Know your scope before you price it.
Tender Helper reads the spec and analyzes the drawings to draft a scope of work — everything relevant is extracted, verified, organized and displayed in minutes.
Review the draft and check it against the source, in the same window, at the same time.
| Summary | Citation | Conf. | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specified Product | |||
| Basis-of-design concrete admixture: Sika ViscoCrete 2100, or approved equal §03 30 00 2.4.A |
Project Manual p.8 | 91% | draft |
| Exposure Class | |||
| Exterior slabs: exposure class F2, min. 6% air content §03 30 00 2.1.C |
Project Manual p.8 | 94% | confirmed |
| FF/FL Requirement | |||
| Interior slab flatness FF35 / FL25 minimum per ACI 117 §03 30 00 3.5.B |
Project Manual p.8 | 89% | confirmed |
| Imaging suite (Rooms 210-214) slab flatness revised to FF50 / FL30 minimum
Possibly amends: “Interior slab flatness FF35 / FL25…” (78% confidence)
Confirm
Reject
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Addendum No. 2 p.1 | 85% | draft |
Three weeks to bid. Nine hundred pages. Four addenda that change what you already priced.
- The spec, the scope of work, and the drawings contradict each other, and no one submits an RFI to catch it. You guess and hope you're right.
- Scope lives in a spreadsheet with no link back to the page it came from. When the PM asks “where does it say that?”, you go hunting.
- An addendum gets posted after you've finished your entire quote. Now you have to re-check everything to see what changed.
- Revised drawings come buried in the addendum package. Legacy takeoff software doesn't know a sheet changed. You're finding it, replacing it, and hoping you caught every version.
- Tender Helper checks the spec, the scope of work, and the drawings against each other and flags contradictions before they become a problem.
- Every scope item carries its document, page and section. Click it and the source page appears.
- Addenda are matched against what you've already confirmed as included, so you see exactly what moved and what it changes.
- New drawing versions are flagged automatically, and Tender Helper can swap them into your takeoff workspace in place of the old sheet with a click of a button.
Four things, done properly.
Upload now, read it when you're ready
Upload the project manual and it's split by CSI division with page ranges automatically — free, and instant. Nothing gets analysed until you press Run Extraction, so you can build the whole tender package first and only spend when you're actually ready to read it.
Citation-first review
Every extracted item — specified products, key requirements, physical scope, whatever your trade's checklist tracks — comes with its document, page and CSI section. Click any citation and the source page opens beside it. Mark items draft, reviewed, confirmed or rejected as you work.
Addendum supersession
Addenda are read in full, whatever division they touch. When one amends an item you've already confirmed, it's matched to that item and surfaced as a decision — not a silent overwrite.
TH Takeoff and bid export
Quantify off the drawings in the same file as the scope, track RFIs and bid due dates, then export the confirmed scope for your bid form or estimate template.
A takeoff workspace that snaps to what's actually drawn.
Draw areas, linear runs and counts straight on the drawing sheet, in the same file as the scope. It snaps to the drawing's own vector linework — the same lines the sheet was drawn with — so a boundary comes out traced, not sketched.
Every drawing in the set is cross-referenced automatically: click a callout on one sheet and jump straight to the detail it points to, or see every other sheet that references the one you're on. Quantities only. Pricing and the cost database stay exactly where they already live.
How it compares to PlanSwift and Bluebeam →Built by one estimator, not a product team.
Tender Helper was written by an estimator who spent years pricing ICI work in the Ottawa–Gatineau corridor — the same manuals, the same addenda, the same 4pm scramble. Every screen exists because a bid went sideways without it.
There is no offshore support queue. If something's wrong with how it reads a spec, you're talking to the person who wrote it.
Try it on the tender that's open on your desk.
Upload one real project manual. If the extracted scope isn't worth the afternoon it saves you, close the tab — there's no card on file.