encryption.Sealed submissions are encrypted in the submitting vendor's browser. We store only ciphertext and never hold plaintext private keys. If you lose your unlock passphrase or recovery credentials, the sealed bids may be permanently unrecoverable, and we have no ability to decrypt them. You accept this design as a condition of using sealed bidding.
• Deadlines and timestamps.Submission cut-offs are enforced using our servers' clocks. Server time is authoritative and final.
• Evaluation and award. Opening, evaluating, scoring, and awarding are performed by you and your evaluators. We are not responsible for the conduct or outcome of any evaluation or award, or for disputes, protests, claims, or challenges arising from your procurement.
• Concierge posting. Where we assist in preparing or publishing a posting at your request (including postings prepared with your permission on your behalf), you remain the issuer of record and remain solely responsible for reviewing and approving its content. Our assistance is clerical, not professional advice.

If you use the Service to discover opportunities or submit responses, you agree:

• You are solely responsible for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and legality of every submission, question, and communication you make, and for meeting all requirements of the solicitation to which you respond.
• Submissions are made to and for the benefit of the buyer. Any dispute regarding a solicitation, evaluation, award, or contract is between you and the buyer. We are not responsible for a buyer's conduct, including cancellations, deadline changes, evaluation decisions, non-awards, or non-payment.
• You are responsible for your own equipment, connectivity, and browser environment. Submit well before deadlines; we are not liable for submissions that fail or arrive late for any reason, including local device failures, network issues, or your loss of encryption credentials. Your submission receipt and confirmation code are your proof of submission — retain them.
• Capability profiles, matching, and email briefs are discovery conveniences and may miss relevant opportunities or surface irrelevant ones. They are not a promise of coverage.

Certain features require payment: currently a Pro subscription ($9 per month or $99 per year) for access to the aggregated bid index and related features, and a one-time sealed-bid fee ($95 per solicitation) to enable sealed e-bidding on a posting. Prices, features, and plans may change; changes to recurring prices take effect at your next renewal after reasonable notice.

• Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled. You authorize us and our payment processor to charge your payment method on each renewal.
• Cancellation. You may cancel at any time from your billing settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period, and you retain access until then. We do not provide prorated refunds for partial periods.
• Refunds. Except where required by applicable law or expressly stated otherwise, all fees are non-refundable, including the sealed-bid fee once sealing has been enabled for a posting.
• Payment processing. Payments are processed by third-party processors (currently Stripe). We do not store full card numbers. You are responsible for taxes applicable to your purchase, other than taxes on our income.
• Non-payment. We may suspend or downgrade paid features for failed or disputed payments.

You agree not to, and not to permit or assist anyone to:

• access, collect, scrape, crawl, harvest, or extract data from the Service by automated means, or circumvent any access control, rate limit, or paywall;
• copy, resell, sublicense, redistribute, or commercially exploit the Service or any substantial portion of its data, or use the Service to build or train a competing product, dataset, or model;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, interfere with its operation, or attempt to access accounts, systems, or data you are not authorized to access;
• misrepresent your identity, authority, or affiliation (including posing as a government agency or posting a solicitation you are not authorized to conduct);
• submit content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, deceptive, malicious (including malware), collusive, anticompetitive (including bid-rigging), or that violates any third party's rights;
• use the Service in violation of any applicable law, including procurement, competition, anti-corruption, export-control, and sanctions laws; or
• use the Service to send spam or unsolicited communications.

We may investigate suspected violations, remove content, throttle or suspend access, and cooperate with law enforcement, in each case without notice or liability.

You retain ownership of content you submit to the Service (“User Content”). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt, publish, transmit, display, and distribute User Content as reasonably necessary to operate, provide, secure, and improve the Service and as otherwise directed by you (for example, publishing a solicitation to the public, distributing it to matched vendors, or delivering a sealed submission to its buyer). This license includes processing by our service providers, including AI providers, solely to provide the Service.

Content you publish publicly (such as a public solicitation, addendum, or published Q&A answer) is public: it may be viewed, indexed, and shared by others, and may persist in caches and archives after removal.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit your User Content and grant this license, and that your User Content does not violate law or third-party rights. If you provide feedback or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or compensation.

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, trademarks, and the selection, arrangement, enrichment, and compilation of the bid index, is owned by BiddingSimple or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Underlying government solicitation notices may be public records; our original contributions — including summaries, classifications, normalizations, and the compilation itself — are ours.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Service for your internal business purposes. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. You may not use our name or marks without our prior written consent.

The Service links to third-party websites — most importantly, issuing agencies' own procurement portals — and relies on third-party services (hosting, payments, email delivery, and AI processing). We do not control and are not responsible for third-party sites, services, content, terms, or privacy practices. Your use of them is at your own risk and subject to their terms.

You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Service (i) immediately for breach of these Terms, risk to the Service or others, or suspected unlawful activity, or (ii) for any other reason on reasonable notice. Upon termination, your license ends; sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 3, 8–9, and 12–17) survive.

We may retain and continue to display content already published to buyers or the public as needed for the integrity of past procurements, our legal obligations, and our records.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all data, content, features, notifications, summaries, matches, and outputs (including AI-generated output) are provided “as is” and “as available,” with all faults and without warranty of any kind. We expressly disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, timeliness, quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that data (including bid listings, deadlines, notifications, and reminders) will be accurate, complete, or current; that defects will be corrected; or that the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components. No advice or information obtained from us or through the Service creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of the above may not apply to you.

To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) in no event will BiddingSimple, its owner, affiliates, or their respective officers, employees, agents, licensors, or suppliers be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, data, or opportunities (including any lost, late, rejected, or unsuccessful bid, and any failed, delayed, or disputed procurement), even if advised of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose; and (b) our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (i) the amounts you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (ii) one hundred US dollars (US $100).

The exclusions and limitations in this section apply regardless of the theory of liability (contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, statute, or otherwise) and to the fullest extent permitted in your jurisdiction. They do not exclude liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. You acknowledge that the pricing of the Service reflects this allocation of risk and that we would not provide the Service on these economic terms without it.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless BiddingSimple, its owner, affiliates, and their respective officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, demands, actions, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your User Content; (b) your use or misuse of the Service; (c) any solicitation, submission, evaluation, award, contract, or dispute in which you are involved; (d) your violation of these Terms or of any law or regulation (including procurement law); or (e) your violation of any third party's rights. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification (at your expense), and you agree to cooperate with our defense. This section does not apply to the extent prohibited for government entities by applicable law; in that case, it applies to the maximum extent such law allows.

Please read this section carefully — it affects your rights. You and BiddingSimple agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms (except as noted below) will be resolved by final and binding arbitration on an individual basis, administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules (and, where applicable, its Consumer Arbitration Rules), before a single arbitrator. Arbitration will be conducted in English, remotely by videoconference or written submissions where possible. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

Class-action and jury waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, claims may be brought only in an individual capacity — not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding — and both parties waive any right to a jury trial. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any representative proceeding.

Exceptions. Either party may (i) bring an individual claim in small-claims court, or (ii) seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property or unauthorized access to the Service. Government-entity users whose governing law prohibits arbitration are exempt from this arbitration requirement to the extent of that prohibition.

Opt-out.You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing [email protected] with the subject “Arbitration opt-out,” your name, and the account email, within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Opting out does not affect any other provision.

Informal resolution first. Before filing a claim, you agree to give us notice at [email protected] and 30 days to try to resolve it informally.

Time limit. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim must be filed within one (1) year after the event giving rise to it, or it is permanently barred.

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the US Federal Arbitration Act governs the arbitration agreement. For any matter not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Delaware, and waive objections to that forum. Where a government-entity user is required by its own law to apply its home-state law or venue, these Terms apply to the maximum extent not inconsistent with that requirement.

BiddingSimple is operated by Interesting Bids Inc., a Canadian corporation. The parties acknowledge that arbitration under these Terms may be international in character and that arbitral awards are recognizable and enforceable under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention), to which both the United States and Canada are parties. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to these Terms.

The Service evolves constantly; we may add, change, suspend, or remove features at any time, and may impose or change limits on features (including free-tier scope) without liability.

We may revise these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date above reflects the current version. For material changes we will provide reasonable notice (for example, by email or an in-product notice). Changes are effective when posted unless stated otherwise, and your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Service before the changes take effect.

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice compliant with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our designated agent at [email protected](subject: “DMCA”), including: identification of the work and the allegedly infringing material (with URL), your contact information, a statement of good-faith belief, a statement of accuracy under penalty of perjury, and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove content, forward notices, and terminate repeat infringers.

• Electronic communications. You consent to receive notices, disclosures, and communications from us electronically (including by email and in-product messages), and agree they satisfy any legal writing requirement. Transactional and service emails are part of the Service; marketing emails include an unsubscribe option.
• Entire agreement. These Terms (with the Privacy Policy and any posted feature-specific terms) are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements on that subject.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remainder will remain in full effect. If the class-action waiver is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) proceeds in court, not arbitration.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of third-party providers, source websites, or networks.
• Export and sanctions. You may not use the Service in violation of US export-control or sanctions laws, and you represent that you are not a sanctioned or restricted party.
• Contact. Interesting Bids Inc. (doing business as BiddingSimple) — [email protected].