Define the rules
Translate management's real pursuit criteria into weighted commercial and operational factors.
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System 02 · Preconstruction
Bid Qualification System
Help estimators focus on projects worth pursuing.
Scores incoming projects against the commercial and operational factors that determine whether a bid is worth the time.
The operational problem
Why this system exists.
A full bid board can create the illusion of a strong pipeline while estimators are pricing jobs the company should never pursue. Poor geography, weak GC history, unrealistic deadlines, bad scope fit, capacity constraints, and historically low win rates consume estimating hours that should be concentrated on winnable, profitable work.
What you are buying
A functioning operating system—not a prompt, chatbot, or generic workflow.
The system applies the contractor's actual go/no-go criteria to every captured opportunity. It combines project facts with internal performance history, creates an explainable priority score, and gives management a ranked bid queue. The recommendation never replaces commercial judgment; it makes the facts behind that judgment visible before estimator time is committed.
BUILT FOR
Estimating teams that are busy but still spend too much time on low-probability, low-margin, or operationally poor-fit work.
How it works
From raw project information to controlled action.
The exact integration changes by contractor. The operating sequence and accountability do not.
Score the opportunity
Evaluate geography, project type, contract size, GC, schedule, capacity, scope fit, and history.
Explain the recommendation
Show why the job ranked high, low, or requires management review instead of producing a black-box score.
Improve from results
Feed wins, losses, margins, and project outcomes back into the qualification model.
System inputs
What it monitors and reads.
Bid intake recordsCustomer historyWin/loss historyMargin historyBacklog and capacityManagement pursuit rules
Operational deliverables
What your team actually receives.
Priority scoreGo/no-go recommendationRisk flagsRanked estimator queueManagement review listQualification rationale
Business outcome
Less estimator time wasted on bad bids and more attention placed on profitable opportunities.
Performance is measured
This implementation is managed against operating indicators—not whether the automation merely runs.
- Estimator hours per win
- Bid hit rate
- Qualified pipeline value
- Margin by pursuit score
Commercial structure
$10,000 implementation. $1,500/mo ongoing management.
Implementation covers discovery, system architecture, configuration, integration, testing, controlled rollout, and team adoption for the agreed scope. Ongoing management covers monitoring, exception handling, optimization, reporting, and operational support.
$10,000 operations assessment
Find the most expensive gap first.
We analyze your current operation, quantify revenue leakage and administrative drag, then build a custom implementation roadmap. The assessment fee may be credited toward a larger implementation.
See the assessmentNo generic AI pitch. We start with the costliest operational problem.