AI for Construction Bidding
Run custom searches across construction tenders and bids
Upload your tender specs, contracts, drawings and site investigations to run custom pre-scripted searches to understand project requirements & risks.
Instantly answer questions about all your documents
Workflow overview
Task description:
- Bidding teams need to read through thousands of pages of tender documents to determine a bid / no-bid decision.
- Upload your tender documents and use this template to enter custom searches criteria across the bid package documents to provide answers supported by references.
Who is this template for:
Bidding Manager
Project Manager
Bid Team
Input(s):
Tender Specs
Contracts
As-builts
Site investigations
Plans
HSE Docs
Output(s):
Excel
Word
Power BI Dashboard
How to use this workflow
Step 1
Create a project and upload your documents
We keep all your data secure & private.
- Create a new project or select from a project already existing on your account.
- Click the 'upload documents' dropdown and drag and drop the documents you want to use in this workflow.
Step 2
Select the workflow template and add your custom searches
- Click the workflows tab and select the workflow you need to use.
- Check that the input documents select are the files you want to reference.
- Customise any steps in the workflow if needed and save your own version of the template. View all templates
Step 3
Run your AI workflow and view or download results
- Click run to generate results automatically, all results are sent to the 'Ouputs' tab in your project.
- After the workflow has finished running you will be notified by email and you can view the output of the task.
- View references to trace results to the original source.
Civils.ai case study
Example of the savings over 3 months on the design of a $520 million infrastructure project.
473
AI prompts
"We mainly use Civils.ai for retrieving information across multiple of our 400+ page tender specifications helping us check our proposals."
15 minutes
saved per prompt
"As a conservative estimate we saved 15 minutes per prompt, in certain cases like when questions arise during site visits it has saved us significantly more than this."
89%
results accuracy
"Auto checking our plans against tender specs is a game changer, the only improvement in accuracy we would like to see is more data captured from CAD drawings."
10x
return on investment
"You can't put a ROI on promoting project safety, but this is based upon the efficiency time cost saving and not considering any rework savings."
Extra features
Use a library of pre-built workflows
- Select a workflow from the gallery of pre-built templates
- Update the template to add or remove steps which the AI needs to complete
- Run the workflow to start generating results automatically
Share your custom app with others
- Save the AI workflow to your team account
- Give others in your team permission to run your workflow
- Share outputs and your results with others in your team
Connect data between tools via API
- Get started by manually uploading documents to your AI workflow.
- Automate everything further by connecting your workflow into your existing software.
- Pull information in via API or push results back into your other software.
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