Bid leveling for commercial estimators

Commercial estimators leveling multiple sub bids under deadline pressure.

Bid week means receiving trade bids in a dozen formats and reconciling them into one master sheet by hand, against a deadline that doesn't move. The errors that slip through aren't from bad math — they're from the sheer volume of manual reformatting.

We had 2 estimators handling everything and received 200+ bids just 4 days before deadline. We kept revising after submission and we found around 0.4% in gaps that were super avoidable if we had more time.

a commercial estimator on r/estimators

This isn't just annoying — it's a huge waste of your time. And worse, it introduces errors and risk into your projects.

an estimator in an industry write-up

How it works

01

Skip the reformatting

Paste bids as received, in whatever format each bidder used — no rebuilding them into your template first.

02

Get one master comparison

Every bid lands on the same scope basis, so the comparison is real instead of an educated guess about what each number includes.

03

Spot the exclusions before proposal

Flagged gaps mean the 0.4% that usually surfaces after submission gets caught before it does.

Next step

Free, runs in your browser, no signup.

Bid LevellerFree

Paste sub bids in any format. Get a normalized comparison and what each bidder quietly left out.

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Beyond this page

The tool catches it on one bid. The Estimate Review ($12,000 one-time) finds the pattern across your process.