Construction bid management after the ITB.

The category people search, the job we actually do

Estimating and bidding — takeoff, the number, tender review, bid leveling, scope gaps, and the approval before submission — is construction estimating and bidding software. This page is bid management after the ITB. The two URLs are deliberately different searches. Use the hub when you want the category. Stay here when you want the process.

“Construction bid management software” usually means one of two things: a place general contractors post invitations, or a place subcontractors track those invitations. That is the plan-room / bid-board job. It is a real job. It is not this page.

ArosBid starts after the invite is already yours. BuildingConnected, PlanHub, Dodge, ConstructConnect, SmartBid, and Procore are invite or document sources. They connect. They are not rivals. The invitation still has to become a read set, a bid/no-bid, vendor coverage, a leveled number, and a proposal that matches what you priced. That is bid management on a trade desk. It happens after the ITB, not as the ITB.

The audience page that says this out loud — trade contractor, not a bid board — is trade contractor bid software. Keep this URL for the process name. Keep that URL for the who. They link each other so a crawler can tell them apart.

After the ITB, in order

Intake recognizes the ITB and opens the pursuit. The package is no longer an email. It has an identity that will survive award or loss, so the next bid/no-bid has history to use. Setup drafts the close calendar from the documents, not from the subject line.

Document review cites dates, conflicts, liquidated damages, and alternates to page. A finding you cannot open is a rumor. The category page is AI tender review. Eligibility clauses that live in the front end are why a takeoff can be wasted. The inbound log when the set changes later is missed addenda — a construction bid addendum log, not a tax “addenda” file.

Bid/no-bid is scored against your own GC history, bonding, and the set that was just read. It is not a hallway guess and it is not a GC scoring subcontractors on a pursuit PDF. That desk is bid / no-bid. The estimator still makes the call.

Takeoff and estimate are in the product. ArosBid replaces Trimble AutoBid. STACK, McCormick, and FastEST are other takeoff tools in the market. This process page will not open a vs-STACK argument. The estimating hubs are MEP estimating software and takeoff and estimating software. The named AutoBid page is vs AutoBid.

Vendor RFQs go out as packages built from the reviewed set, with follow-ups, after a recorded approval during training. That desk is construction vendor RFQ. Quotes come back to vendor quote leveling: stated totals reconciled to itemized sums, exclusions treated as scope, integer-cent code. The category hub — whose sheet, GC versus trade, money is code — is AI bid leveling. Do not read that hub as a second copy of the desk page. It is the SERP split.

Budget lands in Excel. The proposal is assembled from decisions you actually made. Readiness checks bonding, addenda, alternates, and gates before you submit. You press send. Walk the ten stages on the platform page. Compare the same process against the inbox and the last-hour spreadsheet on Compare.

What the status quo looks like on this desk

The invitation sits in Outlook. The set sits on a share drive. Bid/no-bid happens in a doorway before anyone has opened Division 00. Takeoff, if it is not in AutoBid or another estimating seat, is a mark-up that never quite becomes the workbook. Vendor RFQs are last Thursday’s zip. Leveling is a tab built in the last hour. The proposal is a previous job with the name changed. Addenda are “in the folder.” Bonding is remembered. That is bid management without a system. It is also how a correct quantity becomes a bid you cannot defend at buyout.

ArosBid does not claim that every office lives that cartoon. It claims that those seams are where the hours go, and that they belong in one isolated instance with the estimator still on the gate. The role page is for estimators.

Not a plan room. Not GC-to-sub.

A plan room’s useful output is a current set and a clock. Useful. Not the bid. GC-to-sub bid management is a coverage problem: which trades have priced, who is light, who is late. That is the general contractor’s sheet. ArosBid levels the quotes a trade contractor collects — equipment, gear, specialties — against one scope. If you came here from a GC query, this is the wrong product. We will not stretch the copy to win that click.

Industry pages describe the documents each trade actually reads: mechanical, electrical, plumbing, roofing, steel. MEP takeoff, with an explicit STACK refusal, is MEP takeoff software. Brand definition, including Arobid Vietnam and AROS OS, is what is ArosBid.

Honest scope, in a table you can scan

That table is scope, not a defect list for PlanHub or BuildingConnected. Those products do the job they are sold for. This page is the job after that job.

What this is not, and what we will not invent

Not a plan room. Not GC-to-sub bid shopping. Not “best AI estimating software.” ArosBid includes takeoff and estimate and replaces Trimble AutoBid. The rest of the product is the bid process after those quantities exist. Money is integer-cent code. Isolated instance. Microsoft Entra ID. During training, nothing leaves without a recorded human approval. L5 Autonomous is next. The gate does not move.

No customer names. No win rates. No savings percentages. No AutoBid crash list. No hidden-fee story. No fake Offer.price. Named pursuits, including Riverside Office Tower, are fictional demo data and labeled as such. Book a live demo if you want the process on a set you recognize. The instance is branded as your company before the call starts.

Trimble Estimation MEP is the current Trimble MEP estimating product. If that is the name in your search, the estimating hub is still MEP estimating software. This page stays on bid management after the ITB — the process name, not the estimating aisle.