PRECONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE · BY VELLARIN
From the invitation to bid to the proposal you send.
BidStream covers all seven stages of a bid: finding the solicitation, loading the plan set, flagging scope at risk, taking off quantities, estimating, proposing and coordinating subcontractors. AI proposes at every step; the estimator approves.
AI-assisted. Estimator-controlled. Traceable to the plan.
THE FULL WALKTHROUGH
The bid starts long before the takeoff.
The seven stages every bid moves through, and where BidStream sits in each one.
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STAGE BY STAGE
What BidStream does today — no roadmap promises.
1 · Opportunity
- Bid radar on SAM.gov’s official public API — no scraping
- Every new notice is tagged by trade and scored against your company profile
- Runs daily on its own, or on demand whenever you want to search
- What you have already seen is never reprocessed: the list grows, the noise does not
2 · Project intake
- Several PDFs at once, with a type and a label per file
- The set splits in batches and resumes — 90+ sheet sets without losing progress
- Title block reading: sheet number and title for every page
- Drawings, specs and other documents are handled differently — a spec carries no scale
3 · Scope and risk
- Reads notes, cover sheet and specs BEFORE any takeoff
- Proposes what the bid must protect against: exclusions, allowances, RFIs and scope to sub out
- Each finding routes to its exit — the exclusion to the proposal, the sub to the subcontracts tab
- Uncertain scope is flagged for human review
4 · Takeoff
- Vector counting: finds every exact copy of a repeated symbol
- Vision pass for scanned drawings
- Length, area, volume and angle on a scale confirmed per sheet
- 3D view: markups rise in height above the plan
- Review card: approve or reject every proposed detection
5 · Estimate
- Approved quantities feed the line-item register
- Adjust a measurement and the line item recalculates itself
- Your own company pricebook, with CSI-division profiles
- Estimated cost shown before every AI run — no surprises
6 · Proposal
- Proposal generated from the estimate, carrying your branding
- Shareable link with sell prices, without exposing costs or margins
- Export to PDF with real vector annotations — opens in any reader
- Exclusions caught back in the scope stage land in the document on their own
7 · Post-bid
- Trade packages and quote requests out to subcontractors
- Link-based portal: the sub quotes or declines without creating an account
- Schedule: AI proposes phases with duration and overlap; you edit all of it
- Revisions: new sheets link to their previous version and compare side by side
Across the project
- A copilot that answers from your project data — never with invented numbers
- It only proposes actions: it shows confirm or cancel, and never writes on its own
- AI spend caps per organization, with usage in plain view
- Real-time collaboration, and every organization isolated at the database level
- All in the browser: nothing to install
For general contractors and estimating teams across architectural, structural, civil, MEP, and specialty scopes.
Designed for these scopes — tell us about yours on the first call.
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