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FASTQUOTE FOR CONSTRUCTION · SPECIALTY & TRADE CONTRACTORS

Every discipline.
One bid you can defend.

Estimate each discipline in its own workbook, roll them up into one summary, and send one combined bid — with project-level costs, contingency, bond and alternates handled the way bids actually work. Your rates, your files, your machine.

Built and working in our tests; not yet field-tested on real bids, and not part of the closed beta. We are looking for construction design partners to quote real jobs with us.

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ArchitecturalStructuralElectricalMechanical / HVACCivil / SiteYour own disciplines
SummaryArchitecturalElectricalQuote
LineDescriptionTypeBasisTotal
AArchitecturalSCOPEworkbook184,320
EElectricalSCOPEworkbook96,750
SCivil / SiteSCOPEworkbook61,400
P1General conditionsLABR320 hr27,200
—Contingency 5%CONT5%18,484
—Bond 1.5% of contractBOND1.5%5,911
TOTAL CONTRACT VALUE $394,065
26112-Summary.xlsx ▶ Run All
WORKFLOW

From plan set to total contract value

1. Take offPlans, schedules, bid forms
→
2. PriceA workbook per discipline
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3. Roll upOne summary, one Run All
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4. BidOne combined quote PDF
TAKEOFF

Start from what the GC sends you

=PLANS()

PDF plans

Measure lengths, areas and counts on scaled sheets with fastTakeoff, inside fastQuote. Quantities arrive with waste and CSI codes in the right discipline.

=CAD()

CAD plans

DXF plans are measured by the engine — lengths and areas by layer — so the geometry comes from the drawing, not from a guess.

=SCHEDULE()

Schedules & bid forms

Door, fixture and equipment schedules and owner bid forms become estimate rows. Your own AI assistant reads them if you use one; alternates on the bid form stay out of the base bid.

THE BID

The parts of a bid spreadsheets get wrong

Per discipline

Your costs, your markups

  • Material, labor, equipment, subcontract, permits and consumables as their own cost types
  • Overhead and profit set per cost type — the markup is calculated, not typed
  • Waste factor per cost type, applied to unit cost
  • CSI code on every row; units in LF, SF, SY, CY, SQ, LS and more
MATLLABREQUIPSUBCPERMCONS
On the summary

Project-level costs, done right

  • General conditions and other project costs as a lump sum, % of direct, % of sell, or hours × rate
  • Show each one as its own line, or spread it across the disciplines to the cent
  • Contingency on the whole job; bond as a share of the contract, grossed up
  • One combined quote PDF: a section per discipline and the total contract value
SCOPESYSTMCONTBOND
WHY FASTQUOTE

Built on the same engine

=TRUST()

Every dollar traceable

Each number comes from a quantity, a rate or a markup rule you can point to. No AI sets a price.

=TERMS()

A bid, not a price list

Sales tax on or off, validity and expiry, exclusions and clarifications, alternates priced but kept out of the total, and a compare between bid revisions.

=LOCAL()

Your numbers stay yours

Your unit costs and bid history never leave your machine — or your server, on Enterprise. No cloud, no data collection.

Construction is included in every fastQuote plan — no add-on price. We will say “field-tested” here once real bids have been quoted with it.