Blue Peak Bid Board Terms of Service
Last updated: October 2, 2026
If you signed a separate Order Form to access the Blue Peak Bid Board with the same account, and that agreement has not ended, the terms below do not apply to you. Instead, your separate Order Form applies to your use of the Product.
This Agreement is between Blue Peak Data Consulting LLC and the company or person accessing or using the Cloud Service. This Agreement consists of: (1) the Order Form below and (2) the Framework Terms defined below.
If you are accessing or using the Cloud Service on behalf of your company, you represent that you are authorized to accept this Agreement on behalf of your company. By signing up, accessing, or using the Product, Customer indicates its acceptance of this Agreement and agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
The Blue Peak Bid Board is sold to businesses for business use. It is not for personal, family or household use.
The short version, in plain words. The board is information about public documents, not legal or procurement advice. We quote the clause and cite the page so you can check it, and you must check it before you act. We can be wrong and we can miss things. If we are, the most we owe you is what you paid us in the three months before the problem, and nothing if you paid nothing. Your profile and your decisions stay confidential, and Blue Peak never uses them in its own bidding. The full terms below control.
Cover Page
Order Form
Framework Terms: This Order Form incorporates and is governed by the Framework Terms, which consists of the Key Terms below and the Common Paper Cloud Service Standard Terms Version 2.1, which are incorporated by reference. Any modifications to the Standard Terms made in the Cover Page below will control over conflicts with the Standard Terms. Capitalized words have the meanings given in the Cover Page or the Standard Terms.
Cloud Service: The Blue Peak Bid Board, a weekly information and decision-support service. Customer gives Provider a profile of its firm: the services it sells, the states it works in, its size band, and anything it wants excluded. Each week Provider collects open public solicitations from the government sources Provider names to Customer, matches them to the profile, reads the matched documents, and sends Customer a board by email. For each solicitation on the board, Provider gives a verdict (BID, ASK FIRST or SKIP), quotes the clause in the document that drove the verdict, and cites the document and page where it appears. The board also lists the question deadlines, pre-bid meetings and closing dates Provider found. Verdicts are produced by software, including a large language model, reading the public documents against a written set of rules, followed by a human review of a sample. Every quoted clause is checked by software against the text of the cited page before the board is sent. The Cloud Service does not write proposals, submit bids, or contact buyers on Customer’s behalf. A free backtest (Customer sends past solicitations and its own bid or skip call on each, and Provider returns its verdicts beside them) is part of the Cloud Service when Provider offers one.
Order Date: The Effective Date.
Subscription Period: One month.
Cloud Service Fees: $99 a month for the weekly board, after a 14-day free trial that starts at checkout; the first board is free; cancel any time, and nothing is charged if Customer cancels before the trial ends. A read of a single solicitation is $249, confirmed by email before work starts and invoiced after delivery. Provider may update Product pricing by giving at least 30 days notice to Customer (including by email or notification within the Product), and the change will apply in the next Subscription Period. Fees are a flat subscription. Provider never charges a commission, percentage, success fee or any amount that depends on whether Customer wins a contract, and Provider is not retained to solicit or obtain any contract for Customer.
Free board and backtest: Customer’s first board is free, and Provider may also give Customer a free backtest before Customer pays. Customer may cancel before the first charge by replying “cancel” to any board email, and will not be charged. A firm that receives free boards without subscribing is covered by the Blue Peak Bid Board Pilot Terms below instead of this Agreement, if it accepted them.
Payment Process: Customer authorizes Provider to bill and charge Customer’s payment method on file monthly for immediate payment or deduction without further approval. Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc.; Provider does not receive or store full card numbers.
Non-Renewal Notice Period: For Customer, any time before the end of the current Subscription Period. Customer may give notice by replying “cancel” or “stop” to any board email or by writing to the Notice Address. For Provider, at least 30 days before the end of the current Subscription Period.
Use Limitations: Each subscription covers one firm profile. Customer may use boards only for its own firm’s bid decisions, and may forward them to people inside its own firm.
Technical Support: By email, on business days. If Customer believes a verdict is wrong, Customer may reply to the board email; Provider will re-read the document and tell Customer what it finds.
Key Terms
Customer: The company or person who accesses or uses the Product. If the person accepting this Agreement is doing so on behalf of a company, all use of the word “Customer” in the Agreement will mean that company.
Provider: Blue Peak Data Consulting LLC, a Kansas limited liability company.
Effective Date: The date Customer first accepts this Agreement.
Governing Law: The laws of the State of Kansas.
Chosen Courts: The state courts located in Johnson County, Kansas, and the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Covered Claims:
- Provider Covered Claims: None.
- Customer Covered Claims: Any action, proceeding, or claim (1) that the Customer Content, when used according to the terms of the Agreement, violates, misappropriates, or otherwise infringes upon a third party’s intellectual property or other proprietary rights; and (2) arising from or relating to Customer’s breach or alleged breach of Section 2.1 (Restrictions on Customer).
General Cap Amount: The Fees paid by Customer to Provider for the Cloud Service in the 3 month period immediately before the event giving rise to the claim. If Customer has paid no Fees, the General Cap Amount is $0.
Unlimited Claims: Customer’s obligation to pay Fees, and Customer’s breach of Section 2.1 (Restrictions on Customer).
Notice Address:
- For Provider: sergei@bluepeakdataconsulting.com, and by mail to Blue Peak Data Consulting LLC, 10420 S Ridgeview Rd #1022, Olathe, KS 66061.
- For Customer: The main email address for Customer’s account.
Attachments, Supplements & Modifications
Privacy Policy: Provider’s Privacy Policy describes the personal information Provider collects from the people at Customer’s firm, who processes it, and how to exercise rights over it.
Changes to the Standard Terms: The Standard Terms are modified as follows. Each change controls over any conflicting Standard Term.
C1. Not legal, procurement or professional advice. The Cloud Service provides information and an opinion about public documents. It is not legal advice, procurement advice, accounting advice or any other professional advice, and no attorney-client or other professional relationship is created. A verdict is Provider’s reading of the document on the date Provider read it. It is not a representation about how any government buyer will read or apply its own solicitation, about Customer’s eligibility, or about the outcome of any bid.
C2. Customer must verify before relying on a verdict. Government solicitations change. Addenda, questions and answers, and corrections may be published after Provider reads a document, and a verdict does not account for anything published after the read date shown on the board. Before acting on any verdict, Customer will open the solicitation and any addenda itself, confirm the quoted clause and its context, and make its own bid or no-bid decision. The decision to pursue, not pursue, price or submit any bid is Customer’s alone. Customer will tell the people at its firm who receive boards that verdicts must be checked against the source document before they are relied on.
C3. No guarantee of completeness or coverage. The Cloud Service reads only the sources Provider names to Customer, and that list changes. Provider adds a source only when its terms permit it or its operator has agreed in writing, and Provider never bypasses a login, a bot check or an access control to collect data, even if that means a source is not covered. Coverage is therefore incomplete by design. Provider does not represent that a board contains every solicitation that matches Customer’s profile. Adding, removing or changing a source, or changing the format of the board, is not a reduction of general functionality under Section 6.3 (Representations & Warranties from Provider).
C4. Machine learning. Section 1.6 (Machine Learning) is deleted and replaced with: “Provider will not use Customer Content to develop, train, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model. Due to the nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning, information generated by these features may be incorrect or inaccurate. Product features that include artificial intelligence or machine learning models are not human and are not a substitute for human oversight.” The references to Section 1.6 in Sections 5.6(a) and 11.1 are deleted.
C5. Additional disclaimer. The following is added to Section 7 (Disclaimer of Warranties): THE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” PROVIDER DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OF ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS, AND DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY VERDICT IS CORRECT, THAT ANY BOARD IS COMPLETE, OR THAT CUSTOMER WILL WIN OR AVOID ANY BID. In plain words: Provider works carefully and shows its evidence, but it can be wrong, it can miss things, and the source document controls. Where the law does not allow a disclaimer for a particular customer, the disclaimer applies to the extent the law allows.
C6. Additional damages waiver. The following is added to Section 8.2 (Damages Waiver): This waiver includes lost contracts or awards, lost opportunities, proposal or bid preparation costs, and the cost of substitute services, and it includes any claim that Customer did not pursue a solicitation because of a SKIP verdict, or pursued one because of a BID or ASK FIRST verdict. The limits in Sections 8.1 and 8.2 do not apply to liability for fraud or willful misconduct. They reflect the price of the Cloud Service and the fact that Customer, not Provider, makes the bid decision.
C7. Confidentiality of Customer Content and Provider’s own bidding. The following is added to Section 10 (Confidentiality):
(a) Customer Content includes Customer’s firm profile, its boards, its replies and disputed verdicts, the past bid decisions it shares for a backtest, and the fact that Customer is pursuing or skipping any solicitation. All of it is Customer’s Confidential Information.
(b) Provider responds to government solicitations on its own account and may see the same solicitations Customer sees. Provider will not use Customer Content in deciding whether to bid, in preparing or pricing any bid of its own, or in any teaming or subcontracting discussion, and will not disclose Customer Content to any teaming partner or subcontractor. Customer’s verdicts are produced by the same written rules Provider applies to every customer and are not adjusted for Provider’s interests. Provider will keep Customer Content apart from its own bidding files, and the tools that produce Provider’s own bid decisions will not read it.
(c) Provider will never tell one customer what another customer is pursuing, and will not offer any feature that shows who else has seen or is pursuing a solicitation.
(d) Section 1.4 (Feedback and Usage Data) does not permit Provider to use or disclose Usage Data that shows Customer’s interest in a particular solicitation, except in aggregate statistics from which Customer cannot be identified, such as Provider’s overall miss rate.
(e) The people permitted to receive Customer’s Confidential Information under Section 10.4 (Permitted Disclosures) include the service providers named in Provider’s Privacy Policy, each only as needed to run the Cloud Service.
C8. Deletion. In Section 5.5(b), “within 60 days” is replaced with “within 30 days”. Customer may also ask Provider to delete Customer Content during the Subscription Period, and Provider will do so within 30 days, except for records Provider must keep for billing, tax or legal reasons and aggregate statistics from which Customer cannot be identified.
C9. Boards after cancellation. Despite Section 5.5(a), Customer may keep and use, inside its own firm, the boards it received, including after the Agreement ends.
C10. Acceptable use. The following are added to Section 2.1(a) (Restrictions on Customer). Customer will not: (xi) resell, republish or redistribute boards outside its own firm (forwarding inside the firm is permitted); (xii) scrape or copy the Product at scale; (xiii) send Provider another vendor’s proposal, an agency’s evaluation material, anything a government buyer has marked confidential before award, or any other non-public information about a live procurement; or (xiv) use the Product to contact a government buyer in a way that breaks a solicitation’s communication rules. The Product works only from published documents. If Customer sends Provider non-public procurement information, Provider will delete it and tell Customer.
C11. Data sources, attribution and takedown. The solicitations Provider reads are public records published by government buyers. Provider quotes short passages to explain a verdict and links to the buyer’s own page for the full document rather than redistributing it. Some listing data comes under open licences, and each board carries the attribution those licences require. If a government buyer or rights holder objects to Provider’s quotation of its material, Provider will remove it. Objections go to the Notice Address.
C12. Refunds. In addition to Section 4.1 (Fees): the monthly plan is not refunded for a partial month, and Customer keeps receiving boards to the end of the paid month after cancelling.
C13. Logo rights. Section 12.8 (Logo Rights) is deleted and replaced with: “Provider will not name Customer, or use Customer’s name or logo, in marketing or anywhere else without Customer’s prior written permission.”
C14. Changes to these terms. Despite Section 12.2 (Modifications, Severability, and Waiver), Provider may change this Cover Page by emailing Customer the new version at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Cloud Service after that date is acceptance. If Customer objects, Customer may cancel before the effective date and will not be charged again. A change never applies to a dispute that arose before it took effect.
C15. Informal resolution first. Before either party files a claim in the Chosen Courts, the party raising it will write to the other and the parties will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days. This does not limit Section 12.4 (Injunctive Relief).
C16. Free and pilot use. Boards and backtests provided without charge are Beta Products under Section 12.7 (Beta Products) for purposes of Section 6.3.
Blue Peak Bid Board Pilot Terms
These Pilot Terms apply to firms in the free pilot (the free backtest and free boards before any charge). A free sample board we email a firm without being asked is a sample only: no terms attach to it and nothing starts. When a firm asks for a backtest or free weekly boards, we send these terms by email, and the firm accepts them by replying “agreed” before its first one. They are shown here so anyone can read them.
By replying “agreed”, your firm agrees to these terms with Blue Peak Data Consulting LLC, a Kansas limited liability company (“Blue Peak,” “we,” “us”), and the person replying confirms they can agree for the firm.
- What you get. A free backtest (you send us solicitations you already decided and your bid or skip call on each, and we send back our verdict, the quoted clause and the page beside your call) and, if we offer them, free weekly boards. It is free. You are not charged anything, and nothing renews into a paid plan unless you sign up for one separately.
- Not advice. The board is information and opinion about public documents. It is not legal, procurement or professional advice. A verdict is our reading of the document on the date we read it.
- You check before you act. Addenda and answers to questions can change a solicitation after we read it. You will read the source document and any addenda, which we cite by page, before you act on any verdict. The bid decision is yours.
- No guarantee. Coverage is limited to the sources we name, and we can be wrong or miss things. Verdicts are produced by software, including an AI model, with a human review of a sample. AI features are not human and are not a substitute for human oversight.
- No liability. Because the pilot is free, Blue Peak has no liability to your firm for anything arising from the backtest or the boards, to the fullest extent the law allows, and in no case for lost bids, lost contracts, lost profits or bid preparation costs. This does not cover fraud or willful misconduct.
- Confidentiality. Your profile, the solicitations and decisions you send us, your boards and your replies are confidential to your firm. We use them only to run the pilot for you and to measure our miss rate in a form that does not identify your firm. We share them only with the service providers named in our Privacy Policy that run the service, each bound to keep them confidential. We will not use them to train any AI model.
- Blue Peak bids on public work too. We may see the same solicitations you see. We will not use your profile, your boards or your decisions in deciding whether to bid, in any bid of our own, or in any teaming or subcontracting discussion, and we will not share them with any partner or subcontractor. Your verdicts come from the same written rules we use for everyone. We will never tell anyone else what your firm is pursuing.
- Your name. We will not name your firm anywhere, including as a pilot participant, without your written permission.
- Stopping and deletion. Either of us can stop the pilot at any time by email. If you ask, we will delete what you sent us within 30 days, keeping only aggregate statistics that cannot identify your firm.
- Law. Kansas law applies. Any dispute goes to the state courts in Johnson County, Kansas, or the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and who processes it. If your firm subscribes later, the Blue Peak Bid Board Terms of Service replace these terms from the day you subscribe, and the confidentiality promises above continue for everything you sent us during the pilot.
Contact
Blue Peak Data Consulting LLC
10420 S Ridgeview Rd #1022, Olathe, KS 66061
sergei@bluepeakdataconsulting.com · (913) 777-4770
Attribution and changes made
Adapted from the Common Paper Cloud Service Agreement and the Basecamp open-source policies, licensed CC BY 4.0. Common Paper and 37signals (Basecamp) do not endorse Blue Peak or the Blue Peak Bid Board.
Changes made. This page uses the Common Paper Terms of Service Cover Page, filled in with Blue Peak’s details, and incorporates the Common Paper Cloud Service Standard Terms Version 2.1 by link without changing their text. Every departure from the Standard Terms is listed above as C1 to C16: not advice; the customer verifies against the source; no completeness guarantee; Section 1.6 (Machine Learning) replaced with a no-training promise; an added disclaimer and damages waiver; confidentiality and the rule that Blue Peak never uses customer data in its own bidding; deletion in 30 days instead of 60; boards kept after cancellation; four added use restrictions; data sources and takedown; refunds; Section 12.8 (Logo Rights) reversed; an emailed-notice change process; informal resolution first; free use as a Beta Product. The General Cap Amount was changed from 12 months of Fees to 3 months, and $0 for free use; Provider Covered Claims were set to None. The service description, fees, trial, use limitations, support and plain-words summary were added by Blue Peak. The SLA, professional services, increased claims, DPA, security policy and insurance fields and the invoicing option were removed. The Pilot Terms are Blue Peak’s own wording, with one sentence shortened from Standard Terms Section 1.6.