Set-Up is fast and easy! A majority of the time, all information has already been found and sent to the Insurance Company for quotes on Builder’s Risk, Bonding, etc.

Specifications can be selected from the included MasterFormat 2020. They can also be uploaded straight from the Table of Contents of the Specifications.

Once the items of work or Spec Sections have been established, they must be assigned to a Pricing/Bid Package for quotes from Subs/Suppliers.

BidArt offers great flexibility & customization when it comes to managing Pricing/Bid Packages. Company Administrators can simply create a Master List of pricing packages which then feeds into the projects, or use the included default list.

The project team can use the existing pricing packages coming from the Master List or create new pricing packages within the project.

With its advanced & robust Spec. Assignment Matrix,

BidArt makes it super easy to populate every Spec into the right place, where they belong within the project as per Plans & Specs.

Team Leaders/Lead Estimators can decide which specs need to go into the base bid, alternate(s) & unit prices, which then populates the Cost-of-Work Summary & Scope Sheets.

It is a powerful and robust module meant to be used by the Pricing/Bid Captain and the Pricing Leader/Lead Estimator and can be viewed by any user, with the proper permissions, at the same time. The accuracy and reliability of the Cost-of-Work Summary is what makes it stand out, and be appreciated by the users in stressful situations. When the bid is about to be turned in and last-minute changes are coming in, the Cost-of-Work Summary uses Signal-R technology to sync the data from all Scope Sheets… which means users don’t have to wait or refresh the webpage. Updates are done in real-time, within the blink of an eye, making the work less stressful and hassle free.

Oh, of course, the Cost-of-Work Summary can be exported as a spreadsheet and be formatted, saved and be printed as a hard copy.

Many times the pricing/bid submission time for the base bid & and alternates are different and multiple changes happen in-between. It is crucial to have backups of the progress made in this time frame.

So,  BidArt has the ability to maintain versions of every project, which can be manually saved at any point.

The versions create a backup of every detail within the project & it can be restored at any given moment.

Versions are saved with date & time stamp; users can set the name and description of the version to mark it with details that are saved in the version. A unique version ID is assigned to the version for better identification.

Contractors have their own list of “preferred” Subcontractors. Their Go-To subs.

Adding the same sub-contractor over and over, again & again in every project, with the sub-contractor’s contact person name, phone #, cell phone #, is a pain! It gets even worse when they have multiple contact persons.

We already saw that problem at BidArt! That’s why we have a master directory for sub-contractors. You create a sub-contractor account here once & then you can keep using it everywhere in any project, any scope sheet hassle-free!

We get it, everyone wants to submit a cost estimate that falls under the Client’s budget & attract them. But there’s a fine line between efficient Bid Levelling & something fishy happening in the scope sheets!

Advanced cautionary percentage checks each pricing packages to makes sure that the company Administrators, Team Captains and Team Leaders can see when the selected sub-contractor’s pricing is alarmingly low so that they can investigate the cause as need be.

The cautionary percentage check in BidArt allows the Administrators to know when action is needed by just taking a glance at the Cost-of-Work Summary.

Another unique feature of BidArt is its variance reports that are generated at the project level.

BidArt allows its users to save and maintain versions of each iteration of the project in a tidy place which can be restored too. These versions contain crucial data based on the status and level of the project when saved.

Variance Reports allows the user to pick any versions of the Project and then compare them side-by-side to see the changes that have occurred in the pricing from one iteration to the next. Another tedious and next to impossible task with spreadsheets that is made easy by BidArt.

Variance Reports can only be accessed by exporting as a spreadsheet.

The Project Summary is the summary of the entire project pricing. Costs (above the line) come from the Cost-of-Work Summary.

“Add-Ons”, such as insurances, bonds, general conditions, etc. (below the line costs) are added to the costs brought forward from the Cost-Of-Work Summary, arriving a total of all costs. Fee and final adjustments are added to the costs to arrive at the “As Submitted” Pricing.

The key feature of BidArt ‘s Project Summary is its robust & accurate iterative calculation system which runs multiple times and handles large dollar amounts with ease to bring forward the estimated costs effectively and efficiently. Oh, again, you can export the Project Summary to be saved or used as a hard copy as well!

DATA ANALYTICS pulls every project created with the same project type into one screen. It then sorts Pricing/Bid date and compares them for you to see how the costs of previous projects of the same type compare.

It is VERY easy to recreate “past” projects in BidArt. Thus, enabling ALL historical data to be included.

One of the unique features of BidArt is that it lets the company administrators and team leaders to compare the data analytics of different projects and building types in one screen which is next to impossible with just spreadsheets.

And this data analytics sheet can always be exported to a spreadsheet to be saved and used as a hardcopy.