Bid requests: packages, quotes, leveling, award
A bid package is frozen when it goes out, the trades price it on their own links, the quotes level on one grid, and the award — the whole bid or line by line — writes the purchase orders and the budget's committed column without retyping.
1. Build the package
On the job's Bids tab a package names the budget lines it covers and carries the specs the trades need — attach sections from the Specs tab. Send it and the package is frozen: what the trades priced is what you read.
Open Bid requests →2. Trades price on their own link
Each trade gets a signed link and prices the lines there — no account to make. Prices land on the leveling grid as they come in; a trade that passes can decline from the same page.
The trade's side →3. Level the quotes
Every quote on one grid: the low line marked, each cell's rate per unit, a trade's exclusions, and your plugs and de-scopes under Adjustments so every bidder is read on the same scope. Vendor total and the leveled totals read beneath the lines.
Open Bid requests →4. Award — the whole bid, or line by line
Award all takes one bidder for the package. Click a cell to award that line to that bidder, or cherry-pick the lowest on every line. The grid shows who holds each line and each bidder's awarded sum; the award writes one purchase order per bidder with their lines, and the budget's committed column reads it at once.
The budget →5. The board across jobs
Bid requests lists every package across your jobs — what is out, what came back, what is awarded — so nothing waits unseen.
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