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Contract survivability intelligence

Know whether your government contract can survive, before you bid, while you perform, and before you compete again.

Bidurance starts by underwriting a single live pursuit the way a lender underwrites a loan: labor exposure, workload reality, minimum viable price, mobilization cash, and payment-lag liquidity, before the proposal goes out the door. The same discipline follows the contract through performance and recompete.

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Built for 5–75 employee labor-intensive government service contractors. Every assessment is a one-time $2,500 purchase for one contract at one decision point.

The pre-award Contract Survival Audit returns one decision

  • GO

    Executable and financeable at the planned price.

  • CONDITIONAL GO

    Executable only if named conditions are met.

  • NO-GO / REPRICE

    Not survivable as priced; reprice or walk.

  • UNDERWRITING BLOCKED

    Critical inputs missing or unverifiable.

Plus the evidence behind it, what drove the decision, and what would change it. This GO / CONDITIONAL GO / NO-GO-REPRICE / UNDERWRITING BLOCKED scale applies only to the pre-award Contract Survival Audit. The Mobilization, Active Contract, Contract Change and Recompete Survival Assessments are structured, evidence-based calculated assessments and do not issue a verdict on that scale.

What gets underwritten

Requirement extraction

Execution-critical solicitation and PWS obligations pulled out and tied back to the page or section they came from.

Wage & staffing exposure

Wage determination, fringe, relief coverage and supervisory load tested against the staffing model you actually have.

Price & margin sensitivity

Minimum viable price modeled against your proposed price, with the margin range that survives realistic workload.

Mobilization & liquidity

Startup cash need and payment-lag exposure measured against the liquidity and credit you can actually draw on.

One contract, followed end to end

  1. Bid
  2. Mobilize
  3. Perform
  4. Change
  5. Recompete

Bidurance stays attached to the same contract economics across the whole sequence. What was underwritten pre-award is preserved as the baseline, and each later decision point is a separate assessment measured against it. The four post-award assessments, Mobilization, Active Contract, Contract Change and Recompete Survival Assessments, are structured, evidence-based calculated assessments of the contract as it actually stands. They do not issue the pre-award GO / CONDITIONAL GO / NO-GO-REPRICE / UNDERWRITING BLOCKED verdict.

Across the contract lifecycle

The same survivability question, can this contract be executed profitably at this price, applies at every stage. Each stage is its own one-time $2,500 assessment for one contract at one material decision event. After payment, upload what you have and answer the remaining questions in your secure account. The completed report is released there.

Bidurance starts reading and independently verifying documents as they arrive, then uses verified information automatically so you do not have to retype what the evidence already establishes. You can continue answering while documents are being read. After submission, Bidurance finishes resolving the evidence, runs the applicable calculations, re-derives every number in QA, and releases the report only when it is supported. Conflicting, unidentified, unreadable, or insufficient evidence prompts a question instead of a guess.

Preparing to bid

$2,500

Contract Survival Audit

Stress-test staffing feasibility, labor burden, relief coverage, minimum viable price, mobilization cash, payment lag, and working-capital need before the proposal goes out.

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Awarded / mobilizing

$2,500

Mobilization Survival Assessment

Stress-test the actual launch plan against the economics of the award: staffing ramp, relief coverage, payroll exposure, supervision, startup cost, mobilization timing, recurring cost, invoicing, and working-capital need.

Assess My Mobilization · $2,500

Managing an active contract

$2,500

Active Contract Survival Assessment

Compare actual labor, overtime, absence coverage, supervision, recurring cost, scope, invoice timing, and operating cash against the economics the contract needs to remain viable.

Review My Active Contract · $2,500

Modification / added scope

$2,500

Contract Change Survival Assessment

Measure how a material contract change affects staffing, coverage, cost, cash requirement, minimum viable economics, and operating risk before accepting the new economics.

Assess My Contract Change · $2,500

Option / recompete

$2,500

Recompete Survival Assessment

Use actual contract performance, current economics, and the new requirements to determine whether the next term should be continued, repriced, restructured, or declined. If the recompete is already a live solicitation you are bidding fresh, the Contract Survival Audit may be the better fit.

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Not sure which stage fits

Still deciding whether to bid a live solicitation? That is the Contract Survival Audit. Already holding the contract? Pick the decision in front of you: launching it, keeping it viable, absorbing a material change, or deciding on the next term.

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Why Bidurance is different

Many GovCon platforms help you find opportunities, qualify pursuits, run capture, write proposals, manage CRM and pipeline, estimate competitiveness, or automate delivery workflows. Bidurance does not try to replace those tools. It answers a narrower financial and operational question: if you win or continue this specific contract at this price and scope, can you staff it, finance it, and execute it without the economics breaking?

Execution underwriting, not proposal assistance

Bidurance evaluates whether the actual contract is operationally and financially survivable at the proposed price and scope.

Staffing realism

Staffing floors, productive hours, relief coverage, supervisory burden, overtime exposure, wage/fringe requirements, and workload reality are tested. Labor is never reduced to a simple rate-times-hours estimate.

Minimum viable economics

Bidurance identifies the minimum viable price and tests whether the proposed economics can actually support execution.

Working-capital survivability

Startup cash, payroll timing, invoicing, payment lag, available liquidity, and working-capital need are modeled, not just accounting profit.

Evidence-controlled decisions

Inputs and conclusions are tied back to contract documents and evidence provenance. Missing critical inputs block unsupported conclusions rather than being silently guessed.

Decision logic, not vague recommendations

The pre-award Contract Survival Audit returns GO, CONDITIONAL GO, NO-GO / REPRICE, or UNDERWRITING BLOCKED, with the evidence behind the decision, what drove it, and what would change it. The four post-award assessments do not use that verdict scale; they return calculated, evidence-based findings on the contract as it actually stands.

One contract followed over time

The pre-award economic baseline is preserved and carried through mobilization, active performance, modifications, and recompete, so you can compare what was underwritten against what actually happened.

Complementary to your GovCon stack

Bidurance sits alongside opportunity, capture, proposal, accounting, banking, and project-management tools. It evaluates one contract at one material decision event, so it adds focused survivability intelligence without taking over the growth workflow.

Bidurance is built specifically for labor-intensive government service contractors, where staffing, payroll, relief coverage, supervision, mobilization, and payment timing can determine whether a contract is actually viable.

Bidurance does not help you win at any cost. It helps you understand whether the contract is worth winning.

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Inside a Contract Survival Audit

The released underwriting memo turns one pursuit into a clear decision, supported by contract facts, modeled economics, and quantified corrective action.

The labels and sections shown here are drawn from the actual Bidurance deliverable. All names and values are sanitized, illustrative test data and do not belong to a customer.

Bidurance Contract Survival Audit

Illustrative pursuit underwriting memo

Sanitized sample

Illustrative values · Selected sections only

Executive decision

CONDITIONAL GO

Proceed only after the listed conditions are corrected before submission.

Economics are positive, but the modeled margin is below the illustrative target. Corrective action is required before bid submission.

Section 1

Contract snapshot

Solicitation ID
ILLUSTRATIVE-24-001
Agency
Illustrative federal agency
Contract type
Firm-fixed-price service
Proposed annual price
$600,000

Section 3

Economics

Total modeled cost
$561,636
Annual profit
$38,364
Modeled margin
6.39%
Minimum viable price
$638,222.73

Section 8 · Corrective action

What changes the decision?

Raise price to the minimum viable level

Bid at least $638,222.73, an increase of $38,222.73, to reach the illustrative target margin.

Quantified target: $638,222.73

This controlled preview omits the full labor model, liquidity analysis, constraint and evidence registers, adverse sensitivities, and methodology details.
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Before you begin

Frequently Asked Questions

Clear answers about what Bidurance evaluates, what you provide, and what the assessment can and cannot conclude.

If a live pursuit is the decision in front of you, the Contract Survival Audit is the place to begin.

About the Founder

Bryan C. · Founder, Bidurance

Lending and underwriting, business operations, financial/business/data analytics, MBA in Artificial Intelligence.

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Contract Survival Audit

$2,500, one-time · one live pursuit

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