Agencies & Research
The procurement market behind every DOT letting, made legible.
DOTestimate turns public DOT bid tabulations into auditable procurement intelligence and highway construction market research. The same dataset estimators use to price work, applied to the questions agencies, oversight bodies, researchers, analysts and suppliers need answered. Source contract metadata is preserved on every record, so every figure traces back to its origin.
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DOT Profiler
Procurement intelligence from the public record.
An auditable read on the health of a state DOT's construction procurement program, built entirely from published bid tabulations and letting results.
Procurement health
Program-level indicators of competitive health, tracked over time and benchmarked against peer states.
Single-bidder rate
The share of contracts receiving only one bid, monitored against FHWA guidance, by district and project size.
Market concentration
How concentrated the contractor market is by region and material, and how that concentration is shifting.
The competitive cliff
Bidding density by project size, revealing the project bands where competition thins out.
Material economics
Unit price movement for HMA, PCC, aggregate base and structural steel against real market cycles.
Market dynamics
New contractor entrants, exits, and bid spread anomalies, surfaced from the full record of lettings.
Market Intel
Cross-State Construction Bid Intelligence.
DOT Health, peer benchmarks, and bid-pattern analytics across multiple state DOT programs, in one workspace. Where the DOT Profiler frames the questions, Market Intel is the toolset that answers them.
DOT Health
A program-level read on the competitive health of a state DOT's construction procurement: bidder participation, single-bidder share, price dispersion, and how each moves over time. The fast answer to "is this program getting more or less competitive."
Benchmarks
Peer benchmarking that sets one state's unit prices, competition levels, and program metrics side by side with comparable state DOTs, so a number has context beyond its own borders instead of being judged in isolation.
Signals
Early indicators surfaced from the bid record: emerging price pressure, thinning competition, new contractor entrants, and unusual bid spreads that flag where a closer look is warranted before it shows up in the headline numbers.
Bid Patterns
Bid-pattern analytics across lettings and contractors: clustering, repeat pairings, geographic specialization, and spread behavior that reveal how a market actually bids, not just what it bid.
State Reports
Packaged, auditable state-level reports that pull DOT Health, benchmarks, signals, and bid patterns into one shareable summary of a program's activity, pricing, and competitive structure, with source contract metadata preserved on every record.
Want to see what a finished report looks like? We will send a representative sample, built on the same structure as the live product, with no proprietary or live agency data exposed.
Who It's For
One public dataset. Many institutional questions.
🏛️ State DOTs & Procurement Teams
- Run DOT Profiler reports on procurement health and program trends
- Track market concentration, single-bidder rate, and competitive cliffs
- Benchmark unit prices and material economics against peer states
- Auditable intelligence with source contract metadata on every record
📰 Oversight, Policy & Press
- For FHWA oversight teams, state legislative auditors and inspector general offices
- Auditable analytics for transportation policy researchers and academic teams
- Verifiable letting analysis and contractor data for infrastructure journalists
- Cross-state market data without requesting separate state datasets
📈 Market Research, Equity & Investors
- Build a bid-side activity profile on a target contractor: frequency, win rate, footprint, specialization and competitor pairings
- Track any contractor active in covered DOT lettings, public or private, by actual bidding behavior
- Highway construction market research drawn from real bid tabulations
- Program activity, regional pricing and consolidation trends in a mostly privately held market
🏗️ Materials Suppliers
- Asphalt, cement, concrete, aggregates, steel, rebar, guardrail and pipe
- Size demand by region: HMA tonnage, PCC cubic yards, aggregate base tons let last quarter
- See which contractors are buying which materials, where, and in what volumes
- Spot accelerating regions and new entrants for sales targeting and capacity planning
Why It's Trusted
Auditable by design.
Public-record sourced
Every figure comes from publicly available state DOT bid tabulations and letting results. Nothing is proprietary or estimated at the source.
Traceable to the contract
Contract number, letting date and contractor are preserved on every record, so any number can be traced back and independently verified.
Cross-state, one place
Eighteen state DOTs in a single account, with current letting coverage and the full searchable record each, without filing separate data requests state by state.
FAQ
Agency & research questions.
They are two views of the same offering. The DOT Profiler frames the questions about a program's competitive health and procurement structure; Market Intel is the cross-state workspace that answers them, with five tools: DOT Health, Benchmarks, Signals, Bid Patterns, and State Reports. Together they cover program health, peer comparison, early indicators, bid-pattern analytics, and shareable state-level reporting across multiple state DOT programs.
The DOT Profiler is the module for agencies, oversight and research. It produces auditable reports on procurement health, market concentration, single-bidder rate against FHWA guidance, program trends and letting cadence, district breakdowns, material economics, the competitive cliff, market dynamics including entrants and exits, and bid spread anomalies, with source contract metadata preserved on every record.
Directly from publicly available state DOT bid tabulations and letting results. We aggregate and index that public record; we do not add proprietary or modeled figures at the source. Contract number, letting date and contractor stay attached to every record.
Yes. The platform contributes the DOT-letting picture for a target contractor: bid frequency, win rate against the apparent low bidder, geographic footprint, work-type specialization, competitor pairings and pricing posture. Diligence teams pair this with seller-provided financials. It works for public and private contractors active in covered lettings. The platform does not contain upstream materials-supply data.
To size demand by region from real lettings: how much HMA tonnage, PCC concrete and aggregate base were let, where, and by which contractors, which supports sales targeting and capacity planning.
Eighteen state DOTs are live today, including IL, IA, WI, MI, MN, IN, MO, KS, GA, AL, AR, LA, MS, FL, NY, TX, SC and VA, with more on the roadmap.
See the market behind the lettings.
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