For construction, capital projects, and procurement teams
Contractor bids restated line by line against the scope and against what you have actually paid.
Why it matters
A low bid is only low if it covers the same scope as the others.
1.2B
sqft of enterprise operations run on REAL
8M+
tasks completed across enterprise portfolios
14%
average cost reduction across portfolio
Bids arrive as PDFs, spreadsheets, and text in the body of an email, in no shared format. They get structured into comparable line items without anyone retyping them.
Bids received
Formats
no shared structure
Structured automatically
Manual entry
The lowest number is usually the one missing a line item. Every bid is mapped against the scope and restated on a like-for-like basis before anyone compares price.
Contractor A
scope complete
Contractor B
excludes demolition · −$25K
Contractor C
excludes permit fees
Portfolio average, last 3 yrs
Your own build history is the strongest benchmark available. Each line is compared against comparable work across the portfolio, then against market rates, and flagged when it sits outside range.
Flooring
portfolio avg $11.80 · +20%
Electrical
portfolio median $58,400 · in range
Millwork
in range
Shelving
in range
On-time completion, change order rate, and budget variance across every project a vendor has run for you. The bid and the track record arrive in the same view.
Projects completed
Delivered on schedule
Change orders
Budget variance
An exclusion spotted during leveling is a change order waiting to happen. It gets logged against the project before the contract is signed rather than discovered after.
Contractor B excludes demolition → Scope & Change Orders
Gap logged before award
The REAL Suite
Each REAL agent is an expert in its domain, built to share context and act on what the others know. The more agents work in your portfolio, the more complete each one’s view of it becomes, and the stronger every decision your team makes.
Bid Evaluation
Bid leveling is restating every contractor bid so the totals cover the same scope and can be compared fairly. Bidders exclude different items, carry different allowances, and describe the same work differently, so raw totals are not comparable. Leveling normalises them before anyone makes a decision on price.
Bids come in as PDFs, spreadsheets, and email text with no shared structure. Each is read, its line items mapped to the project scope, its exclusions and allowances identified, and its total restated on a like-for-like basis alongside the others.
Your own build history first, since comparable work you have already paid for is the strongest reference available, then market rates. Each line is flagged when it falls outside the range for similar work across the portfolio.
On delivered outcomes across every project a vendor has run for you: on-time completion rate, change orders as a share of contract value, and average budget variance. The score sits next to the bid rather than in a separate system someone has to go and check.
Most enterprise construction teams could build parts of it. The question is usually whether they will, given the queue. What takes the time is not the analysis but the unglamorous work underneath it: reading bids in four formats, mapping line items to scope across trades, and maintaining a cost history clean enough to benchmark against. Teams that build it internally tend to get the dashboard and not the data pipeline.
No. Those systems run the process. REAL does the analysis inside it, which is the part that stays manual today: structuring incoming bids, levelling them, benchmarking each line, and scoring the bidders.
REAL runs in a single tenant on your data, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, and your data is never used to train any model. Your cost history is never shared across tenants.
See REAL level a real bid set from one of your own projects.