Caliche (caliche.io)

Caliche (caliche.io) — Line-item Texas civil bid-price index built from public bid tabulations: 1,783,107 real contractor-submitted unit-price observations across 90,250 pay items, 254 counties (182 with full bid-tab depth), 3,100+ public agencies, and 7,518 named contractors — reconstructed as complete bid fields, meaning the winner AND every losing bidder priced line-for-line. Indexed nightly with a daily movers series on 90-day item price change. Prices are calibrated by agency type (developer/subdivision vs municipal spreads run to 51% on the same item). Two derived byproduct layers sit o…

Caliche (caliche.io) offers (Alternative, Supply Chain, Fundamental, Reference) — Stated on the property: 1,783,107 bid observations; 90,250 items; 254 counties with 182 at bid-tab depth; 7,518 indexed contractors; 3,100+ public agencies. County concentration is published (Harris 45,606; Fort Bend 13,919; Montgomery 9,385; Galveston 8,792). Segment item counts: waterline 9,885 items/164 counties, sewer 7,971/130, storm 9,324/134, paving 8,839/180, structures 1,314/109. Derived ranking layer: 2,684 competitively bid jobs, 340 ranked firms, 2,169 competing firms, ~$5.9B of winning-bid value over 24 months. Bid board aggregates 500+ live solicitations across six-plus Texas portals..

Municipal/utility civil bid-price forecasting and competitive positioning; a genuinely local construction input-cost index at county and agency-type resolution (the movers series is a monthly-to-quarterly escalation signal far ahead of national cost books); public-infrastructure spending and margin alpha for investors in listed civil contractors and aggregates/cement producers; bid-abuse and lowball detection from the loser distribution (published finding: typical losing bid runs ~24% over the winner); engineer's-estimate accuracy benchmarking; surety and lender underwriting on contractor bid quality; utility capital-program cost validation; and — from the takeoff corpus — high-value document-AI training data for engineering-drawing layout understanding, OCR of field callouts, and quantity-takeoff supervision, which is not available from any public source.