What Is in a Construction Bid Package, and How to Read It
See what a bid package holds, what each document controls, and how to run a completeness check and a contradiction log before anyone starts to measure.
Bidding process
How a bid moves from invitation to submission: finding work, deciding whether to bid, reading the bid package, getting quantities done, covering every trade and running the clock on bid day. The guides cover which bid boards and portals to check. They give scorecards, checklists and timelines that a one-person bid desk or a small team can use on the next invitation, whether the work is private, public or federal. They also show where each step can be handed to someone else when the week is full and the bids keep arriving. Written for owners, estimators and bid managers at general contractors and specialty subcontractors.
What a bid desk hands back
- One bid log with every date on it, in Excel or CSV you own
- Trade packages with a written scope boundary on each one
- A leveling sheet with a plug column and an exclusions column
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