Bid Economics Calculator

What is one better bid decision
worth in actual dollars?

Plug in your numbers. See what smarter bid selection looks like for your volume and win rate.

Bids you review per year 40 bids
Hours to evaluate each bid 6 hrs
Current win rate 20%
Average project value $250K
Net margin on won work 12%
Estimator hourly cost $65/hr
Your Bid Economics
$47K
estimated annual value with BidIntell
$47K margin upside + $6K time recaptured

How we calculate this:

Industry data shows the average subcontractor wins about 1 in 5 bids. That means roughly 80% of your estimating time goes toward projects you won't win.

BidIntell helps you identify low-fit bids before you invest hours estimating them — so you can focus that time on projects where you have a real shot.

Time savings are based on skipping bids that score below your threshold. If you currently spend 6 hours per bid and BidIntell helps you pass on even 2–3 poor-fit bids per month, that's the time saved above.

Win rate improvement assumes that focusing on better-fit projects — right location, right GC, right scope — naturally increases your hit rate.

These projections sharpen as you track real outcomes in BidIntell.

Estimating hours / year
240 hrs
144 hrs
−96 hrs saved
Est. value of time recaptured (est.)
$6,240
hrs saved × $65/hr
Expected wins / year
8.0
9.0
+1.0 more wins
Annual margin earned
$240K
$287K
+$47K
At $99/mo, that's a 40× return — if even half holds.
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