Green Bay Bid Review
Vonnahme Construction
Vonnahme Construction Carroll, Iowa
Buck 712-210-2099
Adam 712-830-4453

Bid Draft, Ready For Your Review

Scooter's Coffee, 1302 E. Mason Street, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Every quantity below was read off the civil set: Mau & Associates project D-221, drawing S-3416, ten sheets, dated 4/27/21. The items at the top are the ones the drawings do not answer, so they are yours. Fill in your unit prices and the bid totals itself.

Needs your input  

These are not gaps in the reading. They are the things this engineer left off the set, and every one of them is a judgment call you would be making anyway.

How thick is the granular base under the pavement?
The set has no pavement section. Anywhere. Only the 3/4 inch bedding under pipe is specified, and that is for the trench. Pavement area is 11,369 sq ft.
Line 11 is blank until you pick
How deep are you stripping topsoil?
Not specified. Disturbance is 0.39 acres across two areas, 16,988 sq ft total, including the small southwest parcel.
Line 8 is blank until you pick
What are you carrying for cut and fill?
The grading sheet gives spot elevations and contours, not two surfaces, so a volume cannot be computed from the PDF. Existing runs 115.87 to 117.08, finished floor is 117.65, so the site takes fill. If we get the Civil 3D file from Mau this one becomes automatic.
Line 9 is blank until you enter it
Are you pricing the concrete, or just the dirt?
Curb, pavement, sidewalk and the dumpster pad are all quantified and sitting in the schedule. Whether they are yours is a scope call, not something the drawings decide.

Quantity schedule

ItemQtyUnitRead fromYour unit priceAmount
Bid total so far $0

Vonnahme Construction, Carroll, Iowa Draft from plans. Not a proposal until you say it is.

What you are looking at. One civil set went in. Of the twenty five bid lines, twenty two came out with a quantity already on them, and every one shows the sheet it was read from so you can check any of it in about ten seconds. The three at the top are the ones this engineer did not put on the plans at all, and those are the ones worth your time.

The other piece

The bid form itself

This is the form Buck would actually work in, and it is running live below. He types into the panel on the left, the proposal on the right redraws as he goes, and the print button saves it as a PDF he can email or hand across a desk. Your company information, phone numbers and standard terms are already loaded, so the only thing anyone enters is the job.

Try it. Change the client name, add a line item, delete one, hit print. Nothing here is fixed. Sections, wording, the standard terms, the line item shortcuts, all of it gets set to whatever you two want it to say.

Open the bid form in its own tab

Draft layout, built off your Breda proposal. The real version lives behind a login so every bid is saved by client and job, and Buck can pull an old one back up instead of starting over.