Bidgauge

Specialty trade estimators can spend hours on takeoffs for invitations that do not fit capacity, geography, scope or customer strategy. A consistent pursuit review can help, but historical wins and losses are selective: teams may not record every invitation, customer awards are partly unobserved, and peer bid counts are often incomplete.

Bidgauge ingests an authorized invitation and proposes project, customer, scope, location, due date, qualification and estimator-effort fields with citations. It compares them with the contractor's approved pursuit policy and its own versioned outcome ledger. The result is a review packet showing matched criteria, missing evidence and scenario ranges, not a probability of winning.

Customer history describes observed interactions and awards only. It does not become a reputation score, intent judgment or claim of favoritism. Any cross-customer aggregate must be permissioned, sufficiently aggregated and designed to avoid exposing competitors, bid strategy or commercially sensitive information.

An estimator or preconstruction leader records the pursue, decline or request-more-information decision and rationale. The product never submits a bid, commits price or capacity, or attributes an eventual award to its recommendation.

Chief estimator, preconstruction leader or owner at a specialty trade contractor handling more invitations than the team can estimate