The bid desk for contractors

Every bid,
minus the busywork.

BidFuel reads the solicitation, quantifies the work, and tracks every compliance item — so you spend your time deciding what to bid, not assembling it.

No card, no API key. Watch a real solicitation become a bid in seconds.

Best value

Elm Street Reconstruction — Phase 2

City of Fairview · Public Works

Due in 2d
Roadway excavation2,400 cy$38/u
Aggregate base1,850 tn$29/u
HMA paving3,100 tn$96/u
Concrete curb & gutter4,200 lf$34/u
12 / 12 compliance

Bid total

$486,200

Site workGrading & earthworkPavingConcreteUtilitiesDemolitionElectricalFencingLandscapingErosion controlTraffic controlStriping

200+

pages read per solicitation

Minutes

from RFP to draft bid

Your history

sets every price

Every line

traced back to the RFP

How it works

Three steps from RFP to bid-ready.

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Drop in the solicitation

PDF, Word, Excel, or a whole ZIP. Scanned pages get OCR’d. BidFuel pulls the facts: owner, due date, site walk, bonds, prevailing wage, licensing.

02

Review the extracted bid

Quantified work items, a compliance matrix, and required forms — each traceable back to the exact page in the RFP. Correct anything in place.

03

Price it from your own history

Every line suggests a price from your past jobs and a bottom-up cost build-up. Write your proposal in your own words and BidFuel checks it against the solicitation — and grades your submission — before you send it.

What’s inside

A desk that does the parts you dread.

AI intake

Reads the whole solicitation and returns quantified, unit-tagged work items — with the modifiers that actually move price.

unit vs lump sumsite accessphased workprevailing wage

Compliance matrix

Every submittal requirement and agency form, flagged mandatory vs optional and tracked to done — nothing slips before the deadline.

Cost build-up

Bottom-up from crew, equipment, production, mob and haul. A cross-check on every number.

Priced from history

Each line suggests the median of your past prices, so bids stay consistent and defensible.

Pipeline & deadlines

A live board of what’s open, what’s due, and your win rate by agency and size.

100%

Traceable to the RFP

Every extracted line links back to the exact page it came from. Correct anything in place.

The whole desk

Every deadline, price, and rival on one screen.

Intake is where a bid starts. BidFuel also runs your deadline calendar, your price book, and what the competition charges — so nothing about a live bid is stranded in a spreadsheet.

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Site walk Bid dueA mandatory walk lights the bid it feeds — the rest dims.

Built by

We built the tool we couldn’t find.

Years crafting proposals alongside a contractor’s operations team — and an engineer from Nvidia who’s led AI teams.

Contractor operations — years in the bid process
Nvidia — an engineer who’s led AI teams

Price book

Aggregate base · TON

5 comps · your jobs
$29median / ton
$27 lowmedian $29$31 high
Traffic control · DAY$880 med
Mobilization / Demob · LS$9,500 med

Competitive intel

Traffic control · DAY

6 tabulations
You
$880
Apex Grading
$840
Valley Civil · low
$760

You’re 16% over the low bid on this line — and you’ve won 3 of your last 5 against Valley Civil.

“The bid I used to lose a Saturday to now takes an afternoon, and I stopped leaving margin on the tablebecause I couldn’t remember last year’s number.”

A fuels-reduction contractor · the reason BidFuel exists

Pricing

One price per company. Every seat included.

Built for contractors, not per-seat SaaS math. One license covers your whole estimating team. If BidFuel doesn’t pay for itself on the first bid you win, it isn’t doing its job.

  • Unlimited solicitations & bids
  • AI intake, compliance & forms tracking
  • Price book from your own job history
  • Cost build-up, proposal review & submission grading
  • Pipeline, deadlines & win-rate analytics
  • Cloud sync across your crew

Company license

$249/ month

Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.

Start free — no card

14-day trial. Bring one real RFP and see it work.

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