Bid leveling for general contractors

General contractors who need to compare subcontractor bids that never arrive in the same format.

A GC collecting five bids for the same scope is really collecting five different scopes with five different price tags. Reconciling them by hand means copying numbers into a master sheet and hoping nothing got missed along the way.

Get 3 quotes per trade (subs and suppliers), Compare them side-by-side, Build a clean master estimate, Add overhead + profit correctly.

a GC on r/Construction

You send out a clean, structured Excel file. Three bidders return it with deleted rows, rearranged columns, and weird formulas you didn't add.

an estimator in an industry write-up

How it works

01

Paste every bid, whatever the format

PDF, Excel, a locked spreadsheet from a sub who ignored your template — Bid Leveller reads what you paste and pulls the line items out itself.

02

See what's actually comparable

Bids get normalized onto a common scope basis, so a lower number that quietly excludes demo isn't sitting next to one that includes it without a flag.

03

Catch what each bidder left out

The comparison surfaces exclusions and gaps by bidder, so you know what's missing before award — not after the first change order.

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.