All your bid invites in one place
Downtobid's Bid Board connects with your inbox, finds your bid invites, and intelligently sorts the emails into opportunities on a simple to use dashboard.
Why online bid boards are the future
Most subcontractors are wasting hours each week on repetitive, administrative tasks. By adopting an automated online bid board, jobs won`t slip through the cracks and your team will be able to dedicate more time for building relationships with your General Contractors.
How It Works
Connect your inbox(es)
Setup is dead simple. Connect your Gmail, Outlook, or other email provider and we`ll begin to organize your bids, eliminate duplicates, and sort all your bids into a company wide folder.
Qualify your opportunities
After syncing, create rules to qualify or disqualify projects by General Contractor or location.
Start tracking
Your bid board should now show you only bid invites that are relevant to your business, it`s that easy.
The essentials to stay on top of your bidding
Track every due date without fail, prevent multiple estimators from bidding the same job, and collaborate on jobs with your teammates.
Bid tracking and coordination
Automatically track bid due dates, addendas, and RFIs without any manual data entry.
Pre-screen your bids
General Contractors that you never want to receive bid invites from again.
Bid calendar
Organize your bids in a calendar that updates itself. Works with your Google, Office 365, or iCloud Calendar so you be on top of your bidding from anywhere.
Collborate internally
Tag your team to discuss project specifics, estimating progress, or leave reminders.
All your communication seamlessly tracked
Contact management and history
Company and contact information are saved when right when you receive a bid invite. Stop digging your inbox looking for email addresses and phone numbers, when you can easily search through your own database.
Vendor management
Send quote requests to all of your vendors. Each response is organized by project automatically, so you`ll no longer have to chase down late quotes.
GC management
Send and track submittals, RFIs, Clarifications all from your Downtobid's Bid Board. Never lose track of discussion or previous conversations again.
Tags
Organize your Downtobid's Bid Board by creating custom tags to flag your core customers.
Actually understand your company’s performance with analytics
Out of the box reports
Measure your company’s win ratio and team performance with company wide dashboards
Custom fields
Create custom fields, rules, and enhance your board to fit your specific needs.
Lost reasons
Diligently track each reason for lost bids, so your team can make improvements to your bidding strategy
What the Early Adopters are Saying About Downtobid
"We have used Downtobid for our ITBs and so far our experience has been very positive. It has saved me time on the initial page turn and I really like the number of responses we're starting to see from our subcontractors!"
"The first time our company was able to travel outside Atlanta! Bidding in a new market and wasn't getting any hits on Drywall. Requested a boost and with 5 days I had 2 committed bidders and 1 submission. Using them on my next project."
""I love, the personalization of it. You get it more directed towards the contractors that we need. You, make it a little more personal than putting it on Blue Book or Planhub or anything like that. You let us communicate with the subcontractors, so we can narrow it down from what you've already narrowed it down from. We get more, more specific, more detailed quotes, more the correct quotes that we're looking for from you guys as opposed to maybe other places.""
What the Early Adopters are Saying About Downtobid
"We have used Downtobid for our ITBs and so far our experience has been very positive. It has saved me time on the initial page turn and I really like the number of responses we're starting to see from our subcontractors!"
"The first time our company was able to travel outside Atlanta! Bidding in a new market and wasn't getting any hits on Drywall. Requested a boost and with 5 days I had 2 committed bidders and 1 submission. Using them on my next project."
""I love, the personalization of it. You get it more directed towards the contractors that we need. You, make it a little more personal than putting it on Blue Book or Planhub or anything like that. You let us communicate with the subcontractors, so we can narrow it down from what you've already narrowed it down from. We get more, more specific, more detailed quotes, more the correct quotes that we're looking for from you guys as opposed to maybe other places.""
Data and security
Downtobid's Bid Board is meant to be the single source of truth for all your estimating and project information. This means quotes, proposals, plans, and more. We've taken the time to ensure all data stored in Downtobid's Bid Board is encrypted with TLS, backed up periodically, so you can feel comfortable tracking all your bid related information in the application.