The obvious counter to this, and it's built-in to the process, is the "past qualifications" requirement. If your company has never built a bridge, they should

The obvious counter to this, and it's built-in to the process, is the "past qualifications" requirement. If your company has never built a bridge, they should have been disqualified from the bidding process via F.A.R. The usual workaround for this is in IT is to sub-contract the necessary portions to those with said experience, so that the packaged team has the experience as a whole, but while that might seem like a loophole, it generally isn't bad because it means that the ones with the experience are the ones doing the work that requires the experience. Admittedly, this isn't federal, and I don't know how what the bidding requirements are for state work, but if there's no disqualifier for "never done this before", heaven help the state of California.