Renovation & Build Command Center
The cheapest bid is not the cheapest job. One bid excluded all electrical and all permits, another excluded painting — and every total looked comparable.
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What’s inside
- Eleven connected databases in two halves: a bid room before you sign, a desk once work has started.
- The normalisation layer — sixteen scope lines with written definitions, so three incomparable bids land on one list and every exclusion gets priced.
- Contractor vetting rows: licence verified, insurance expiry, references phoned, and a vetting-gaps line.
- Selections with a real decide-by date — install date minus lead time minus buffer — and allowance against actual per item.
- Draws and payments comparing percent claimed against percent you verified, change orders with a challenge flag, and the six screens: decide-by this week, am I paid ahead, where the money went, what is not in the bid, this week and overdue, and the change-order alarm.
Who this is for
The listing will not tell you it saves you money — it has no idea what things cost in your county. What it does is put the arithmetic where you can see it, before your leverage is gone: the excluded line items priced at what the other bidders charged, the draw paid ahead of verified work, the change order that may not be yours to pay.