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Raw totals lie. Level the bids before you compare them.

Four bids come back and the totals are four different scopes: one excluded roofing, one no-bid the windows, one carries an allowance nobody noticed. The cheapest-looking number is often just the emptiest one. This workbook is the tool architects and construction managers actually use on bid day — a bid tabulation that compares 4–6 bids line-by-line across your scope items, plugs the gaps with your own carrying values so every bidder finally carries the same scope, flags every no-bid line in red, and ranks the leveled totals. Built by a licensed architect who has leveled real bids for a living.

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Excel & Google Sheets · pure formulas, no macrosPlug-value leveling engine + red scope-gap flags + exclusions logSample bid package included · yours in minutes
Bid Tab / Bid Leveling Sheet cover

The low bid and the cheapest bid
are not always the same company.

The actual workbook

This is the dashboard itself — not a mockup.

As it opens in Excel or Google Sheets: the apparent-low and leveled-spread heroes, the verdict strip (including whether leveling changes the low bidder), the KPI ribbon, the per-bidder leveling table with plug exposure and ranking, and the line items where the bids disagree most.

Bid Tab / Bid Leveling Sheet — the actual workbook, full size
Shown with the included sample bid package — four bidders on a residential addition, where the raw low bidder and the leveled low bidder are two different companies. Overwrite the green cells with your own bids and everything recalculates instantly.
How it works

Tabulate. Plug the gaps. Read the leveled order.

One working tab does the math; the log keeps the paper trail; the dashboard calls it.

01

List the scope once

Your scope items down the left — one line per trade or work package — with an optional estimate and a plug value per line. Thirty lines, six bidder columns.

02

Enter bids straight off the forms

One column per bidder. Leave a cell empty where they excluded it, no-bid it, or called it "by others" — it flags red as a scope gap automatically.

03

Let the leveling engine run

Every gap is carried at your plug value, so LEVELED TOTAL = raw total + plugs — and every bidder finally carries the same scope. Apples to apples.

04

See where the bids disagree

Auto low, high, and spread per line — the per-line low bid reads green — plus the three widest spreads called out on the dashboard. Those lines are worth a phone call.

05

Keep the paper trail

Every exclusion, allowance, clarification, and substitution goes on the log with how you carried it. Unreconciled notes flag red and roll up to the dashboard.

06

Read the verdicts

Apparent low leveled bid, the true spread, and the one that matters: does leveling change the low bidder? In the sample package, it does.

What's inside

Four tabs. Zero macros. Every number a live formula.

  • DashboardApparent-low and leveled-spread heroes, three verdicts, a 6-KPI ribbon, the per-bidder leveling table (raw, plugs, leveled, gaps, rank, vs-low), and the widest line-item spreads.
  • Bid Tab30 scope lines × 6 bidder columns with estimate and plug value per line, auto low/high/spread/bid-count per line, red scope-gap flags, and the full totals block: raw, plugs, leveled, gaps, rank, vs-low.
  • Exclusions & Clarifications LogThe defensibility layer: who excluded what, what they said, how you carried it, and whether it's reconciled — with unreconciled notes rolling up to the dashboard.
  • How to UseQuick start, how plug values and leveling work, what a wide spread usually means, and the unlock password.
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$19 · one-time

Bid Tab / Bid Leveling Sheet

One-time $19 for the bid-day tool — pairs with the Bid & Estimate Tracker on the bidding side and the Construction Proposal + Scope of Work when you're the one writing the scope.

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Instant download · Personal/single-business license · A bid-comparison and documentation tool — not procurement, contracting, or legal advice. Award decisions, and verifying each bidder's actual scope, are yours.
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