Bid out a job without a $22,000 tool.
Issue trade packages on locked scope lines, take bids through a private link, compare them row by row, and turn the award into an e-signed purchase order and a committed cost on the job.
Six packages, eighteen bids, one spreadsheet.
Scope goes out as an email attachment, so every trade prices something slightly different. The comparison gets rebuilt by hand each time a revised number arrives. The awarded figure is retyped into a purchase order, and again into whatever tracks committed cost. Every step is a place for a number to drift, and none of it is on the project record when someone asks in four months why that trade cost what it did.
Four steps, one record.
Build the package
Pull scope lines from the estimate or write them fresh. The lines are locked, so every bidder prices identical rows.
Invite the trades
Each vendor gets a private link. No account, no password, and no seat for you to pay for. Questions stay on the package.
Level the bids
Side by side, line by line, with the low bid flagged. Gaps are visible because the rows are the same rows.
Award it
The award writes an e-signed purchase order at the awarded number, and the committed cost lands in the job forecast.
The leveling screen.
Invited vendors with their statuses and quotes on the left, and the bids themselves compared line by line on identical scope. The low bid is flagged, and the award carries straight through to a purchase order.
What this costs everywhere else.
Bid management and subcontractor prequalification is the most expensive thing on this list to buy separately, and the hardest to buy at all below enterprise scale.
| Doing it this way | What you get | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| BuildingConnected with TradeTapp | The reference product, and a very large subcontractor network | $3,600–$22,000 / yr |
| Procore Bid Management | Enterprise depth, sold as a module on top of Procore | quote only |
| Email and a spreadsheet | Whatever you remember to check | n/a |
| Tenvia Build, Scale plan | Bidding and compliance, plus the whole system around it | $4,800 / yr |
Bid management, the vendor network and compliance documents ship on the Scale plan at $395 CAD per company per month. Third-party figures are published or reviewer-reported as of September 2026 and change without notice, so confirm with each vendor. All product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
What this is not.
Not this
- A public plan room or an open bid board. You invite the trades you choose.
- A takeoff or quantity surveying tool.
- A national subcontractor directory the size of BuildingConnected’s.
But this, yes
- Unlimited packages and unlimited bidders, with no per-seat fee for vendors
- Vendors keep one profile and reuse it with every contractor they bid to
- Award to purchase order to committed cost, without re-keying a number
- Vendor scorecards: response rate, ratings, and lifetime value
Weighing it directly? Tenvia Build vs BuildingConnected and vs Procore. If you tender on someone else’s behalf, the same tools are written up for architects and engineers.
Put a real package out through it.
Book a demo and we’ll run one of your trade packages through it.