Frequently asked questions
Questions people actually ask
- What does Biddy measure?
- Linear feet, square footage, counts and assemblies for your trade, identified from the PDF plan set.
- How are bids priced?
- Against your own historical costs, not a generic cost book.
- What does the bid include?
- An itemised scope letter with inclusions and exclusions.
- Does it catch problems in the drawings?
- It flags drawing conflicts and missing details that tend to become change orders, and cross-references the specification sections that change the price.
- Does the estimator still have a job?
- Yes. The estimator reviews and adjusts rather than measures by hand.
- What does it cost?
- 599 dollars a month for 15 takeoffs, 1,290 dollars for 40, and 2,900 dollars a month for unlimited takeoffs with a historical cost database and multi-estimator seats.
- Which trades is it for?
- Specialty subcontractors including drywall, electrical, mechanical, concrete, glazing and framing.
- Why should I trust the unbid work calculator?
- It is arithmetic on your own figures, worked out in your browser. The value of unbid work assumes your current hit rate would hold, which it may not. It does not read drawings; the free first takeoff does that on a real plan set.
How much work goes unbid because takeoffs take too long?
Put in your bid invitations, how many you estimate, how long a takeoff takes by hand, your estimator's cost, your hit rate and contract size. See the days spent measuring and the work you never bid. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
Open the free toolIt runs in your browser. Biddy never sees your inputs.