Great bid Tool
Company does alot of bid work and collaborates with customers who do the same. Needed a good software to be able to communicate and manage …
BuildingConnected, an Autodesk product
BuildingConnected, an Autodesk product
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View all 24 features- Document sharing (14)8.282%
- Bid creation (11)8.181%
- Plan distribution & viewing (13)8.181%
- Plan markups & sharing (9)8.080%
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What is BuildingConnected, an Autodesk product?
BuildingConnected is an online preconstruction platform supporting communication and collaboration with contractors, subcontractors, and real estate owners. The platform supports bid management with cost tracking and analytics, relationship tracking, alerting, and unlimited bid invitations.…
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Features Scorecard
Human Resource Management
8.0
80%
Reporting & Analytics
7.0
70%
Construction Project & Field Management
7.7
77%
Estimating
8.6
86%
Product Details
What is BuildingConnected, an Autodesk product?
BuildingConnected is an online preconstruction communications and bidding management platform. It heavily features a communications network and online database of and for general contractors, subcontractors, and owners. BuildingConnected is designed for functionality for each of these groups.
General contractors are offered bid management and comparison capabilities. BuildingConnected also supports historical cost and relationship tracking and real-time reporting for live projects. TradeTapp also assists with subcontractor prequalification processes.
BuildingConnected’s primary offering for subcontractors is an online Bid Board designed to enable full visibility and workflow within subcontractors’ organizations during the bidding process. The bid board features bid analytics, estimator performance tracking, and other reporting capabilities. It also allows for variable user permissions for data security purposes.
BuildingConnected provides real estate owners with access to its online network of general contractors and subcontractors. It also provides online bidding support.
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BuildingConnected is an online preconstruction platform supporting communication and collaboration with contractors, subcontractors, and real estate owners. The platform supports bid management with cost tracking and analytics, relationship tracking, alerting, and unlimited bid invitations. BuildingConnected was acquired by Autodesk in 2018.
Reviewers rate Cost calculator highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of BuildingConnected, an Autodesk product are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees) and the Construction industry.
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May 09, 2022
Great bid Tool
Company does alot of bid work and collaborates with customers who do the same. Needed a good software to be able to communicate and manage all of the information. We also source out work with subcontractors and needed a good way to track it. It also provides a place to distribute drawings and specifications for projects.
- Managing bid lists
- Distributing drawings and documents
- Finding subcontractors
- Collaboration between our teams and our customers
- Hard to export to other programs
- Hard to communicate with customers using other software
March 11, 2020
BuildingConnected helps us bid
BuildingConnected is currently being used by our estimating department and our compliance department. Our estimating department uses it to bid out projects to subcontractors. They are able to send all subs bid packages and collect their bids. They are also able to do bid leveling. Our compliance department uses BuildingConnected to prequalify new subcontractors.
- It makes it easy to send out bid packages with just one click.
- It allows us to easily bid level returned bids from subcontractors.
March 04, 2020
One of my favorite Construction Software Tools to use, definitely the best out there for bid management
BuildingConnected is being used as our primary bid management software at a $500MM+ general contracting company. We use it to find and solicit bidders, manage trade packages, distribute and document drawing/specification issuance and at times to level/balance bids. It is used company-wide not just in our typical market location, but nationwide. Its most powerful tool is the ability to find qualified trade companies that are capable of doing work in the area of your project.
- Finding/filtering subcontracting companies by discipline.
- Managing bid lists (who is bidding, who is not bidding, who is undecided).
- Distributing/managing documents and distributing them to potential bidders.
- Exporting data to other programs.
- Integrations with other construction project management software.
February 15, 2020
Review of BuildingConnected
I use BuildingConnected to list projects bidding. I use the free version. I upload plans and invite Subcontractors to bid on the projects. BuildingConnected helps me find out of town subs fast and easy.
- The planroom is great and easy to upload.
- Get for out of town projects! Finding subs fast!
- The free version only allows you to list so many projects.
January 30, 2020
Can't live without BuildingConnected!
BuildingConnected is being used by our estimating department and operation teams during preconstruction. BuildingConnected solves the problem of preconstruction invitations, document control, and bid leveling.
- BuildingConnected maintains our subcontractor database showing prequalification status.
- BuildingConnected makes it very easy to view the subcontractor's history for access to the site and viewing of documents.
- There was a previous glitch where bid forms have been updated by subcontractors that have accessed a former version are not able to access the updated/new bid form.
- I would like to see the ability for BuildingConnected to automatically send a bid reminder to bidders at a set amount of time prior to the bid date.
January 27, 2020
A complete Subcontractor finder and Bid Proposal automated tool vital to any General Contractor working with Subcontractors Nationwide!
Since the Davao business model is to hire local Subcontractors for various trades - BuildingConnected is the most beneficial tool in finding qualified and insured local Contractors based on the geographic radius location next to our business clients. BuildingConnected managed the entire process from project creation using project descriptions and attached architectural drawings and or other supporting material, Individual Trades selection, and specific scope of work descriptions and Subcontractor invitations. We have a real-time view of Subs who view, decline bidding, or interested in bidding as well as sending the bids automatically through the system, or IF they send the bids through email, we can easily upload the bid proposal to their invitation. This also allows us easy tracking for Subcontractor coverage received, which is a KPI (Key Performance Indicators) to upper management of the coverage required for the company's projects.
- Handles the entire Bidding Process from job creation to bid proposal receiving.
- Allows the upload and management of any supporting documentation required.
- Stronger Sub search for situations in which we are not creating and publishing a project within BuildingConnected. In many instances, we simply need to find a trade subcontractor immediately. We cannot waste time in creating, publishing a project, documentation, files, etc., etc.. We should have an excellent advanced search window for this purpose.
January 24, 2020
BuildingConnected is the best in the Bid-ness!
BuildingConnected is our main source for all things bid related. As an estimator, I use BuildingConnected to keep track of all of my undecided, accepted, submitted, and archived bids. I'm able to make comments viewable to the other estimators in my organization for future reference, and see any updates as they come through. BuildingConnected has streamlined our bid process and we are now more efficient than ever.
- Organization
- Internal Communication
- Bid Opportunities I'm Unaware Of
- People Reaching Out Too Often
December 25, 2019
BuildingConnected to Stay Organized!
We use BuildingConnected to keep track of job invites from other general contractors and owners. Our whole company uses it, I currently facilitate our jobs we intend to estimate and I use BuildingConnected to keep track of all the jobs and changes. We use to have to operate through email correspondence but now with BuildingConnected I am able to just log on every morning to see if the jobs we are estimating have any updates and do not have to worry about missing an email.
- Helps keep track of multiple jobs at once
- Helps sort your bid invites into won/lost/pending/archived etc.
- It is a central location where general contractors can put all their updated files and addendum
- Lets you see which contractors are bidding the same job so you can coordinate your estimating
- I like that you can download multiple files as a single zip file, but some times I want to just download multiple files as individual non-zipped files
- I wish there was better integration with Microsoft such as being able to add it as a calendar and edit from Outlook
- I wish there were analytics that tracked who won, by how much, spreads and trends from our numbers so we can be more competitive
BuildingConnection is a fabulous software that is utilized by our entire company. BuildingConnected streamlines the preconstruction process for bid invitations, communication, bidders status, document distribution, etc. There is no better software that we have used that comes even close to BuildingConnected. We utilized iSqFt for years (another bid solicitation software) and the usability of BuildingConnected compared to iSqFt is unbelievable. This software scales from small companies to top ENR contractors. Even the old computer illiterate will love this.
- This software is FREE. However, it gets even better with the paid version.
- Bid Solicitation. It reaches a larger number of subcontractors, and builds a subcontractor database to utilize for every job.
- Prints reports that list all the bidders on a project and their bid status. This is great to print out before a bid to have contact information at the tip of your fingers.
- Messaging is a great way to reach the entire project for Addenda, scope sheets, clarifications, etc.
- It logs exactly when a subcontractor downloads and views the plans/specifications/etc.
- It's super easy to invite new contractors and find subcontractors who are already "qualified" in BuildingConnected's database.
- None
February 28, 2019
Utilize BuildingConnected So YOU Can Get Building!
My company utilizes BuildingConnected for our bidding and budgeting processes. Our company functions such that all project manager personnel participate in the bidding and budgeting phase of work. The program allows us to communicate effectively not only externally, but also internally. It is the fundamental tool that we use for reaching out to subcontractors.
- Invite subcontractors to price a project.
- Share documents with subcontractors interested in pricing a project.
- Keep and track internal notes of conversations so that the project team can coordinate responsibilities of communication.
- Bid leveling capabilities so that we are comparing "apples to apples."
- Making sure subcontractors' information in the system is complete and accurate.
- Tracking the history of subcontractors responses to invitations company-wide.
- Once a package has been published, you cannot go back and un-publish it.
January 23, 2019
BuildingConnected keeps me Connected.
I use BuildingConnected to locate upcoming commercial construction opportunities for [my] company to bid on. I use BuildingConnected to download the plans and specifications so I can perform a take-off and get the project over to the estimator. It also lets me know if there is more than one bidder on the job. Also, another plus for me is it keeps my bid invites organized, and they also sync to my Microsoft Office Calendar. BuildingConnected makes my job easier, I wish everyone used it.
- Keeps track of jobs bidding for me, on the website and my office calendar.
- Allows me to download plans.
- Keeps track of bidders on the job.
- The only problem I have with BuildingConnected is you have to forward your bid invites to them one at a time, I would like it more if I could send them all at one time and they sort them out. When you get 50 invites a day it's time-consuming.
January 17, 2019
BuildingConnected keeps you connected!
Currently, we use BuildingConnected in our estimating department. We get invitations from our GC's when they have a project that they are inviting us to bid on. I like BuildingConnected because it clearly shows what jobs we are bidding on, if we have submitted a proposal, if we are late on the due date. It helps keep everything a little more organized.
- Maps show where the project is.
- Shows if you have submitted a proposal
- Shows if you are late on submitting a proposal
- BuildingConnected is clearly the leader for preconstruction software.
We use BuildingConnected for our estimating department. Prior to BuildingConnected we were using the old email Rolodex and hoping for the best. BuildingConnected's user-friendly UI (User Interface), coupled with its massive database of contractors, made it incredibly easy to organize our pre-construction. Setting up a job is done now in a matter of minutes as opposed to hours. We get real-time information on what our sub-contractors are viewing, downloading, and what their bidding intent is. Communication is streamlined through a message board that is easy to navigate.
- All of these features are dwarfed when you compare it to how incredible the customer service is. Real humans listen to every concern you have and actually make changes based on feedback. This is a fantastic program run by amazing people.
- The clean user interface makes it easy to navigate to what you need in seconds.
- Massive Sub-Contractor database makes it easy to expand your searches and coverage with ease.
- Pre-qualifications. BuildingConnected has a TON of contractors and sometimes we get somebody on there that we don't personally know. Pre-qualifying them right through BuildingConnected means they can start working for us asap.
- Some features are missing. Organizing subs by most used and an RFI log most notably.
January 11, 2019
Upgraded Costs, Downgraded Use
BuildingConnected is used on a regular basis by our Preconstruction Department in at least three of our office locations. It provides everyone in our department with a real-time update on what's going on with our bid lists as they all have the ability to log in and leave notes and/or read each other's notes during the bidding process. It also easily allows subcontractors to access project information.
- BuildingConnected is very user-friendly. It's very hard to "get lost" in the system and is relatively easy for someone new to learn how to use.
- BuildingConnected has an excellent support email set up. When I have sent an email asking them to help a subcontractor get logged in - the response rate is often very quick and typically they are able to effectively solve the issue.
- Their web-based system is never down, at least not that I can remember. It makes me trust their system.
- They are somewhat pushy with wanting companies to upgrade for their paid version. While some of the capabilities of their paid version are worthwhile, we have found that our office would not use most of the features and therefore it's hard for us to justify paying for the upgraded side.
- The file system they have is overall very user-friendly, but if you happen to have a lot of files, it does not give you a count anywhere of how many files you've uploaded and so you still have to check and make sure everything has gone through successfully.
- Their Subcontractor database is built based on companies, such as our ourselves, adding companies to it. What this means is that some locations around the United States have a lot of companies listed while some have next to none. There are also no private listings so once you add the name into the system, it's fair game for your competitors to find the same ones.