About Hubstake
Prices public agencies actually awarded, with the document behind each one.
Hubstake reads public bid tabulations from state DOTs, counties, cities, utilities and special districts and turns them into a searchable index of unit prices. Every price links to the agency document it came from, so anyone can check it.
How the index is built
- Public records only: documents agencies publish, and records they release on request. Collected with rate limits and robots.txt respected.
- Medians use winning bids only. Losing bids are kept separately and labelled; engineer’s estimates are never counted as bids.
- Every source is spot-checked: before a new source enters the index, 12 randomly chosen rows must match the original documents, 12 of 12.
- Whole bids must add up: a winning bid’s line items have to reconcile with the total the agency printed.
- Dates and dollars as published: nominal dollars, letting dates shown, and the data date on every page.
What it isn’t
Not a cost estimate and not an appraisal. A bid or awarded unit price can differ from what was finally paid after change orders. A price outside a range is a question to ask, not a finding.
Who uses it
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