Bid proposals

Bid Proposal Software for Construction Contractors

A construction bid proposal is only as good as the numbers behind it. BidcoreAI drafts the proposal from the bid you actually priced, so the cover letter, approach, management plan and price schedule agree with the estimate.

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Cover letter drafted from the project and the bid
Technical approach and management plan drafted for review
Price schedule that matches the estimate
A person reviews and edits every section
Export as a Word (.doc) file or PDF

Bid Proposal Software: What It Is and Why It Matters

A construction bid proposal usually has a cover letter, a description of scope and approach, inclusions, exclusions and clarifications, alternates and unit prices, a schedule, a management plan and qualifications, a price schedule and the terms. Most of the time goes into rewriting the same sections for every bid, and into keeping them consistent with the estimate when a quantity, a subcontractor quote or an addendum changes.

BidcoreAI treats the proposal as the last step of one workflow, not a separate document. The takeoff and estimate you built are what the draft is written from, so the price schedule is the price you carried, and the scope in the narrative is the scope you measured.

What the proposal draft includes

Cover letter

A cover letter drafted from the project and the bid.

  • Project, owner and scope named correctly
  • Written for you to edit
Technical approach

How you will do the work, drafted from the scope you priced.

  • Follows the scope of the bid
  • Review and rewrite any paragraph
Management plan

Team, coordination and quality approach in a standard structure.

  • Starts from a structure you can reuse
  • Edit to match your company
Price schedule

The numbers come from the estimate you carried.

  • No retyping of totals
  • Changes to the bid flow into the draft

From priced bid to submitted proposal

  1. 1. Price the bid. Measure the drawings and price the scope in the estimate.
  2. 2. Generate the draft. Create the proposal sections from the bid you priced.
  3. 3. Review and edit. AI drafts and a person reviews. Nothing is sent on its own.
  4. 4. Export and submit. Export to Word (.doc) or PDF and send it the way the owner asks.

Bid Proposal Software: Your Questions Answered

It helps a contractor produce the written proposal that goes with a price: the cover letter, scope and approach, management plan and price schedule. BidcoreAI drafts these sections from the bid you priced so you edit instead of starting from a blank page.
It drafts the sections for you to review. A person reads and edits every section before it goes out; nothing is submitted automatically.
Yes. The price schedule is built from the estimate you carried, so a change in the bid is a change in the draft rather than a second set of numbers to retype.
A Word (.doc) file or a PDF.
Yes. For federal work the proposal is written to the evaluation criteria of the solicitation; see the federal bidding software page for how solicitations are read and qualified.
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