For architects

Tender it, level the bids, and keep the record straight.

When you run bidding on an owner’s behalf and administer the contract that follows, you’re doing it in email and Excel. Tenvia Build gives that work a system, without touching how your practice bills its own time.

Where we fit

The construction administration half, not your practice management.

Worth being clear before you read further, because plenty of software in this category isn’t.

What Tenvia Build does

  • Issues tender packages on locked scope lines
  • Levels bids side by side and flags the low bid
  • Prequalifies bidders on insurance, WSIB, and licences
  • Holds RFIs and every signed change on the project record
  • Gives the owner a portal instead of a trail of PDFs

What it isn’t

  • Firm-wide timesheets and fee accounting. Monograph and BQE do that well
  • Drawing sets, sheet versioning, or a submittal register
  • Design or modelling of any kind

If you already run Monograph or BQE, keep it. This sits beside it, on the projects where you’re tendering and administering. All product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Tendering

Bid leveling that isn’t an enterprise seat.

The reference product for tender invitations and bidder prequalification is BuildingConnected with TradeTapp, which is quote-only, reported from around $3,600 to well past $22,000 a year, and repriced upward in 2025. For a firm tendering a handful of packages for an owner, nothing existed at a sane price.

Same rows, every bidder

  • Scope lines locked, so the comparison is real
  • A private link per bidder, no account to create
  • Questions and responses kept on the package

Level and recommend

  • Line-by-line comparison with the low bid flagged
  • Award writes an e-signed purchase order
  • The comparison stays on the record for the owner’s file

Vetted before they price

  • Insurance, WSIB clearances, and licences with expiry dates
  • Accept or reject each document submitted
  • Reminders sent to the bidder as expiry approaches
The record

The paper trail a dispute asks for.

Under Ontario’s adjudication regime, what a claim turns on is usually the dated record of instructions and changes, not anyone’s recollection of the site meeting. More on the 2026 Construction Act changes →

  • Every change order signed and dated on its own, never batched
  • Approvals add to the contract value; credits subtract
  • RFIs tracked against the project
  • Audit history on projects, clients, and vendors
  • The owner sees contract, changes, and invoices in a portal
  • Full export whenever you want it. The data is yours
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RFQ bid leveling: invited vendors with statuses and quotes, and a side-by-side bid comparison on identical scope lines.

Tender your next project in it.

Book a demo and we’ll tender one of your packages through it.