Because a bid decision shouldn’t take a day of spreadsheet work
For decades, bid leveling has relied on spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and manual review.
Estimators spend countless hours comparing subcontractor proposals, searching through exclusions, identifying missing scope, normalizing pricing, and trying to determine which bid truly represents the best value — often under intense deadline pressure.
The problem is simple:
The lowest number is not always the lowest cost.
A proposal that appears cheaper may exclude critical scope, include unrealistic assumptions, or create risks that lead to expensive change orders, delays, and budget overruns after the project begins.
MyLevelBid was created to solve this — so construction teams can understand bids, not just compare them.
Built inside a working general contractor
MyLevelBid started where bid leveling actually happens: on a GC’s estimating desk.
Our CEO, Eric Collin, has run Firmo Construction since 2003, delivering more than 50 hotel, hospitality and commercial projects. Like every GC, Firmo leveled bids by hand: each proposal typed into a spreadsheet, exclusions hunted down one PDF at a time, and the whole tab rebuilt whenever an addendum landed.
MyLevelBid was built to do that work in minutes, and tested on Firmo’s real bid packages before anyone else saw it. Firmo’s estimators still tell us what is missing, and the product keeps changing because of them.
Meet the team behind it.
Making every construction bid decision clearer, faster, and smarter
Our mission is simple:
Help construction teams reduce risk, improve accuracy, and make better decisions before the first award.
We believe technology should enhance the knowledge and experience of construction professionals — not replace it.
MyLevelBid gives teams the insight they need to spend less time organizing information and more time making strategic decisions.
From the cheapest price to the best value
“Which subcontractor submitted the lowest price?”
“Which proposal provides the best value, lowest risk, and strongest alignment with project requirements?”
By reading every line of every bid against the same scope, MyLevelBid helps uncover:
Because successful projects begin with better decisions.
A few convictions the platform is built on
Scope Over Price
A low number with hidden exclusions is not a low number. The best bid is not always the cheapest bid — it is the bid that delivers the greatest value while reducing risk.
Speed With Accuracy
Preconstruction teams work under pressure. Faster decisions only matter when the information behind those decisions can be trusted. MyLevelBid helps teams move quickly while maintaining confidence in the numbers.
Built For The Field
Construction professionals understand construction best. Every workflow inside MyLevelBid is designed around how estimators, project managers, and preconstruction teams actually work — managing complex information, tight deadlines, and millions of dollars in project decisions.
Leveling is the start, not the finish.
Today MyLevelBid levels the bids, flags the gaps, and gives you a leveling sheet to plug them and total each bidder. What we are building toward is the rest of preconstruction in the same place — from the first bid in to the award and the handoff to the field — without rebuilding any of it in Excel.
Bid leveling and preconstruction risk management.
Know the cost before you commit.