ProContractorMX Modules
Invitation to Bid
Using the Invitation to Bid feature, you can easily manage subcontractor bids and supplier quotes. You can manage their information in a central location, and then efficiently issue invitations to bid and request updated pricing.
Once your sub and supplier bids are selected, Maxwell SystemsProContractorMXinstantly creates a new estimate based on your selection. It’s a seamless process that saves you time and improves accuracy. Because contractors typically receive sub bids and supplier quotes at the last minute on bid day, ProContractorMX Invitation to Bid helps to efficiently manage bids and quotes and quickly apply details to appropriate estimate items.
Using Invitation to Bid, you can:
- Easily add subcontractors and suppliers and create a list of estimating vendors, which can be reused on jobs to save time on every bid.
- Keep your list of vendors, your pre-determined list of bidders, and all their contact information in a central location. This helps to easily send printed invitations and increase the speed of collecting and assembling sub bids on bid day.
- Efficiently manage invitations to bid that include multiple collections of packaged items (that is, cost items and assemblies) and request bidders provide updated pricing. This helps to quickly process invitations by creating one report containing several items for one supplier or sub. Plus, filtering tools allow you to tag specific bid items as self-performed, non-bid, etc.
- Track status (whether pending, received, disallow, etc.) of incoming bids with helpful alerts that warn you if type or size of subcontractor does not meet requirements as identified in the invitation to bid.
- Select the subcontractors and suppliers for a job and then ProContractorMX instantly creates a new estimate based on your selection. This allows you to quickly and easily insert the missing information on bid day for a complete and detailed estimate. You’ll save time and avoid mistakes common with data re-entry.
- Create alternates and change orders from the winning subcontractor and vendor bids.
- Gain insight into history of jobs with valuable reports of subcontractor and supplier bids.
* ProContractorMX Invitation to Bid is included with ProContractorMX Bid Day and Proposals module.

