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MyLevelBid
Know the cost before you commit.

Stop awarding to the wrong number.

Level every bid against one shared scope, catch every gap, and award with your whole team on the same numbers — in minutes.

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One full bid package leveled free — every bidder, full export. No credit card.

First leveling freeMinutes, not daysAny file formatScope-aware leveling
The problem

Bidding is stuck in spreadsheets.

And one missed exclusion can cost six figures.

Hours in Excel
Estimators retyping bids into spreadsheets, one column at a time.
Buried exclusions
“NIC” and “by others” lines hidden in fine print kill awards.
Scanned PDFs
Image-only bids mean rekeying everything before you can compare.
The fix — apples to apples

Every bid, mapped to one shared scope.

Free-form bids become a like-for-like grid — see who carries each scope item, who excluded it, and who left it out entirely. The cheapest bid usually isn't the lowest once those gaps are priced in.

Scope matrix — Division 03 Concrete
3 bidders aligned
Riverside Mixed-Use Development · Portland, OR · 84,000 sq ft
Scope item
Cascade
Summit
Pacific
Footings & foundations
$214k
$208k
$221k
Slab on grade
$96k
$91k
EXCL
Waterproofing
missing
$38k
$41k
Reinforcing steel
$152k
EXCL
$149k
Concrete finishing
$44k
$46k
$43k
carriedexcludedmissing
Silent gap surfaced: Cascade missed waterproofing
How it works

PDFs to award — in five steps.

No spreadsheets, no rekeying, no judgement calls in the dark.

1Step 1
Create a project

Add name, location, square footage.

2Step 2
Add bid packages

One per CSI division — tag the drawing phase.

3Step 3
Upload subs’ bids

PDF, Excel, Word — digital or scanned.

4Step 4
Run leveling

Every line read, every gap flagged.

5Step 5
Review & award

Side-by-side $/SF with a clear recommendation.

From inbox to award

Hours in Excel, done in minutes.

Before · ~6 hours
  • Retype every bid into a spreadsheet
  • Reconcile line items by hand
  • Hunt for buried exclusions
  • Miss one → award the wrong number
After15 minutes
  • Drop in PDF, Excel, or scanned bids
  • Every bid leveled to one shared scope
  • $/SF and scope gaps computed automatically
  • Award with a defensible recommendation
What it's worth

See your return in real time.

Drag the sliders to match your pipeline. The numbers move as you do — and they never stop being in your favor.

Your bid volume
15 / yr
24 pkgs

30 packages a month · 360 a year

$110/hr

Fully loaded — salary, burden, and overhead

Your scope risk
$35,000

What the gaps, exclusions, and “by others” lines cost you on a typical project once they surface as change orders

90%

Every bid is read line by line, so the target is all of them. Dial it down and check the math still works.

Estimated net annual benefit
$845,112
plus3,420 hoursback — the equivalent of 1.6 full-time estimators
$237
Back for every $1 spent
2 days
Payback
$849k
Gross benefit
Where the benefit comes from
Estimating time reclaimed
$376k
Missed scope avoided
$473k
$0$125k$250k$375k$500k
$56,580
of value per project you bid
3,420 hrs
off your estimators, at 9.5 hrs of leveling a package

Catch the missed scope on one project all year and MyLevelBid has already paid for itself 8.8× over. The other 14 projects are upside.

Price it against your numbers
30 packages a month · $10 per package leveled
8 seats

Extra seats beyond a plan's allowance are $20/mo each

Extra seats are $20/mo each. Need more packages? Step up a tier.

At 30 packages a month and 8 seats, the $299/mo plan pays for itself in 2 days and gives back $237 for every $1 you spend — $845,112 net and 3,420 hours for the year.

Prove it on your bids — free

Illustrative estimate. Net benefit is gross value less your annual MyLevelBid cost. Time reclaimed assumes 9.5 hours of spreadsheet leveling per bid package — the one figure the sliders don’t set.

See every assumption behind this number

Beyond software

Software stores your bids. Construction IQ understands them.

Most tools are filing cabinets. MyLevelBid reads every line and tells you what it means.

Traditional software
  • Stores your files
  • Tracks the numbers
  • Manages documents
Construction IQ
  • Levels every bid to one shared scope
  • Surfaces the gaps others miss
  • Flags risk before you award
  • Points to the real best value

Excel records the numbers. MyLevelBid understands them.

What you get

Built for how GCs actually work.

Every feature maps to something an estimator does today — just faster.

Scope matrix

Every bidder’s line items mapped to one canonical scope — compare like-for-like.

Scope gap detection

Every missing item and exclusion, flagged with the bidder who left it out.

Any bid format

PDF, Excel, Word — digital or scanned. OCR is automatic.

Phase comparison

See how the same trade re-priced from SD to IFC.

Team collaboration

Shared and private notes pinned to bidders, sections, and line items.

$/SF on every bid

Per-square-foot rates calculated automatically — grouped by CSI division.

Who it's for

Anyone who needs cost clarity in construction.

General contractors

Defensible awards without the spreadsheet marathon.

Estimators

Hours of comparison work, done in minutes.

Developers & owners

Bid intelligence and phase cost movement on demand.

Pre-con teams

Compare every iteration as drawings evolve.

New to bid leveling? The glossary defines the fifty terms estimators use when comparing subcontractor bids, and the comparisons resolve the pairs that get confused for each other — NIC versus “by others”, allowance versus contingency, and more.

Your next award starts here.

Sign up with your work email and level a full bid package free — upload your first bids in under five minutes.

Level your first bid free

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Contact

Let's talk about your next bid package.

Questions, demo requests, or support — reach the MyLevelBid team.

admin@mylevelbid.com