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Bid scoring software for subcontractors

Know which bids are
worth your time —
before you estimate.

BidIntell scores every invite 0–100, weighted to your trade, region, and client history. The same job scores differently for different shops — so GO, REVIEW, or PASS is the call for your business, not a generic read on the PDF.

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Bid Report SAMPLE
83 BIDINDEX
GO
Medical Office Renovation
ABC General · Your Area · $4.2M
Location Fit92
Trade Match88
Client Relationship75
Contract Risk78
12 mi from office
Prior client relationship
Pay-if-paid clause detected
1 in 5
bids won · industry est.
80%
of bids that never become wins
$75–300
saved per estimate · est.
Filter out the 80% before your estimators invest a single hour.
01The problem

Plenty of tools find you bids. None help you decide which ones to chase.

Once the PDF lands in your inbox, you're on your own — no data, no history, no system learning from your decisions. That's the gap.

A

Gut-feel decisions

Every invite gets the same treatment because there's no data telling you which match your business. Your best estimators waste hours on projects that were never a fit.

→ wasted estimating hours, missed winnable work
B

No pricing feedback

You submit and hear nothing. No insight into what would have won, no way to know if you were priced right or competing against 10 other subs.

→ every lost bid should teach you something
C

No learning loop

Win or lose, the knowledge stays in someone's head. Nothing tracks which clients respond, which project types you win, or where to focus your time.

→ your bid history should be working for you
02How it works

Analyze. Decide. Track. Learn. Repeat.

Every bid you analyze and every outcome you record feeds your intelligence engine. It gets smarter about your business over time.

1

Get the bid in. We read it.

Upload a PDF or forward the invite email. BidIntell pulls scope, contract terms, and risk flags — then scores it against your profile in seconds.

2

Get a personalized call

Your BidIndex Score (0–100) weighs project fit, client relationship, location, and competitive pressure — tuned to your trade and bid history.

3

Every outcome builds your edge

Record won, lost, ghosted, or passed. Each decision feeds your engine — future scores get sharper as your history grows.

03Who it's for

Anyone submitting a commercial construction bid.

If you receive bid invites and have to decide which are worth your time and resources, BidIntell is built for you.

Trades

Subcontractors

Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, drywall, painting, flooring — any trade bidding commercial work. Analyze invites, track outcomes, build intelligence around your win patterns.

Solo estimators → 10-person teams
Supply

Distributors & suppliers

Building material distributors who quote commercial projects. Know which opportunities match your product lines, delivery radius, and client relationships.

Stop quoting projects that go nowhere
Reps

Manufacturers' reps

Reps submitting pricing on behalf of manufacturers. Track which specs get selected, which GCs and architects value your products, and where to focus.

Data on what wins, not just what you quoted
04Personalized scoring

Same bid. Different score. That's the point.

An HVAC contractor with a 50-mile radius and an electrician across the state should never get the same recommendation on the same job. BidIntell weights every bid the way you prioritize.

User-defined scoring weights — client, trade, location, or risk
Quick presets: Relationship-First, Risk-Averse, Trade Specialist, Market-Volume
Trade matching against CSI MasterFormat section codes
Contract risk detection: pay-if-paid, retainage, vague scope
One project — three shops
Contractor A
HVAC · 50mi · High capacity
83
Contractor B
Electrical · 30mi · Moderate
52
Contractor C
Plumbing · 75mi · Low capacity
34
Same project — three profiles, three calls
Pending 4
Medical Office
83
Office Park
71
Won 3
K-8 School
88
Urgent Care
79
Lost 2
County Admin
44
Ghosted 2
Apt Complex
38
05Outcome tracking

Every bid outcome builds your intelligence edge.

Won, lost, ghosted, passed, or never pursued — BidIntell tracks every outcome and captures why. Over time, patterns emerge: which project types you win, which clients respond, where your sweet spot really is.

Outcome recording: Won, Lost, Ghosted, Passed, No Bid
Decline reasons captured — capacity, bad contract, wrong trade
Win-rate tracking by trade, location, and project type
Client behavior patterns — who responds, who ghosts, who price-checks
06Learns your business

The more you log, the sharper it gets.

Most software is as smart on day one as it ever gets. BidIntell is different — every bid you analyze, outcome you track, and client you rate feeds your own scoring engine. Your recommendations sharpen the longer you use it, tuned to your trade, your clients, and your market.

Competitive Pressure Score — built from the bidder counts you log, live after 3+ outcomes on a client
Bid Risk flag — warns when multiple risk indicators stack up
Client reputation — ghost rate, response, and payment reliability from your own logged outcomes
Your data stays yours — every score is private to your account
Competitive PressureHIGH
You've logged 6–8 bidders on this client's commercial electrical work
Bid RiskELEVATED
→ Vague scope: "specs TBD" ×4
→ Aggressive timeline for size
→ 7+ bidders logged on this client
"Add 12–15% contingency, or pass."
78%
response
12%
ghost rate
9
bids logged
Illustrative · Built from the outcomes you log · Private to your account
07How scoring works

What the BidIndex Score actually measures

The BidIndex is a fit score — not a win probability. It's a triage tool: spend time on bids worth chasing, skip the ones that aren't.

You set the weights

The percentages below are default weights — not hardcoded rules.

In Settings → Scoring, every contractor tunes how much each factor counts toward their BidIndex. Push weight to what matters for your shop; the four must add up to 100. That's why the same bid scores differently for two companies.

Relationship-First Risk-Averse Trade Specialist Market-Volume
Default weighting ◆ adjustable per account
30%
Location Fit
default · you set yours

Distance from your office to the site vs. the service radius you set. Closer scores higher — crew mobilization, supervision, and daily logistics favor work near base. If location doesn't matter for you, its weight redistributes automatically.

Project city/state Drive distance Service radius
25%
Contract & Scope
default · you set yours

Matches scope language against your good/bad keywords, plus contract risk detection. Clause patterns like pay-if-paid, unlimited lien waivers, and compressed schedules are flagged and can apply a penalty based on your risk tolerance.

Good keywords Risk keywords Clause detection
25%
Client Relationship
default · you set yours

Looks up the named client against your Clients list. Uses your actual win rate if you've worked together, your star rating if you've rated them, or a default for unknowns. Your history is private to your account.

GC / client match Star rating Win rate
20%
Trade Match
default · you set yours

Checks whether the scope actually includes your trade, via CSI MasterFormat section codes — reading spec headers, drawing sheet prefixes (M-, P-, E-, FP-), material keywords, and invitation scope. Section-level matching (09 65 00) is far more precise than division-level.

CSI codes Sheet prefixes Material keywords
Score ranges ◆ your thresholds · you set yours

These cutoffs are defaults, too. Set your own GO / REVIEW / PASS thresholds — and your capacity setting shifts them automatically: in aggressive mode borderline bids lean toward REVIEW, in slow mode the bar tightens.

GO80–100

Strong fit across most factors. Worth pricing seriously.

default cutoff · adjustable
REVIEW60–79

Mixed signals. Open it and decide if the tradeoff is worth it.

default cutoff · adjustable
PASSBelow 60

Multiple weak factors. Not the right bid right now.

default cutoff · adjustable
08Bid economics

What is one better bid decision worth?

Plug in your numbers. See smarter bidding in actual dollars.

Bids reviewed per year40
Hours to evaluate each bid6 hrs
Current win rate20%
Average project value$250K
Net margin on won work12%
Estimator hourly cost$65/hr
Estimated annual value
$42K
$36K margin upside + $6K time recaptured
Estimating hours saved96 hrs
Expected wins8.0 → 9.2
Annual margin earned$240K → $276K
At $99/mo, that's a 36× return — if even half holds.
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Assumes BidIntell helps you skip ~40% of poor-fit bids (time saved) and that focusing on better-fit work lifts win rate ~15% relative. Projections sharpen as you track real outcomes.
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09Resources

Learn how specialty subs win more work

New · Early access

Introducing BidIntell Capacity

BidIndex tells you what to chase. Capacity tells you whether you can staff it — and afford it. Turn your awarded backlog and weighted pipeline into a weekly, role-by-role labor forecast, and see whether your gross margin can carry the crew, PMs, and support staff you'd need.

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Simple pricing

Built for the industry. Priced to make sense.

No enterprise sales calls. No per-seat nonsense. Plans that pay for themselves after one good bid decision.

Monthly Annual −20%
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$49/mo
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Unlimited bid analyses
Personalized BidIndex Score
Reads bid PDFs automatically
Outcome tracking dashboard
Contract risk flagging
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Everything in Solo
3 estimator seats
Shared client database
Email forwarding — auto-analyze
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8 estimator seats
Company-wide reporting
Priority support
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