What information does a Bid Banana company profile ask for?

Business basics such as name, website and address, a contact for buyers, operational details including employee count, revenue range and territory, then industry classifications, service descriptions and search keywords. You can also add EIN, DBA names and certifications, upload a capability statement, resumes and case studies, and invite team members who work on bids.

Why is a Match profile better than searching keywords?

A keyword search returns what was posted at the moment you typed one guess. A profile is a standing description evaluated against every new bid, so it keeps working while you do other things. It also covers vocabulary you would not think to try, which matters because buyers write scopes of work in procurement language rather than in your marketing terms.

How should you write the keywords in your Match profile?

Write them the way a procurement officer would describe the work in a scope of work, not the way your website sells it. Pull exact phrases from solicitations you have already bid on, include the plain term alongside the industry one, and add regional and regulatory phrasing buyers use. Marketing language is the most common reason a good profile returns thin results.

How often should you update your Match profile?

Review it whenever your services, territory or certifications change, and at least once or twice a year otherwise. Profiles quietly go stale: a new service line never gets added, an expired certification stays listed, or a territory expansion never reaches the profile, and the feed keeps optimizing for the company you were rather than the one you are.

How much does Bid Banana cost?

Bid Banana is $49.99 a month or $479.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial. A subscription includes the Match profile and its recommended feed, keyword and filter search across 1.6 million bid pages in all 50 states, saved searches that email new matches each morning, and Bid Details pages that summarize each opportunity.

How Does Bid Banana's Match Profile Work?

A Match profile is the part of Bid Banana that knows your company. You describe your industry, services, keywords and territory once, and Bid Banana compares open bids against that description to build a recommended feed, scoring each opportunity by how closely it fits. It replaces the daily habit of typing a guess into a search box and hoping the buyer happened to use your wording.

It also runs in the other direction. A completed company profile makes your business discoverable to buyers who are looking for vendors, which no amount of searching will do for you.

What is a Match profile, and what does it do?

Think of the difference between a query and a standing brief. A search is a question you ask at one moment about what is posted right then. A Match profile is a description of your company that stays in the system and gets evaluated against every new bid as it lands, so relevant work reaches you whether or not anyone remembered to search that day.

That single change turns bid search from an activity someone has to remember into a feed that shows up. For a small team, remembering is usually the real point of failure.

What goes into your company profile?

The walkthrough for adding your company profile to Bid Banana covers every field, but these are the ones that decide what your feed looks like:

Industry — the sector you work in, which sets the broad shape of the feed before anything else narrows it.
Services — the specific work you deliver. This is the field that separates two companies in the same industry who should never see the same bids.
Keywords — the terms a procurement officer would use for your work, which are frequently not the terms you use for it.
Territory — where you can actually perform. Setting this honestly removes more noise than any other single field.
Business details — employee count, revenue range, EIN, DBA names and certifications, which help match you to opportunities with size or set-aside conditions.
Documents — capability statement, resumes and case studies, which do double duty as the beginnings of a reusable proposal core.
Team members — colleagues who work on bids, added by email, so the feed is not trapped in one person’s login.

How does Bid Banana build your feed from the profile?

Open bids are compared against your profile and returned as a recommended opportunities feed, with a percentage match score on each one so you can tell at a glance which are worth opening. The feed keeps updating as new opportunities land, drawn from 1.6 million bid pages across all 50 states that are refreshed daily.

The score is best read as a triage order rather than a verdict. Work down from the top, and if a high-scoring bid is plainly wrong for you, that is information about the profile: something in your services or keywords is describing work you do not want.

Why does a Match profile beat guessing keywords?

Because keyword searching has one failure that never announces itself. A search returns what matched. It cannot show you the contract you missed because the buyer wrote grounds maintenance and you searched landscaping, so a thin week looks like a quiet market rather than a vocabulary gap. Three specific advantages follow:

It covers wording you would not try — a profile evaluates the whole description of your business against each bid rather than one phrase you happened to type.
It is persistent — the search you forgot to run on a busy Thursday found nothing. The profile was still working.
It ranks instead of dumping — a broad keyword returns hundreds of results in no useful order. A scored feed tells you where to start, which is what you actually needed.

How should you write the services and keywords fields?

Write them the way a procurement officer would describe the work in a scope of work, not the way your website sells it. Buyers do not solicit integrated facility care solutions. They solicit janitorial services. The single most common reason a well-intentioned profile returns thin results is that it was filled in with marketing copy.

The fastest way to get this right is to steal the language. Open three or four solicitations you have already bid on, or pull up closed bids from buyers you want to work with, and copy the nouns they use for the work into your services and keywords fields. Include the unglamorous term alongside the industry one, and add the regulatory or program phrasing that appears in your sector’s solicitations.

How do you set up your Match profile?

Sign in and click Match in the navigation bar.
Select Create your profile.
Enter your industry, services, keywords and territory, using solicitation language rather than marketing language.
Add team members by email so more than one person sees the feed.
Save. Matching begins immediately, so you can judge the quality of your fields the same afternoon.

The Match profile setup guide has the screen-by-screen version, and the company profile article covers the optional fields, certifications and document uploads that make your listing useful to buyers browsing for vendors. Set a reminder to revisit both once or twice a year, because profiles go stale quietly: a new service line never gets added, a certification lapses, and the feed keeps optimizing for the company you used to be.

How do Match profile and Saved Search work together?

They answer different questions and you want both. The Match profile is broad and standing: what work suits this company. A saved search is narrow and deliberate: this agency, this state, this NAICS code, emailed to me each morning. Use the profile to catch what you would not have thought to look for, and saved searches to guarantee you never miss the handful of buyers you are deliberately chasing. Both improve when your underlying search strategy is written down rather than improvised.

Bid Banana searches 1.6 million bid pages across all 50 states, updated daily. Filter to your service category and narrow by agency, state or NAICS code, then save the search so new matches arrive by email each morning. It is $49.99 a month or $479.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Bid Banana Match profile?: Match is the part of Bid Banana Search that knows your company. You enter your industry, services, keywords and territory once, and the platform compares open bids against that description to build a recommended feed with a percentage match score on each opportunity. A completed profile also makes your business discoverable to buyers looking for vendors.
What information does a Bid Banana company profile ask for?: Business basics such as name, website and address, a contact for buyers, operational details including employee count, revenue range and territory, then industry classifications, service descriptions and search keywords. You can also add EIN, DBA names and certifications, upload a capability statement, resumes and case studies, and invite team members who work on bids.
Why is a Match profile better than searching keywords?: A keyword search returns what was posted at the moment you typed one guess. A profile is a standing description evaluated against every new bid, so it keeps working while you do other things. It also covers vocabulary you would not think to try, which matters because buyers write scopes of work in procurement language rather than in your marketing terms.
How should you write the keywords in your Match profile?: Write them the way a procurement officer would describe the work in a scope of work, not the way your website sells it. Pull exact phrases from solicitations you have already bid on, include the plain term alongside the industry one, and add regional and regulatory phrasing buyers use. Marketing language is the most common reason a good profile returns thin results.
How often should you update your Match profile?: Review it whenever your services, territory or certifications change, and at least once or twice a year otherwise. Profiles quietly go stale: a new service line never gets added, an expired certification stays listed, or a territory expansion never reaches the profile, and the feed keeps optimizing for the company you were rather than the one you are.
How much does Bid Banana cost?: Bid Banana is $49.99 a month or $479.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial. A subscription includes the Match profile and its recommended feed, keyword and filter search across 1.6 million bid pages in all 50 states, saved searches that email new matches each morning, and Bid Details pages that summarize each opportunity.