CheckIT RFQ • Bid Leveling — What should you pay?
You got three bids. You took the lowest. Lowest wasn't right.
Somebody hid scope in the line items. Somebody priced the pipe and skipped the fittings. Somebody's "complete" bid excludes the traffic control you'll pay for in a change order later. That's where the 15–20% variance lives — and once you award it, it's locked in. CheckIT RFQ levels every bid at line-item scope — quote comparison done at the depth where scope actually hides — so you award the right number, not the cheapest one. The pilot is running now, by invitation — request access; 90 days free once you're in.
Invite-only pilot • Same engine as CheckIT Invoice • Same drag-drop-done interface
The spreadsheet says the bids are level. The line items say otherwise.
Hidden scope gaps
One bid includes the fittings, one doesn't. One carries traffic control, one assumes you do. The bottom-line numbers can't tell you — only the line items can, and nobody has time to level 400 of them by hand.
Apples-to-concrete comparisons
Different units, different groupings, different exclusion pages buried in the terms. Your team normalizes it in Excel — for hours — and the quote comparison still misses what a supplier chose not to price.
The award locks it in
Every gap you miss at award comes back as an RFI, a change order, or an invoice surprise. The cheapest bid on paper becomes the most expensive sub on the job.
You already know this. That's why you don't quite trust the leveling sheet. Neither did we.
How it works
Drag in the bids. See the real comparison.
Drag
Pull every bid into CheckIT — PDF, Excel, scanned quote, doesn't matter.
Drop
Anywhere on the screen. No templates. No bid-form requirements for your subs.
Process
The engine reads every line, normalizes units and groupings, and levels every bid against your scope — flagging what's missing, excluded, or priced off-market.
Generate
A leveling sheet you can defend — every variance tied to the exact line in the source bid. One click drafts the clarification email to the bidder.
Done
Award the right number. Protect the job before it starts.
The bid you level becomes the contract we verify.
CheckIT RFQ and CheckIT Invoice run on the same engine. The quote you award in RFQ becomes the baseline Invoice checks every payment against — automatically, no re-uploading, no re-keying. Award it right, then verify every invoice against exactly what you awarded. That's how the margin protection compounds across the job.
The pilot group is small on purpose.
CheckIT RFQ is open by invitation to a limited group of contractors — contractors who buy enough material and sub scope for bid leveling to matter, and who'll tell us the truth about what works. Request access and we'll come back to you; accepted pilots get 90 days free. Four of our current Invoice customers are already extending into it on their own ask. If you level bids in Excel today, you're who we built this for.
No commitment. Accepted pilots get 90 days free.
Bid leveling, answered.
Bid leveling is lining up every sub and supplier bid against the same scope so the numbers actually compare — same units, same groupings, same line items. Done right, it shows you what each bidder included, excluded, or priced off-market, not just whose bottom line is lowest.
Same job, different depth. Quote comparison usually means bottom-line numbers side by side. Bid leveling is quote comparison done at line-item scope: normalize the units and groupings, then check every line for missing scope, exclusions, and off-market pricing. The bottom lines can't tell you who skipped the fittings — only the line items can.
Because 15–20% of bid variance hides in the line items. One bid includes the fittings, one doesn't. One carries traffic control, one assumes you do. Every gap you miss at award comes back as an RFI, a change order, or an invoice surprise — so the cheapest bid on paper becomes the most expensive sub on the job.
Drag every bid in — PDF, Excel, scanned quote, doesn't matter. The engine reads every line, normalizes units and groupings, and levels every bid against your scope, flagging what's missing, excluded, or priced off-market. You get a leveling sheet you can defend — every variance tied to the exact line in the source bid — and one click drafts the clarification email to the bidder.
CheckIT RFQ is running now as an invite-only pilot, open to a limited group of contractors. Request access on this page and we'll come back to you; accepted pilots get 90 days free, with no commitment.
No. There are no templates and no bid-form requirements for your subs — bids come in as PDFs, Excel files, or scanned quotes, and you drag them in as-is. RFQ runs on the same engine and the same drag-drop-done interface as CheckIT Invoice, and the quote you award becomes the baseline Invoice checks every payment against — automatically, no re-uploading.
Missing scope. Excluded items. Off-market pricing.
CheckIT RFQ levels every bid at line-item scope — so you award the right number, not the cheapest one.
Invite-only pilot. Accepted pilots get 90 days free. No commitment.