See what every sub quietly left out.

Bid Leveller is a free browser tool that turns sub bids pasted in any format (email text, Excel dumps, PDFs) into one leveled comparison table, with the scope each bidder excluded flagged before you award. No account; paste the bids and run it.

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Free · no account · we ask for an email after five runs

Good at:
Normalizing inconsistent sub bid formats and surfacing scope gaps before award.
Not for:
Calculating total project cost or validating unit prices.

Extracts only what bidders provided. Does not estimate missing scope or fill in gaps.

Paste all bids together. Email text, Excel output, PDF text: any format works. Label each bidder clearly.

PDF, Excel, CSV, or Word. Up to 3 files, 10 MB each.

Your normalized bid comparison will appear here once the tool runs.

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Questions people ask first

Takes sub bids in any format, pasted email body, copied spreadsheet rows, PDF text, and produces a normalised comparison table. Each bidder's scope, exclusions, allowances, and price laid out so you can see what each one actually included and what they quietly left out.

No. The Leveller compares scope, not budget. It tells you that Sub A excluded fire-stopping and Sub B included it; it doesn't roll a project total because that depends on the rest of your bid you didn't paste in.

The scope-gap section. The “Sub C is $4K cheaper than Sub B” line is obvious; the “Sub C excluded permit fees and rough-in coordination” line is what saves you from awarding the wrong bid and eating the gap.

Out of scope. The Leveller compares scope and totals, not unit-price reasonability. For unit-price validation (“is $4.20/SF for X reasonable for our market”), you need historical bid data the Leveller doesn't have.

Whatever you have. Pasted email body, copied table, exported PDF text, the Leveller is built to handle inconsistent formats because that's what real sub bids arrive in. If a bidder sent a one-page proposal and another sent a 12-tab spreadsheet, paste both. Cleanup is what the tool does.

What it catches

01

Normalize any format

Email text, an Excel dump, a PDF of a PDF: paste them together and get one clean, comparable table.

02

Surface the scope gaps

The line items one bidder included and another didn't, ranked by risk, so you compare scope and not just price.

03

Catch the exclusions

“Electrical per drawings” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. We pull the quiet exclusions into the open before award.

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