Masterworks Estimation & Bidding
Build accurate cost estimates and award contracts with complete transparency
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What is Masterworks Estimation & Bidding?
Every estimate influences budget confidence, procurement transparency, and project delivery. As construction costs fluctuate and competition tightens, government agencies need greater certainty before contracts are awarded. Material and tariff volatility further shrinks competition, driving up prices. Masterworks Estimation & Bidding helps government agencies create accurate engineers' estimates, run transparent procurements, and award contracts on a complete, audit-ready record that flows directly into construction delivery with no manual entry.
- Build cost estimates that hold up against volatile market conditions
- Run competitive, compliant procurements that attract qualified contractors
- Award every contract with a defensible, documented record
Benefits of Masterworks Estimation & Bidding
Move seamlessly from award to delivery
Estimate with confidence and not guesswork
Run transparent, compliant procurements
Award faster with a tenable record
Key features of Masterworks Estimation & Bidding
Benchmark costs using historical pricing intelligence
Compare estimates against historical bid prices, awarded contracts, and pricing trends to improve estimate accuracy.
Build accurate engineers' estimates
Create, manage, and revise engineers' estimates using standardized bid items, pricing data, and controlled workflows.
Manage bid solicitations and contractor submissions digitally
Advertise solicitations, distribute bid documents, receive contractor submissions through a secure online bidding portal, and manage bidder communications digitally.
Evaluate bids and award contracts confidently
Automate bid tabulation, compare submissions against engineer's estimates, and support transparent award decisions.
Carry awarded contracts directly into construction delivery
Hand off the awarded contract, bid items, and quantities into construction management with no duplicate data entry.
Manage DBE/MWBE goals and compliance
Set participation goals on solicitations, evaluate contractor commitments and good-faith efforts, and maintain a documented record for every award.
Integrate seamlessly across multiple platforms
You don’t have to change your legacy systems. Our products seamlessly integrate with over 100+ tools
Integrate seamlessly across multiple platforms
You don’t have to change your legacy systems. Our products seamlessly integrate with over 100+ tools.
Is Masterworks Estimation & Bidding for you?
Estimation & Bidding is designed for public agencies managing capital construction procurement under competitive bidding rules. It helps government agencies replace disconnected estimating and procurement processes with one governed workflow that connects pre-construction directly to project delivery.
Estimating engineers and cost managers
Build accurate, defensible cost estimates using historical unit price data, reducing the gap between the engineer’s estimate and actual bid prices, and the budget surprises that follow.
Procurement officers and contracts managers
Run transparent, compliant bid processes at scale managing multiple simultaneous procurements through an online contractor portal with automated tabulation and a complete award audit trail.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Estimation & Bidding actually cover?
The full pre-award lifecycle from engineers’ cost estimates and bid item definition through bid advertisement, contractor submissions, tabulation, evaluation, and contract award in one governed, auditable system.
How does historical unit price data improve estimates?
Estimating engineers can search unit prices from past estimates, awarded contracts, and bid submissions to benchmark every line item against real market data, reducing the gap between estimates and actual bid prices.
How is this different from AASHTOWare Project?
AASHTOWare Project is the long-standing system many DOTs use for estimating and letting, and it does that job well. The difference is connection and experience: Masterworks handles estimating, bidding, and award in one modern platform and carries the awarded contract, items, quantities, and cost baseline, straight into construction, with no re-keying and no siloed hand-offs between preconstruction and delivery. You also get historical pricing intelligence to sharpen every estimate and audit-ready, protest-ready documentation behind each award.
How does it support contract award decisions?
Automated bid tabulation, side-by-side bid-to-estimate comparison, and regression analysis produce a clear, data-backed award recommendation with complete documentation, ready for oversight bodies, auditors, and formal bid protests.
Does it connect to Construction Project Management?
Contract items and the cost baseline established at award flow directly into Masterworks CPM, no re-keying, no misalignment, and no delays between procurement and construction execution.
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