Bid Leveller
Paste your sub bids in any format. Get a normalized comparison table, scope gaps, and a clear picture of what each bidder included — and what they quietly left out.
- Good at:
- Normalizing inconsistent sub bid formats and surfacing scope gaps before award.
- Not for:
- Calculating total project cost or validating unit prices.
Extracts only what bidders provided. Does not estimate missing scope or fill in gaps.
Normalized bid comparison will appear here once the tool runs.
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Questions people ask first
What does the Bid Leveller do?
Takes sub bids in any format — pasted email body, copied spreadsheet rows, PDF text — and produces a normalised comparison table. Each bidder's scope, exclusions, allowances, and price laid out so you can see what each one actually included and what they quietly left out.
Does it calculate the total project cost?
No. The Leveller compares scope, not budget. It tells you that Sub A excluded fire-stopping and Sub B included it; it doesn't roll a project total because that depends on the rest of your bid you didn't paste in.
What's the most useful output?
The scope-gap section. The “Sub C is $4K cheaper than Sub B” line is obvious; the “Sub C excluded permit fees and rough-in coordination” line is what saves you from awarding the wrong bid and eating the gap.
What about unit prices?
Out of scope. The Leveller compares scope and totals, not unit-price reasonability. For unit-price validation (“is $4.20/SF for X reasonable for our market”), you need historical bid data the Leveller doesn't have.
What format should I paste the bids in?
Whatever you have. Pasted email body, copied table, exported PDF text — the Leveller is built to handle inconsistent formats because that's what real sub bids arrive in. If a bidder sent a one-page proposal and another sent a 12-tab spreadsheet, paste both. Cleanup is what the tool does.