THE PROBLEM
Bids aren't won on price alone. They're won by whoever follows up.
An estimator prices a job and moves straight to the next one — that's the job. But an award can take months, five different general contractors might be bidding the same package, and nobody announces who won. Without someone dedicated to chasing it down, fabricators find out too late that a builder was awarded the project, the window to send a revised quote has closed, and the work is gone for good.
Months
between a quote going out and an award landing on a single project.
5–10
builders can be bidding the exact same package at once.
0
notice you get when a builder quietly awards the job elsewhere.
1
missed revised-quote window is real, priced tonnage walking out the door.
THE SWITCH
Why estimating teams switch to TenderLog
Without TenderLog
Bids tracked in scattered spreadsheets, if at all
No one owns following up once a quote goes out
Awards discovered by accident, weeks too late
No record of which builders are bidding which job
No visibility into win rate or where time is paying off
With TenderLog
Every job, every builder, in one shared, always-current file
Follow-up dates calculated automatically and flagged when overdue
Calendar and dashboard surface awards before the window closes
A builder profile with full history, win rate, and notes on every GC
Live reports on win rate and pipeline value, sliced any way you want
INSIDE TENDERLOG
Six workspaces. One follow-up system.
From the moment a job is priced to the day it's awarded — every step, every builder, every deadline lives here.
01 Dashboard
Open TenderLog and see, in seconds, exactly what needs attention today — total value currently in progress, value won this year, how many tenders are active, and how many are waiting on a follow-up call right now.
- "Pending follow-up" queue — every open bid past its next follow-up date, worst-overdue first
- Deadlines in the next 7 days, so nothing is submitted late
- Active tenders by estimator, charted, to balance workload across the team
- Recently added jobs, and a one-click year filter to scope the whole app to this year or all time
02 Jobs
The table where every bid actually gets created and edited — sortable, one row per builder on a job, with quick status cards across the top (Pricing, Submitted, Awarded, 2nd Pricing, Won, Lost) that double as one-click filters. Click any row to open the full job page: a stage stepper, a documentation link straight to the job's network folder, an internal task checklist, and a running activity log of every note and stage change.
FIELDS TRACKED PER BUILDER ROW
Project name & REF #
Month / sheet
Builder & contact email
Quoted price
Bid due date
Follow-up interval
Last follow-up date
Builder status (Won / Lost / Unknown)
Follow-up sent (yes/no)
Feedback notes
SEARCH & FILTER BY
Estimator
Month
Stage
Free-text: project, REF, or builder
Flagged only
Follow-up sent only
One-click by status card
03 Pipeline
A drag-and-drop kanban board with every job laid out across the real bidding stages — Pricing, Submitted, Awarded, 2nd Pricing, Won, Client Lost Tender, Lost to Competitor. Drag a card to move it a stage (it's logged in that job's activity history automatically); click a card to jump straight to its full detail page. Export the filtered view as a CSV any time.
SEARCH & FILTER BY
Estimator
Month
04 Calendar
A month grid showing every bid deadline and every upcoming follow-up at once. TenderLog computes each job's next follow-up date automatically from its interval (1 week up to 4 months) and flags it "due," then "URGENT" past a configurable threshold — so a bid can't quietly age past the point where a revised quote still matters. Click any day to see exactly which jobs land on it.
WHAT IT SHOWS
Bid deadlines
Follow-up due
Follow-up urgent (overdue)
Scoped to the year in view
05 Builders
A mini-CRM, built automatically from your real bidding history — no separate data entry. Every builder gets a profile: total tenders quoted, real win-rate percentage, total and won dollar value, contact details, and free-form notes your team can read before the next call.
PER BUILDER, AUTOMATICALLY CALCULATED
Total tenders
Win rate %
Total quoted value
Won value
Full tender history
Contact & notes
06 Reports
A self-serve report builder. Filter by any combination of estimator, stage, month, or builder, group the result by whichever of those you want to compare, choose count or total quoted value, and get a live bar or pie chart plus the exact matching-jobs table underneath — exportable, and never touches your underlying data.
FILTER & GROUP BY
Estimator
Stage
Month
Builder (searchable)
Metric: count or $ value
Bar or pie chart
WHY FABRICATORS & SUBCONTRACTORS
If your shop bids on tenders and waits on awards, you already have this problem — TenderLog is the fix
TESTIMONIALS
Trusted by estimating teams in fabrication & subcontracting
"Before TenderLog, we'd lose jobs simply because nobody knew a builder had already awarded the project. Now every bid has a follow-up date attached to it automatically, and the dashboard tells us exactly who to call each morning. We've picked up work we would have written off completely."
H
Hessam
Estimator, Gonzalez Steel
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