MERX construction bids in Canada — how to use them

Coverage overlap

MERX aggregates public and private opportunities. Some provincial postings mirror APC or Ontario portals; deduplicate by tender ID and closing date before your estimators price the same job twice.

Alert tuning

Start narrow (trade + province + minimum value), then widen if flow is thin. MERX email volume grows fast—route alerts to a shared inbox with triage rules.

Use Cornerstone Contracts to automate the search

Cornerstone Contracts ingests CanadaBuys, MERX, provincial portals, and municipal boards daily, scores opportunities against your trades and bond capacity, and drafts proposal shells you can refine before submission. Start free, upgrade when you are ready for unlimited AI drafts and calendar sync.

Create your contractor profile, pick provinces and specialties, and review your first scored matches within minutes — then open the proposal workspace from any match card.