Analyze the subcontractor bids you receive — scored, evidenced, and flagged

Bid Reasoner reads each bidder's PDF, extracts and normalizes the line items, and maps them to your scope of work. It then scores the bid across six dimensions — price, scope, schedule, compliance, performance, and risk — and runs four deterministic pricing rules over the numbers. Every AI finding that's saved names the bidder, the document and the page.

Look past the bottom-line number at scope coverage, schedule, compliance, the bidder's performance history, and pricing risk. The common traps are unbalanced unit prices (line items priced at or below $1.00), individual items that sit far off the median for that pay item (2× or more, or 0.5× or less), a total 20% or more above or below the median bid total, and mobilization front-loaded to 10% or more of the total. Bid Reasoner scores all six dimensions and flags each of those traps automatically; the two median checks need at least three bids pricing that item, or three bid totals.

Lowest bid picks the smallest number that meets the basic requirements; best value weighs price against scope completeness, schedule, compliance, performance, and risk together. Bid Reasoner supports both as decision modes — Lowest Responsible Bid and Best Value — alongside Lowest Risk, Schedule Priority, Scope Completeness, Budget-Constrained, and Custom Weighting. The recommendation comes with a confidence score so you can see how close the call is.

Bid Reasoner runs four deterministic pricing rules over every bid that has been read. It flags unbalanced unit prices at or below $1.00, line items at 2× or more, or 0.5× or less, of the median for that pay item (3+ bids), total bids 20% or more above or below the median bid total (3+ bids), and mobilization at 10% or more of the total (high at 15% or more). A fifth check lists scope-of-work items whose pay-item code doesn't appear in a bid. These are fixed numeric thresholds, not a black-box score, so you can see exactly why a bid was flagged.

Yes. Bid Reasoner runs a scope-coverage gap analysis on each bidder: it surfaces items in your scope of work that the bidder didn't quote, and items the bidder priced that weren't in your scope. That two-way comparison is what catches the low number that's low because it left work out.

Yes. Bid Reasoner works in any US state through peer-median normalization — it levels each bid against the other bids in your package, so no government pay-item data is required.

Bid Reasoner is built for the typical package of 5 to 15 subcontractor bids, where peer-median normalization and outlier detection have enough bidders to work against. The two peer checks need at least three bids: a unit price is compared with its pay item's median once three bids price it, and a total with the median total once three bids have one. Smaller fields are still analyzed and scored, and the $1.00, mobilization and scope-of-work checks need no other bids.

Yes. Every saved AI finding cites the source document and page, the four pricing rules apply fixed numeric thresholds anyone can check, and when your pick differs from the recommendation, the award page marks it as an override and asks for a category and a reason — both go into the award memo. An append-only award audit trail records who selected the winner, edited the decision, approved or revoked it, and when, and the reasoning carries through into the seven decision documents Bid Reasoner generates in Word, including an Evidence Report that lists the page behind each saved AI finding, so the answer to 'why this bidder?' is on the record.