Guides & insights on construction bidding, follow-ups, and managing your pipeline as a sub-contractor
Bid Hit Ratio for Subcontractors: What's Good, What's Not, and How to Fix Yours Quick question: out of the last ten jobs you bid, how many did you actually win? If you just guessed, you're in good company. Your bid hit ratio — the number of bids it takes you ...
How to Organize Bid Invites From Multiple GCs (Without Losing Your Mind) Picture your Monday morning. One GC sent you an invite through BuildingConnected. Another emailed a link to a plan room. A third texted your cell on Saturday — “you guys want to look at this one?” — with ...
How to Track Bid Invites as a Subcontractor (So Nothing Slips Through the Cracks) Bid invites never show up in one tidy place. They land in your inbox, your voicemail, three different GC portals, and sometimes a text from a PM you met once at a walkthrough. And you're juggling ...
How to Write a Bid Follow-Up Email to a General Contractor (Copy-Paste Templates) You put six hours into that takeoff. You double-checked the scope, hit the deadline, sent your number — and then, nothing. No award, no rejection, just silence. If that sounds familiar, this one's for you. A good ...
48% of contractors never follow up after submitting a bid. Here's the data, and a simple system to fix it.
