Forecast: upcoming lettings, ready to forecast in one click

Forget hunting down bid items, downloading the CSV, and uploading it back into Edgevanta. We now pull the bid items into every upcoming job for you, so the manual setup is gone.

Click Create and you’ll see every upcoming letting for the owners you follow, organized by state, owner, and letting date. Select a whole letting or just the jobs you’re chasing. Every rough-in and forecast is created in one step with the bid items already loaded. You go straight from “what’s letting next month?” to pricing the job.

Upcoming lettings are live in 10 states today, and we’re adding more every day.

Forecast: see how accurate your forecasts were

The Forecasts page now has an Accuracy tab, available to every account. Each forecast is scored against the official bid tab, with one row per owner and letting date. You’ll see the forecasted low, the actual low bid, and the difference, added up across the whole letting. Forecasts that are a line or two off from the official tab are still scored instead of being skipped, so you get the full picture.

Improvements

• Forecast InEight price-only exports (Line Number and Unit Price) import straight into My Current Price
• Import/Export Forecast Excel exports open with a details sheet, and What Won It can now be exported
• Coverage Upcoming lettings added for Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas

Fixes

• Forecast Uploads catch item numbers that don’t line up with their descriptions and realign them automatically
• Forecast The Alternates window lets you edit every either/or set and fits on the screen

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Document Analysis: a new way to review bid packages

Document Analysis is a brand-new workflow for reviewing bid packages from start to finish, and it's now available to every organization. It's built to take you from a stack of files to a finished, shareable review in one place. Each project runs through four tabs:

1. Package holds your files and the key facts pulled from them.
2. Set up gets the project ready.
3. Review is where you read, with every file and note in one spot.
4. Outputs collects everything the project produced.

While you read, you can take notes in the Notepad and tag them. Keep them private or share them with your team, and see every teammate's notes in one place. Ask a question right from the document and get an answer with cited sources, then add that answer to your notes. Your question history is saved, so you can share, rename, or delete questions anytime.

When you're done, preview and download what you need, one file or all at once: your notes as a PDF, your team's review as a PDF, or a marked-up copy of the documents where every note becomes a comment linked back to its spot in the source, with bookmarks and page labels.

Document Analysis will eventually replace Projects. Until then, both are available, so you can start using the new workflow whenever you're ready.‍

‍See it Live: we're planning a webinar to walk through a real bid package in Document Analysis, from the first file to the finished review. Stay tuned for an invite!

Bid Tabulations: see What Won It on any job

What Won It, the view that shows where a job was decided, now lives in Bid Tabulations too. Pick any job, any two bidders and compare them item by item to see exactly where one pulled ahead. The Post Bid tab has also been simplified, with the bidder ranking above the full tabulation and a full-screen view for the price sheet.

Improvements

• Forecast Add or edit owners after a forecast is created, and price a forecast against more than one owner
• Forecast Anything you can click now has a dotted underline, including the unit price under My Ext. on the Summary tab
• Import/Export Column review is skipped when every column in your file checks out
• Agents Scanned pages and full files are read more accurately
• Bid Prices Liquid asphalt index refreshed for October 2026 across 42 states
• Coverage West Virginia September 2026 bid tabs are loaded

Fixes

• Rough In Parameters stay on Statewide Unbanded after you open them
• Bid Tabulations Item detail filters narrow the bids list and carry into Rough In
• Bid Tabulations Alternates stay sharp in pinned columns while you scroll
• Forecast Custom bid tabs show up when you pick jobs for a forecast, so county and local jobs can be pulled into a forecast
• Custom Bid Tabs Vendor columns show the company name, and it's clear everywhere whether a bid tab has been published
• Custom Bid Tabs Scanned bid tabs read quantities and prices at the right scale, skip vendor-totals pages, and keep alternates with the right bidder
• Custom Bid Tabs Bid forms keep their cover pages and price sheets

Post-Bid Analysis: completely rebuilt

The post-bid review has been rebuilt from the ground up. After bid tabs are published, open your forecast to see exactly how the prediction compared with the result: what we expected the low bid to be, what it actually was, and where the gap came from.

What Won It shows the lines with the biggest gap between first and second place, so you can see where the job was decided. Variance lists every line against the winner, by item or by category, with the full bid tabulation alongside. Every comparison puts your bid against the low bidder, and the rest of the field is one click away when you want it.

Post-Bid Analysis becomes available once the DOT publishes the full bid tabs. Our team adds them to Edgevanta within two business days of publication.

Forecast: choose what prices a line

For items with little bid history, you now decide where the price comes from. Pick which catalog items the price draws on, and where it should look when history runs thin: a DOT district or region, or the forecast’s own similar bids. Your choice is saved on the line and shown right on it.

Forecast: see how every price was calculated

When a price doesn’t come from the item’s own bids, an icon now appears in the price cell. Hover over it to see what the price is based on. The Calculation Method badge is also color-coded, so you can tell at a glance whether a line was priced exactly on your Parameters or had to loosen some of them to find enough bids.

Custom Bid Tabs: built for complex files

Messy files now come through cleanly. Combine several files into one bid tab, and long scanned bid forms, crooked scans, multi-bidder packets, and spreadsheets with heading rows all read correctly. Duplicate uploads are flagged before they create a second bid tab, and if you upload a DOT bid tab, Edgevanta recognizes it and points you to the DOT data already in the platform.

Improvements

• Bid Tabulations Vendors are tracked state by state, so a contractor working in several states appears once in each, keeping reports simple to read. Joint ventures are listed on their own
• Custom Bid Tabs Large files finish processing faster
• Coverage Refreshed letting dates for 24 states, including Texas, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, and Illinois

Fixes

• Forecast Either/or alternates (ALT 1, ALT 2, and so on) count only once. Rough In, My Current Price, Market, and vendor totals include only the alternate a contractor would actually bid
• Forecast On vendor columns, the Similar Bids, Districts, Counties, and Vendor filters now show that they only apply when the vendor doesn’t have enough bids of its own

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