Buy Bids is a reinvention of the outdated traditional way of seeking freelance quantity takeoff and construction estimating services. Buy Bids divides blueprints up into trade groups and performs a quantity takeoff. We then provide an editable spreadsheet with the quantity takeoff data per trade, where the contractor adds their costs and sends them off for bid in hopes of an awarded contract of project.
Explainer Video: https://youtu.be/Zk3Oi3l2nv4?feature=shared
At Buy Bids (buybids.org) we do the quantity Takeoff for each trade and plug those quantities into our editable spreadsheet. We then create a listing for the construction project and sell the service much like a product. When a contractor chooses a specific project, he goes through checkout. Once purchase is completed the contractor will get an email where the project information and documents id downloadable immediately. Along with the
editable spreadsheet we provide the
Plan Markups & a
Generic Bid Proposal with the information the contractor needs to have in his bid for the project. This information is all based on the plan specs and plan survey during quantity takeoff.
The best part of this is, we have done all the heavy lifting for the project and the contractor only needs to add their costs for labor and production rate and their material cost per quantity takeoff in spreadsheet. This will give them their Bid Proposal Price for the construction Project. The spreadsheet and Bid Proposal contain all the General Contractors contact information they need to send their Bids to.
Our Bid Buy Way will streamline contractors bidding process by saving them time and money and allowing them to pass the saving onto their clients or their bank. Contractors are able to bid up to 5 construction projects in the amount of time it would take them to do the whole process themselves on one construction project. Contractors also save money the Buy Bid way because the cost of 5 Buy Bid estimates is lower than paying a freelancer for 1 construction estimate.
Our business plan is to provide a streamlined consistency to the construction community which will eventually create a trust. This model makes money in sales quantity per project not hourly per project. Making it cheap quick and fun giving us multiple sales on one project listing.
Included in this New Start up is Pinch Estimating where we do things the traditional way.