Bidding software for general contractors, primes and subcontractors. Split a priced estimate into subcontractor packages, send ITBs with the right sheets attached, track coverage by trade, level the quotes that come back against the scope you actually sent, and draft the proposal from the estimate you priced.
Estimating and bidding are different problems. Estimating asks what the work costs. Bidding asks whether every scope item is covered by somebody, whether the quotes you received can be compared at all, and whether the number you submit reflects the scope you priced. Plenty of contractors lose money on jobs they estimated accurately, because a trade went uncovered, a low quote turned out to exclude half the scope, or an addendum landed on the Tuesday and never reached the four subs already holding the old drawings.
BidcoreAI treats bidding as the second half of one workflow rather than as a separate product. The estimate you built is what generates the bid packages: scope, quantities, drawings and specification sections travel together, so a package sent to a drywall subcontractor contains the wall types, the finish schedule and the sheets those quantities came from, rather than a link to the whole set and a hope.
Coverage is the number that matters on bid day, and it is the one most contractors track in a spreadsheet that is out of date by lunchtime. The platform tracks invitations by trade and package: who was invited, who confirmed, who is quoting, who declined and which packages have no bidder at all. That last group is the one that decides whether you submit with confidence or with a plug number.
Leveling is where the actual judgement lives. Quotes rarely cover the same scope — one includes hoisting, another excludes it; one carries the specified product, another substituted; one covers the whole package, another priced two of its five sections. Comparing totals in that situation is meaningless. Leveling puts the quotes side by side against the scope you sent, shows what each included and left out, and produces a comparable number for each. The proposal is then drafted from the priced estimate itself, so the narrative, the inclusions and the number cannot drift apart between the spreadsheet and the letter.
From the moment the estimate is priced to the moment the proposal is submitted.
Generated from the estimate, so scope, quantities and drawings travel together.
Sent, tracked and chased, with a record of who has what version of the documents.
The question that actually decides bid day: what has no bidder on it.
Quotes compared against the scope you sent rather than against each other's totals.
Because an addendum a subcontractor never saw is a quote for the wrong project.
Drafted from the priced estimate, with the assumptions carried across intact.
Built for the week where the estimate is done and the bid still is not.
Bid packages built from the priced estimate, carrying scope, quantities, drawings and the relevant specification sections.
Invitations sent per package with the correct document version recorded against each bidder.
Live view of which trades are covered, which have a single quote and which have nobody bidding at all.
Quotes compared against the scope sent, not against each other, with an adjusted comparable figure per bidder.
Subcontractor quotes read for inclusions, exclusions, substitutions and alternates rather than retyped by an estimator.
Addenda logged, distributed and acknowledged per bidder, so nobody quotes a superseded set unknowingly.
Contract clauses, liquidated damages, insurance limits and schedule risk extracted with page citations before you commit.
A proposal drafted from the estimate, in the structure the client or solicitation asked for.
Alternates, allowances and unit price schedules carried through the estimate into the proposal without re-entry.
Fee, contingency and escalation adjusted at the last minute with the effect on the number visible immediately.
Several people working the same bid — one levelling MEP, one chasing coverage — with a record of every change.
Comparisons, coverage reports and the final bid exported to Excel or CSV for your own bid form.
Split by division, or by the trade boundaries your market actually uses.
Hard bid, design-build, CM at risk and negotiated work — the coverage problem is the same in all of them.
Seven steps, and the estimate stays the single source of the number throughout.
The panic is usually about information, not about time.
Knowing at 9am which packages have no bidder is what turns bid day into a plan instead of a scramble for a plug number.
A quote 18% below the others is either a bargain or a misread scope. Line-level leveling is the only thing that tells you which before you carry it.
Tracking which bidder holds which addendum removes the failure where a sub prices last week's drawings and you find out after award.
Drafting the proposal from the priced estimate is what stops the narrative and the bid form disagreeing about what was included.
Liquidated damages, insurance limits and schedule terms extracted with citations gives you a position on risk rather than a discovery after signing.
Who was invited, what they were sent, what they said and what you carried — recorded, and still there when the job is being argued about in month seven.
Because the bid and the estimate are the same project, not two exports.
Built from the estimate, carrying quantities, drawings and spec sections rather than a link to the full set.
Uncovered trades and single-quote risk visible while there is still time to do something about them.
Inclusions and exclusions extracted from the document rather than retyped by whoever opened the email.
Solicitation-driven bidding is built in too — see federal bidding software.
Bid day works from anywhere, with several people in the same bid at once.
When the estimate itself is the bottleneck, estimating services run in this same platform.
Bidding software fixes the assembly problem. It does not price a package nobody had time to estimate. When the estimate itself is the constraint, estimators working in this same platform will measure and price the scope and hand it straight into your bid — typically in 24 to 72 hours.
One platform, one cost database, one set of drawings — whichever scope you are pricing today.
Bring the quotes from a bid you submitted. Levelling them line against line is usually the moment it becomes obvious.
