bid-deadline-check

Read a government solicitation (RFP, RFQ, IFB; PDF or text) and get back:

• Deadlines with date, time and timezone: questions due, proposal due, site visit, intent to bid, orals
• Page limits per volume
• Format rules: font, margins, paper size, spacing, file format
• Forms and clauses: SF-1449, SF-33, SF-30, FAR 52.xxx, DFARS 252.xxx
• Sections and volumes referenced (L, M, Volume I/II/III)
• Every "shall / must" requirement aimed at the offeror
• A compliance checklist (text, JSON, CSV or Markdown)
• Warnings for what's missing: no proposal due date, a time with no timezone, no page limits

It is deterministic: regex and rules only. No LLM, no network, nothing leaves your machine.

Quickstart

pip install "git+https://github.com/itcustomsolution/bid-deadline-check#egg=bid-deadline-check[pdf]"
# Not published on PyPI yet; install from GitHub as above.

bid-deadline-check solicitation.pdf
bid-deadline-check solicitation.pdf -f csv > compliance-matrix.csv
bid-deadline-check solicitation.txt -f md
bid-deadline-check solicitation.txt -f json

Example output (from tests/fixtures/rfp_sample.txt, a synthetic RFP):

DEADLINES
  [questions_due] October 20, 2026 2:00 PM Eastern Time  (line 6)
  [proposal_due] November 5, 2026 11:00 AM EDT  (line 7)
  [site_visit] 10/27/2026 10:00 AM local time  (line 8)
PAGE LIMITS
  Volume I Technical: 20 pages  (line 13)
  Volume II Past Performance: 10 pages  (line 14)
...

--strict exits with code 2 when there are warnings, so you can gate a script on it.

Library

from bid_deadline_check import analyze, read_document

report = analyze(read_document("solicitation.pdf"))
for d in report.deadlines:
    print(d.kind, d.date, d.time, d.timezone)
rows = report.checklist()   # list of dicts: id, category, item, line, done

Scope and limits

• It finds what is written; it does not interpret it. Always read the solicitation and every amendment yourself. This is a checklist aid, not legal or contracting advice.
• Scanned PDFs without a text layer return no text. Run OCR first.
• Dates are reported as written; no timezone conversion.
• Limits: files and stdin over 50 MB are refused; PDFs over 1000 pages, over 5 million extracted characters, or over 60 s of extraction (checked between pages) are refused. PDF parsing relies on pypdf >= 6.19. A single slow page can still exceed the time budget, so only open solicitations from sources you trust.
• CSV output prefixes cells that start with =, +, -, @, tab or CR with '. This is a common mitigation for formula injection; it is not tested against any particular spreadsheet application.
• Out of scope: scoring, bid/no-bid, writing proposal content.

Development

python -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

Fixtures are synthetic. Please don't add real solicitations that carry controlled or proprietary markings.

License

MIT © IT Custom Solution