Document Analysis: review the bid package as a team

Reviewing a bid package is a team effort, and Document Analysis is now built for it. Start a comment thread on any page and @mention a teammate to send them straight to that spot. Every teammate’s notes show in their own color, so you can see at a glance who flagged what.

Two new outputs turn that review into something you can use right away:

• Question letter to the owner gathers your team’s open questions into a letter ready to send to the owner before the question deadline.
• Bid review pack pulls together your tagged notes and a recap of the package, ready for your bid review meeting.

The agents are more transparent too. Set Up shows its progress as it reads, including pages read, schedules found, and facts pulled. If something’s missing, run the agents again with a note telling them what to look for, or ask about a single row right from Review. Bid Items keeps every schedule separate and reads straight from the contract’s bid list, and all of the bid’s key dates download as a calendar file you can add to your calendar.

Forecast: call order, the way the DOT reads it

Forecasts created from an upcoming letting now carry the call order, call number, and project description, both in the forecast list and in the forecast header. Within a letting date, forecasts sort by call order, so your list matches the order the DOT reads them on letting day.

Similar Bids got an upgrade on these forecasts too. The window is larger, the Suggested tab shows the same view as All Bids with suggested vendors already selected, and Project Type shows up when you add bids.

Coverage: upcoming lettings in six more states

Upcoming lettings are now live for Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, complete with each state’s letting schedule and program. That means more customers can create every rough-in and forecast for an upcoming letting in one step, with the bid items and plan holders already loaded.

Improvements

• Document Analysis Choose or create a project folder when you start a new project
• Document Analysis Your team’s own dates appear in Bid Facts and in the bid summary
• Forecast Prices on forecasts created from upcoming lettings are rounded the same way as everywhere else
• Custom Bid Tabs Vendor names are cleaned up the same way as in Bid Tabulations
• Coverage South Carolina design-build bid tabs are loaded, and Pennsylvania Turnpike districts are added
• Coverage Refreshed letting dates for 24 states, including Texas, California, North Carolina, Florida, and Washington
• Bid Prices Liquid asphalt index refreshed for November 2026, with price history added for Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and Wyoming
• App Account settings have their own page, and every window across the app has a consistent, cleaner look

Fixes

• Document Analysis Bid Items keeps the plans’ quantity sheet separate from utility schedules and records lettered item numbers exactly as printed
• Document Analysis Your organization can override a DOT owner that was picked up from the page
• Custom Bid Tabs Unsupported CSV files are rejected with a clear message instead of failing silently
• Bid Tabulations Indiana units read correctly from descriptions that wrap onto a second line, and Florida Turnpike lump-sum extensions are corrected
• App The color theme no longer flickers when you switch between open tabs

Document Analysis: let the agents read the bid for you

Document Analysis now does more of the reading before you even open a file. The new Bid Summary agent writes a brief of the entire bid package, and you can download it as a PDF from Outputs. Bid Items reads every schedule in the proposal, groups the base bid with its alternates, and finishes the job even when a schedule ends on a blank page. Spec books split into one PDF per section, so you can jump straight to what you need.

Setup is faster too. Set Up fills in the project details straight from the package, and Bid Facts lays out the key details in one summary. Starting today, every new project opens in Document Analysis.

Forecast: folders, now easier to organize

Choose or create a folder right when you create a forecast, and any forecast you create inside an open folder is filed there automatically. Jump back to parent folders from the path at the top of the page, undo folder changes if you make a mistake, and decide what happens to the forecasts inside a folder before you delete it.

Bid Tabulations: What Won It, line by line

What Won It now shows every bid line, with Line # and Item # just like the other views, so you can trace exactly where the job was decided. It also has its own Export button.

Improvements

• Forecast Lines the DOT has already priced use the DOT’s price
• Forecast Alternates start as awarded when the totals match
• Custom Bid Tabs Importing a priced file keeps $0 lines and flags every $0 price
• Document Analysis Search highlights each match on the page and stays open while you read
• Document Analysis Drag the edge of any panel to widen Review, Notepad, Log, and Ask
• Navigation Projects now sits just above Settings in the left menu
• Coverage Refreshed letting dates for 20 states, including Texas, California, North Carolina, Florida, and Pennsylvania

Fixes

• Rough In Import from Rough In carries over the letting date
• Similar Bids Margins and markups show only the values you entered
• Forecast Contributing Bids shows your saved numbers right after you save and recalculate

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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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