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TrunkBid · Bid Analysis Agent

Scope gaps don’t have to be inevitable.

TrunkBid reads every subcontractor bid against your scope and maps each line item to your requirements, surfacing the gaps, exclusions, and silences hiding across bidders so you can confidently award subcontracts despite the time crunch and avoid surprises and disputes later on.

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The Data

Builders using TrunkBid reduce risk during subcontractor buyout and beyond.

4-8 hours

Time it takes to thoroughly analyze all received bids per trade package

40+

Standard number of trade packages per project

25.7%

Percent of disputes connected back to scope gaps

80%

Time reduction in estimator and/or PM bid analysis.

Why TrunkBid

Addressing Real-World Challenges Faced by Project Teams

Challenge

Carefully reviewing 3-5 subcontractor bids per trade package with inconsistent templates takes 4-8 hours of time. Across 40+ trade packages, estimators spend weeks on tedious comparison and manual data entry work under strict deadlines.

Solution

TrunkBid handles the first pass analysis of all received bids against the scope of work requirements for every trade package, freeing up estimators and PMs from manual comparison and data entry to focus on faster, informed award decisions and handle more jobs in the same amount of time.

Challenge

Bid analysis and leveling quality and process vary from project to project with the experience of the estimators and PMs doing the work. Your team is lean but bid deadlines are tight and you’re being asked to increase output to keep up with market demand and win more work.

Solution

TrunkBid gives all of your estimating teammates a level playing field to start from, quickly elevates younger estimators by flagging the most critical scope gaps, and allows you to be confident about the quality of the analysis and leveling work done on a much shorter turnaround. You can assign more trade packages and/or projects to each staff member because the upfront grind has been handled.

Challenge

Not only do scope gaps threaten project and portfolio profitability, but much of the knowledge on how to interpret a bid well lives in the head of senior estimators moving toward retirement. Winning more work to scale your business depends on knowledge transfer and moving faster without sacrificing quality.

Solution

TrunkBid helps your business standardize a process that can reduce the risk of scope gaps and your best estimators retiring and taking all their expertise with them. With TrunkBid, you can analyze and level more bids more quickly with even more rigor and gain additional capacity to bid on more projects without increasing headcount.

How It Works

AI-Augmented Bid Analysis

  • 01

    Upload

    Upload subcontractor bids and any scope of work documents.

  • 02

    Extract

    TrunkBid pulls the relevant data from every bid and requirements from the scope document.

  • 03

    Analyze

    Each line item is mapped to your requirements: what each sub covers, excludes, prices as an alternate, or is silent on entirely.

  • 04

    Surface

    Gaps, risks, and follow-up questions for each bidder are flagged.

  • 05

    Export

    A structured Excel sheet is downloadable to help you complete the leveling process and make buyout decisions.

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