How to use BidPalika

What you are looking at

BidPalika is one feed of public procurement notices gathered from local levels across all seven provinces, plus provincial directorates and federal departments. Newest sits at the top, grouped by day, so a daily glance tells you what has appeared since you last looked.

Browsing and searching need no account. A free Calenote account adds the filters — province, district, local level, level of government and category — which is what most people want once they are checking regularly.

One thing to understand before you rely on it: BidPalika is an index, not a replacement for the official notice. Every card links back to the office that published it, and that document is the one that governs your bid.

Narrowing to the work you can actually do

Most people over-broaden at first, watch a hundred irrelevant notices scroll past, and stop checking. The filters exist to prevent exactly that.

Start with place. Choose your province, then your district, then a specific local level if you work in only one. The counts beside each option are live, so you can see immediately whether a district is worth watching.

Then decide on level of government. Local levels publish the bulk of smaller works; provincial and federal offices publish larger contracts and most national supply orders. These are separate axes on purpose — a federal buyer is not inside any palika, so those notices carry the buying office's name in place of a district.

Finally, category. Works, goods, services and quotations rarely overlap in practice. A supplier who filters to Goods stops scrolling past road contracts, and starts checking daily.

Reading a notice card

Each card carries the category, the place or the buying office, the notice title as the office wrote it, and when it appeared. Titles arrive in both Nepali and English depending on who published them, and search covers both — as well as office names and contract reference numbers.

Where the issuing office publishes a closing date, the card shows it. Where the date lives inside an attached document, the card says to see the notice rather than printing a date that might be wrong. This is deliberate: a wrong deadline costs a contractor a bid, and a confident-looking wrong date is worse than an honest gap.

New notices are marked as such and grouped by day. If you check every morning, the top group is your entire job.

A habit that takes two minutes

Set your filters once. Bookmark the page — or your district's own page, which has its own address and lists only that district. Then open it with your morning tea and read the top group.

That is the whole workflow. The value is not in any single feature; it is that checking becomes short enough that you actually do it every day, which is the only thing that reliably stops a good job going past unnoticed.