Best Construction Bid Management Software in Africa
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What is Construction Bid Management Software in Africa?
Construction bid management software allows construction organizations to streamline bidding processes through the use of contract creation and organization tools. Compare and read user reviews of the best Construction Bid Management software in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Bidtracer
Bidtracer
Bidtracer has been built specifically for the MEP/BAC industry for both construction and service side including but not limited to CRM, Bid Management, Invitation to Bid, BAC Estimating, BAC Engineering, Project Management, Service Agreement, Service Work Orders, Service Repair, Service Projects all built natively in the cloud. Estimating/engineering established live pricing with numerous manufacturers such as JCI, Distech Controls, ABB, Carrier, ALC and many peripheral distributors such as Kele, Alps, Belimo, Siral, Bray. If you haven’t imported it yet, we can import it multiple times throughout the year. Our system caters to businesses of all sizes and accommodates users from various roles such as: estimators, engineers, PMs, sales, executive, and field workers. It includes rich reporting features with customizable reports, charts, and graphs to enable companies to analyze their data in real-time.Starting Price: $60.00/month/user -
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STACK
Stack Construction Technologies
Integrated takeoff and estimating software designed for any project and any trade. If you want to add hours back to your day, eliminate costly estimating mistakes and say goodbye to paper plans, you’ve come to the right place. STACK powers a more collaborative, efficient takeoff and estimating process so you can focus on what’s most important – your bottom line. Create a free account today!Starting Price: $0 -
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Contractor Foreman
Contractor Foreman
Starting at $49/m for the WHOLE company, Contractor Foreman is the most affordable all-in-one construction management system for contractors. Our customers in 75+ countries and industry awards back it up. And it's all backed by a 100 day guarantee. Stop wasting time and money on overpriced software. Quickly build estimates, generate invoices, and get paid online. Our QuickBooks integration reduces the need for double entry. Contractor Foreman makes it easy for you and your crew to track your time, expenses, Daily Logs, and much more. Best Price + Best Features = Best Choice Tired of wasting time and money on overpriced construction management software that is difficult to use and doesn't provide the features you need? Look no further than Contractor Foreman. Come and grow with us.Starting Price: $49.00/month -
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ConWize is a cloud-based platform that helps construction companies estimate projects more accurately and win more tenders. Estimating construction projects are complex and time-consuming. Overlooked errors can result in losing tenders, or throw you off budget in the execution phase. ConWize simplifies the bidding and estimation process in the tender phase, to protect your company against crucial mistakes, so you can win more tenders, and execute them profitably. We offer: ALL-IN-ONE BIDDING AND ESTIMATING PLATFORM FOR TENDER DEPARTMENTS: Tenders pipeline management, subcontractors bidding automation, advanced estimating tools, indirect costs and profit loading tools, Tender KPI analytics, and more. ESTIMATE PROJECTS AND MANAGE EXECUTION IN ONE PLATFORM: We know that the bottom line of projects is profitability. ConWize's pre-contract management module seamlessly connects the tender and execution phases to maximize control and project monitoring.Starting Price: Free
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Expert Estimation
Pronamics
Expert Estimation provides three license levels of exceptional project cost estimating software. You will create accurate estimates with time-saving formulas and flexible degrees of complexity over an array of features. Our software includes exceptional 24/7 phone, email, and chat support and multiple training options. API allows users to query project data. Use Expert Estimation to confidently control overheads, use accurate trusted formulas, create templates, control margins, have transparent reporting, automate cost estimation, predict cashflows, assign cost codes, perform cost analysis and create take off sets. Expert Estimation integrates a contextual help system linked with Pronamics' online Support Hub, Knowledge Base, Online Training and YouTube channel so you will find useful information and valuable tools quickly and easily. Our software has set the industry standard for estimation software for over 30 years. FREE TRIAL comes with FREE PHONE, EMAIL & CHAT SUPPORT.Starting Price: $125 AUD per month -
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ArcSite
ArcSite
It's so much more than an intuitive tool for precise and accurate drawings on the go, it's a new skillset to help you change the way you do business. Audits, inspections, and data capture simplified. ArcSite automatically tallies and records every product placed in your drawing including custom data points that fit your team's workflow. Turn your site drawing into a custom sales proposal in just a few taps. Proposals in ArcSite change the way you communicate your scope to customers, which leads to more closed deals and higher satisfaction. No more scribbling in the margins or using multiple sheets of paper, ArcSite's unlimited canvas lets you capture an entire job site without compromising. From a simple home floor plan to a 1,000-acre project area, your drawings are always accurate and on one document with ArcSite.Starting Price: $15 per user per month -
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Planyard
Planyard
Build without doing repetitive data entry. Manage your budgets without Excel and back-and-forth emails. Let your subcontractors do the data entry for you. Know whether a project makes a profit or not before it finishes. Detect estimating and design errors. Save 3-5 days per month per project manager. Get rid of manual calculations and copy-paste. Standardize the processes and ensure compliance. Don’t let things fall through the cracks. Know whether a project makes a profit or not before it finishes. Save 3-5 days per month per project manager. Standardize the processes and ensure compliance. Detect estimating and design errors. Get rid of manual calculations and copy-paste. Don’t let things fall through the cracks. Easily prepare and send bid requests to subcontractors. Quickly evaluate RFQs next to each other, request bids adjustment via multi-round bidding, and convert the winning bid to a contract with one click.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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PMWeb
PMWeb
PMWeb is an easy-to-use, capital construction project management software built for owners worldwide, used by Harvard, Atlanta Airport, United Nations, and more. Manage the entire project lifecycle within one, integrated, single sign-on system, replacing over 25 solutions, and built on a powerful visual workflow platform for managing all portfolio, program, and project information. Additionally, PMWeb has multi-currency capabilities, 5+ year planning, and more. One of the biggest advantages that PMWeb has over its competition is in its integration. The software has several features, but all of these features are integrated into one singe software interface. The interface is easy to understand, making it easier to follow and manage programs and the data involved in the business. PMWeb also features one of the most user-friendly interfaces in project management. This is one of the reasons why it is among the easiest software solutions to learn and implement. -
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Followup CRM
Followup CRM
Followup CRM is a simple sales and project management CRM built for construction companies that will give you visibility into your team’s activity, allow you to report your progress internally, and open up channels for transparent collaboration across teams. In other words, exactly what you need to take the next step as a successful business. Convert won opportunities to projects seamlessly without losing any data. Track milestones, manage processes, and integrate with external systems to ensure on-time delivery and happy customers. As every business knows, winning a client is only the beginning. Keeping everyone involved aligned in delivering the product or service, is the most important part of any customer relationships.Starting Price: $55/user/month -
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BuildingConnected
Autodesk
The best builders choose us to make preconstruction easy. We make communication ridiculously easy. More builders choose us to send invitations to bid, qualify vendors, and track opportunities than any other software solution. Easily find and qualify subs, send custom bid invites, and communicate with everyone. Keep track of your bid invites, stay ahead of deadlines, and measure your success. Leverage the largest network of builders, view historical costs, and get real-time analytics. -
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Autodesk Construction Cloud
Autodesk Construction Cloud
Autodesk Construction Cloud connects workflows, teams and data at every stage of construction to reduce risk, maximize efficiency, and increase profits. Keep projects on track by allowing teams to collaborate, connect and integrate with the most up-to-date schedule. Easily access short, on-demand courses from any device to help you use any Autodesk Construction Cloud product! Bring every project team together from design to turnover on a single construction software solution. Connect workflows and collaborate securely from a single source of truth. Seamlessly collaborate with powerful, simple software that connects critical workflows. Linked workflows move information between teams quickly, and critical context doesn’t get lost along the way. Plan, escalate and resolve work, all in one place. Powerful, purpose-built tools for all construction stakeholders. Model the right workflows for your projects and easily manage how information is shared with partners, securely.Starting Price: $25.30 per month -
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Cosential
Cosential
Cosential helps commercial Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) firms grow revenue, decrease costs of winning new business and end chaos with its “Growth and Relationship Management” software and services for CRM, proposal management, marketing and more. As the leader in the AEC industry, for 20+ years Cosential has helped over 1,000 AEC firms increase annual revenue by 1% or more and increase productivity in key business development processes by up to 50%. See a 30-minute demo. -
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InEight
InEight
InEight is a leader in construction project controls software, empowering over 850 companies taking on challenging projects in industries including construction and engineering; transportation infrastructure; mining; water; power and renewables; and oil, gas and chemical. Uniquely suited to capital construction and other complex work, our integrated, modular software manages projects worth over $1 trillion globally, taking control of project information management, costs, schedules, contracts, and construction operations, and delivering insights with advanced analytics and AI. InEight's solutions adapt and scale to meet the dynamic needs of modern construction, driving operational excellence and successful project outcomes. -
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PreconSuite
PreconSuite
PreconSuite is a suite of software modules which streamline your pre-construction bid management process more efficiently so you can win more bids. Bid Solicitation Software sends bid invites in minutes and addenda notices in seconds. Your select subs access your online plan room without having to register or remember a login. You own and control your data, and it is never shared. Robust searchable directory of Subcontractors in the USA and Canada to augment your database when you lack coverage in areas or trades for your bid invitations. Free signup for Vendors and Subcontractors. Keep your bidders qualified with our highly customizable drag and drop form builder. Allows you to qualify your subs your way and create unlimited reports based on information collected. Create unlimited forms for any purpose.Starting Price: $150/month -
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RIB Candy
RIB Software
RIB Candy is the leading construction management software suite, designed for the estimation and control of built environment projects. Unique and powerful, Candy has been developed to the industry’s requirement - from take-off to pricing and planning a project, controlling at site level through to the final certificate. Features include project Estimating, Quantity Take-off (QTO), Planning, Forecasting, Cash Flow, Valuations, Subcontract Management and Cost & Allowable.Starting Price: $200 -
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BidBook
CRM Evangelist
Manage your Bids, Revenue and Projects with BidBook for Salesforce CRM. Manages relationships that drive new project demand. Submits Proposal Estimates. Manages follow-up tasks. Views estimation queue. Works or uploads estimates. Invites approved suppliers to bid on scopes of work. Manages suppliers bid process and overall budget. Produces proposal documentation. Collaborates with the team. Uses BidBook to aggregate all inbound bidding opportunity. Collects files, drawings, and addendums necessary. Assigns bids to sales and estimation to pursue. Views pending demand for projects, revenue schedules, profit analysis, and win/loss performance. Approves purchase orders. Initiates invoices.Starting Price: $30.00/month/user -
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Projectmates
Systemates, Inc.
You want to deliver projects on time and on budget without using cumbersome software that’s expensive to customize. Meet Projectmates—the proven way to help your projects come in on time and under budget. Projectmates is a configurable construction project management software that’s powerful yet user-friendly. With easy integration and full mobile functionality, Projectmates provides every tool you need to manage and monitor projects throughout the entire lifecycle, from planning to closeout, in one centralized platform. Within Projectmates’ budgeting tools, everything tracks back to your budget in real time. This allows you to immediately see anticipated costs and how they impact your budget on that project, and better yet, how it affects the entire construction program budget. Projectmates makes misinformation, costly delays, and manual processes a thing of the past. And as the leader in providing fast implementation and onboarding, you’ll quickly see fast time-to-value. -
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Archdesk
EMS Operations
Archdesk is an all-in-one software built specifically for the construction industry. Archdesk covers the workflow from A-Z, from initial client inquiry, through estimation, contracts, project management, budgeting, scheduling, labour management, asset management, costings, reporting, team collaboration till the last invoice is issued. All this in a modern and beautiful workflow accessible from any device.Starting Price: £449 per month -
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Methvin
Methvin
Methvin is a Collaborative Portal for Clients and Contractors. Shift from the adversary approach of managing clients to one of open communications. This will foster and improve relationships and outcomes for both parties. The shared goals will establish the basis for a motivated team and encourage individual contribution to the end goal of delivering your project on-budget and on-time. Methvin Agile is a project management tool that enables you to visually organize your project in a way better and easier than other expensive software packages. Methvin Agile will provide you with a place to deposit and use critical drawings and documents. Relax knowing that once loaded, these cannot be deleted; but can be retired and replaced with a new version. Further to this, Agile will facilitate the management of incidents on site through to closure including: Management System Estimating Software Gantt Scheduler Takeoff tool Contract documentation Drawing register Client RFIsStarting Price: Free for single users -
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Realtraker
V-PLAN
Save your money and time with Realtraker, the most cost effective and realtime construction management software. You can work from any device. We built Realtraker to work across smartphones, tabs, laptops and desktops. As long as you could get online, you are in control of your project. No need to worry on sending emails and reports to send to your internal team or Project consultant or owner. Realtraker takes care of that, with auto send daily report at the end of each day to shared emails. Upload project drawings and create project scope. All your project team can access the project details and update the status of scope in real time . With Realtraker all teams on the same page in realtime. With realtime dashboard the decision makers are at ease. Realtraker presents all critical project information including daily progress, costs and resources, issues impacting progress, changes to contract ... much more in one place.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Trimble Metrics MEP
Trimble MEP UK
Integrated end-to-end profitability management for MEP contractors. Deliver MEP projects on time and on budget using Metrics MEP, the cloud-based takeoff, estimating and contract management solution designed to gain visibility on the profitability of your business. Perform digital takeoff in a user friendly environment and manage your jobs to ensure profitability. 30% of MEP contractors are going out of business. Too many MEP contractors go out of business because of inaccurate estimating, out of date material pricing and poor job cost management. How do you make sure you are not one of them? Your focus is on producing highly accurate estimates to ensure the profitability of every job as this can make or break your business. There is no room for error with Metrics MEP. Bad estimates lead to unprofitable jobs. You need an estimating program that allows you to perform takeoff accurately and create estimates from it without having to redo work. Spreadsheets and manual takeoff methodsStarting Price: $622 per user, per year -
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BidWork
BidWork
Free standalone enquiries tool for main contractors Everything you need to manage enquiries An all in one enquiries tool that does the hard work for you from start to finish. Quickly create and send invitations for quotations, organise project details, upload documents and add necessary trades to create a new enquiry in minutes. Best of all, it's free to use. BETTER THAN: Email/Dropbox/WeTransfer Conquest Causeway In-house software. The user friendly enquiries portal for main contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. Stay organised easier while working with tight tender deadlines. Distributing addendums clearly by showing what is added, revised or deleted. Helping the construction industry stay connected with a constantly updated database. Connecting main contractors to local supply chain and micro businesses. Free to use. Free standalone enquiries tool for main contractors. Find, prioritise and win more work. Build relationships and manage invitations all in one place.Starting Price: $688 -
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BidCentral
BidCentral
Browse for pre-bid, public and private project opportunities using advanced search tools, opportunity matching, and automated notifications when new projects are posted. With BidCentral you’ll never run out of projects to bid on. Gain insight into current, future and awarded bidding opportunities with quick and easy access to accurate, complete project information and documents. View the categorized documents, download, print and order the plans you need when you need them. Subscribe to keep track of projects, stay ahead of deadlines through instant notifications of addenda, site meetings and project updates. Keep track of important to-dos with our built-in reminder system. Get new project opportunities delivered right to your inbox when projects that match your keywords get posted. No need to keep checking for new projects with this handy feature that emails you daily for new projects in your region or those that suit your specifications.Starting Price: $79 per month -
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Bitumio
Bitumio
The most robust and user-friendly estimation and scheduling software for asphalt contractors, Bitumio consolidates your efforts into a single software for job estimation, scheduling, customer management, job costing, and a whole lot more. Bitumio simplifies this for you, and more, by auto-calculating these based on your crew's production rates, job location, and job size. No more guessing how much material to estimate because of varying crack sizes or whether you spraying or squeegeeing. Know exactly how much material, time, and cost to include to produce more accurate and competitive estimates. Create estimates faster and more accurately by simplifying your estimating processes. Consolidate the apps you are using into a single app for estimating, measuring, scheduling, job tracking, prospect/customer follow-up, and more. Manage all your contacts, proposals, and jobs in a single, user-friendly location.Starting Price: Free -
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BidPlanroom
Bid Planroom
You have full control over the projects you list in your planroom. There are two options for listing your projects, Publicly and Privately. Listing a project publicly will give your project more exposure, and makes it easy for your subcontractors and suppliers to access your project. Listing your project privately allows you to securely hide your project from the network and only let those you invite to access the project. General Contractors have unlimited plan storage for every project. Upload and manage your plans with your bid projects in our easy-to-use plan room. Our online plan rooms for construction support quick viewing, uploading, downloading and versioning of your documents. The BidPlanroom solution is fully integrated with Citrix® ShareFile technology, one of the nation's leading file share companies, safely securing your project documents. Sending company-branded ITBs is quick and easy when it's time to invite your subcontractors to your project.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Twenty20 Construction Cloud
Hindsight Technologies
Twenty20 is the first full-featured ERP solution for contractors of all sizes that is 100% customizable to your specific needs. Twenty20 is Easy to learn, Easy to setup, and Easy to use. Modules include: -Accounting - Project Management - Document Management - Estimating - Scheduling - Service Management and Work Order Management - Equipment & Fleet Management Management - Human Resource Management - Leave Management - Time and Attendance Tracking - Expense Report Management - Sales and CRM Our ideal customer: is a contractor that has multiple systems to manage their business and looking for ONE complete solution that is fully integrated and customizable to their needs and requirements.Starting Price: $350.00/month -
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CIVCAST
AMTEK
Cloud-based bid management and online bidding service for civil engineers and government agencies. Share bid documents, track plan holders, automate addendum alerts, receive and respond to questions, receive bids, and automate bid tabulations. Save hours of time and reach more bidders. You want happy clients. This means you need competitive bids. Advertise your bid notices (including plans & bid documents) to thousands of contractors. Learn how to save 20+ hours a week with 5 simple steps (for civil engineering firms and gov. agencies). Loved by hundreds of civil engineers and government agencies. Manage your civil construction bids with ease. Automate time-consuming tasks (such as distributing plans and bid documents, recording plan holders, addendum alerts) so that you can free-up and unburden your admin staff.Starting Price: $100 one-time payment -
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Trimble Quest
Trimble Civil Construction Software
Producing an accurate construction project bid is the first step of any successful construction contract. Trimble understands the importance of modeling costs with real world accuracy to provide civil contractors with tools to create true construction project estimates. Trimble Quest is a first principles estimating software platform with cost libraries so you can rapidly produce quotes. Understanding your true construction costs will improve the accuracy of your construction estimates and ultimately increase your project margins. Control construction costs and own your construction budget with Trimble Quest software. By providing the necessary budget management tooling to continuously track progress and monitor allowed expenditure, Trimble Quest construction budget management software ensures project profitability for your construction project. -
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PlanHub
PlanHub
PlanHub is a centralized project planning and quoting system designed specifically for General Contractors and Subcontractors. Offering benefits such as unlimited project posting, bid invites, team members, and more, PlanHub works to ensure that General Contractors have a customizable online plan room to organize subcontractor team members and post jobs available for bidding. PlanHub also offers demo requests for your convenience so you can experience how PlanHub can help your business before you commit fully. If you are a General Contractor or Subcontractor that has questions about how you can benefit from using PlanHub, feel free to visit our website or give us a call. -
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WeBuild
Tenderfield
Cloud-based integrated construction management system with consistent experience between the office and the field, and access in real-time for all project stakeholders on all smart devices. WeBuild Construction Management System is a fully integrated online platform built specially for commercial contractors to give you complete control over your business, in the office and in the field. Everything your team needs to know and everyone you need to connect with (in real-time) are on your very own customized online management platform. WeBuild is affordable and flexible – you pay only for what you use and can scale your subscription up or down to meet your changing business needs. Streamline the bidding process with all the tools and reports you need to be more competitive and profitable.