TRANSFORMING STATE
LEGISLATIVE BUDGETING
BIDS helps legislators and fiscal staff fund what matters – enabling smarter, faster decisions.
BIDS (Budget Intelligence Development System) is a purpose-built budgeting platform designed for government. It turns complex financial data into clear, actionable insights – accelerating analysis, improving transparency, and supporting better decisions at every stage of the budget process.
BIDS Supports All Aspects of Financial Management in the Legislature
BUDGET REVIEW
STRUCTURES THE GOVERNOR’S PROPOSAL FOR FAST DETAILED REVIEW
The Governor’s budget is complex—BIDS breaks it down by key initiatives, highlights year-on-year changes, and flags areas of concern. BID’s easy to use budget assistant enables your research team to answer legislators’ questions quickly during the analysis phase. Track budget amendments and substitutions across chambers and stages—automatically.
PROJECT PRIORITIZATION
OBJECTIVELY EVALUATES AND RANKS PROJECTS
BIDS helps legislators assess and compare capital and policy proposals using transparent, data-driven criteria to support consistent, defensible funding decisions.
REVENUE FORECASTING & TAX POLICY
MODELS THE IMPACT OF REVENUE CHANGES
Forecast the effects of proposed tax or fee changes. BIDS simulates short and long term scenarios to support sound, data-driven decision making.
FISCAL OVERSIGHT
CONNECTS APPROPRIATIONS TO EXPENDITURES
BIDS helps legislative staff verify that spending aligns with legislative direction by tracking agency activity, monitoring compliance and flagging variances.
PERFORMANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY & RESULTS
LINKS DOLLARS TO OUTCOMES
BIDS ties funding to performance indicators—supporting reinvestment in effective programs and greater accountability across government. BIDS helps staff stay grounded in facts when making decisions, ensuring consistency, neutrality, and defensible outcomes.
ECONOMIC FORECASTING
SUPPORTS STRUCTURAL FISCAL ANALYSIS
Test assumptions, model caseloads, and project future scenarios. BIDS helps legislatures understand long-term impacts of fiscal decisions.
CAPITAL PLANNING & DEBT
TRACKS PROJECTS & ASSESSES AFFORDABILITY
BIDS manages capital plans, project timelines and debt authorizations – giving legislators insight into infrastructure pipelines and borrowing impacts.
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET SYSTEMS
REPLACES FRAGMENTED TOOLS WITH ONE PLATFORM
Move beyond disconnected spreadsheets. BIDS provides a centralized, secure, and collaborative workspace for legislative budgeting.
FEDERAL FUNDS & GRANTS
MONITORS FEDERAL DOLLARS & STATE MATCHES
Track infrastructure and grant funds with recipient level detail. BIDS ensures compliance, maximizes utilization, flags unspent funds at risk of reversion, and alerts staff to emerging risks or the need for legislative action.
APPROPRIATIONS & FUND ALLOCATION
ALIGNS FUNDING WITH LEGISLATIVE INTENT
Track how funds flow across programs, agencies and districts. BIDS supports side-by-side views of Governor’s, House and Senate budget versions – down to the line item.
DISTRICT-LEVEL TRANSPARENCY
DELIVERS LOCAL IMPACT REPORTING
BIDS generates dashboards and summaries by district—helping legislators show constituents where funds go, and what they achieve. Quickly generate custom views, reports, or district-level summaries for leadership, members, or constituents.
APPROPRIATIONS & FUND ALLOCATION
ALIGNS FUNDING WITH LEGISLATIVE INTENT
Track how funds flow across programs, agencies and districts. BIDS supports side-by-side views of Governor’s, House and Senate budget versions – down to the line item.
DISTRICT-LEVEL TRANSPARENCY
DELIVERS LOCAL IMPACT REPORTING
BIDS generates dashboards and summaries by district—helping legislators show constituents where funds go, and what they achieve. Quickly generate custom views, reports, or district-level summaries for leadership, members, or constituents.