Roles

Preconstruction

a construction professional who manages the early stages of a project, evaluating bid opportunities and preparing plans, budgets and bids

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Your job, minus the screen work

You decide which projects to chase, control the bid documents, and hand a won job to operations with a budget and setup that match the estimate. The decisions are strategy. The portals, downloads and logs are not.

Where your week goes

  • Reading invitation emails and deciding which ones are worth opening
  • Logging into plan room after plan room to download sets
  • Renaming files and counting sheets against the index
  • Checking every portal for addenda, twice a day and more on bid week
  • Rebuilding the go/no-go case from memory in the weekly meeting
  • Sending accounting a setup form after award and waiting for questions

What an agent takes over

Bid summaries

Reads each invitation and lays out size, owner, dates and hard stops.

Break-even math

Compares what a bid costs to prepare against your win history.

Plan downloads

Pulls complete sets from each portal, checks them against the index and files them.

Addenda watch

Checks portals on a schedule and logs each addendum the day it posts.

Bid-day checklist

Builds the acknowledgement list so every addendum is covered.

Clean handoff

Prepares the setup checklist from the estimate and contract.

What stays with you

  • Pursuit strategy and every go or no-go call

  • Reading contract risk and shaping the proposal

  • Bid-day judgment on late numbers and scope gaps

  • Owner relationships and the handoff meeting

Apps you already juggle

Procore or Autodesk Construction Cloud, bid portals, estimating software, CRM, Bluebeam, ERP, Excel, SharePoint or OneDrive, Outlook and Teams.

  • Procore
  • Autodesk Construction Cloud
  • bid portals
  • estimating software
  • CRM
  • Bluebeam
  • ERP
  • Excel
  • SharePoint
  • OneDrive
  • Outlook
  • Teams

A week, before and after

Before

  • Six plan rooms, all checked by hand
  • Addenda found late, or not at all
  • Go/no-go meetings run from memory

After

  • Invitations arrive summarized with break-even computed
  • Sets downloaded, checked and filed
  • Addenda caught and mapped to trades
  • Bid day starts with the checklist built

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