Electrical Bid Desk / Bid/no-bid
Bid/No-Bid Scoring for Electrical Contractors, With Every Input Sourced
Passing on the right invitation loses you a job. Chasing the wrong one burns estimator time you do not have. The Bid/No-Bid Score puts your own margin history, crew availability, schedule, gear lead time and the GC's payment record on one page, with the source of every input.
Bid/no-bid
How the Bid/No-Bid Score works
- What it is
- One page per invitation: your margin history on similar work, crew availability, schedule, gear lead time and the GC's payment record.
- Result
- Your chief estimator decides bid or pass from one page of sourced inputs instead of from memory.
- Goes in
- Your past bids and results, your crew calendar, the bid schedule and the gear lead times from the leveling sheet.
- Comes out
- One page per invitation with each input, its source and how it moved the score.
- How it is checked
- Passes only if every input names its source; an input without one is removed, never guessed.
- Rulebook check 3
- Every bid/no-bid input names where it came from.
- Decided by
- Your chief estimator. The score informs the call and never makes it.
What it does not do. It never makes the call. Your chief estimator decides, and the score records what the decision was based on.
$7,500 setup, then $1,500 a month.
Sample run on one bid you already sent: $1,500. The sample run output is yours to keep and stands on its own. If you start setup within 30 days, the sample run price comes off setup in full.
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