About the company
About BidMate
Built for contractors who would rather spend time pricing than pushing paperwork.
Our Mission
Help civil construction contractors build tenders faster and more effectively — so more time goes into pricing the work, and less into clerical busywork.
BidMate is estimating software built specifically for civil construction general contractors and subcontractors.
It's more than a place to load a schedule of prices. BidMate is designed to help take a tender from documents to a complete, priced bid with less retyping, fewer spreadsheet workarounds, and less time spent setting up every new job.
Built for the whole team
BidMate is a shared company workspace — not a one-person spreadsheet. Estimators, project leads, and field staff can open the same tender and keep the bid moving without emailing “final_v7” around the office.
- One shared tender — your whole company works from the same bid
- Office and field together — desk and phone stay on the same schedule of prices
- Company library for everyone — productions, crew types, materials, and subcontractors live in the firm’s workspace
- Clean handoffs — pass the bid mid-estimate without exporting and re-importing files
Your company library is ready to work
BidMate isn't an empty spreadsheet you rebuild for every tender. Your company database comes prepared with the building blocks estimators actually use — so each new bid starts from strength, not from a blank page.
- Productions — proven production rates ready to apply to the work
- Crew types — labour and equipment crews already structured for how you bid
- Materials — material categories and pricing you can pull straight onto pay items
- Subcontractors — sub scopes and mark-ups managed in the same bid flow
You refine and own this library as your firm — then carry it from tender to tender instead of recreating it every time.
What That Means Day to Day
Work the bid as a team.
Multiple people in your company can open the same tender — estimators pricing, leads reviewing, field staff checking items — without splintering into separate files.
Build the bid in one place.
Once the schedule is loaded, pull from your company library — rates, markups, crews, productions, materials, equipment, and subcontractors — all in the same bid.
Cut down tender setup time.
Reduce the clerical work between receiving a tender and having a bid ready to review and submit. The heavy setup is already in your database.
Start every tender with your shop ready.
Productions, crew types, materials, and subcontractors stay loaded in your company workspace so you price work instead of rebuilding lists.
Estimate wherever the work takes you.
Keep your estimating process accessible whether you're at the desk or out in the field — same company data, same bid.
Built From Construction Experience
BidMate was built by a Canadian company with more than 20 years of experience in the Ontario and Canadian construction industry.
That experience shapes how BidMate works. The focus is on practical estimating for real construction tenders — not software designed in isolation from the people who actually price and build the work.
Whether you're a general contractor putting together the entire tender or a subcontractor pricing your scope, the goal is the same:
Build a clearer, more complete bid in less time — and spend fewer hours on the paperwork around it.