Bid History is pricing intelligence for construction bids. See what vendors actually charge for a given scope in your market, set realistic budgets, and spot the outlier bid instantly.
Launching soon. Early access members get the Q1 scope report free.
Illustrative sample. Live ranges are built from collected bids, refreshed as projects close.
| Scope | Market | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full roof replacement, 5,000 sq ft | Queens | $24/sq ft | $18 - $33 |
| Electrical panel upgrade, 200A | Manhattan | $8,900 | $6,400 - $12,200 |
| Boiler replacement, 40-unit building | Brooklyn | $96,000 | $74,000 - $128,000 |
| Facade repointing, per sq ft | Manhattan | $42 | $31 - $58 |
| Bathroom renovation, per unit | Bronx | $14,500 | $10,000 - $21,000 |
Sample illustration. Live ranges are built from collected bid data.
Built for general contractors and property managers running capital projects.
Search any scope: roofing, electrical, boiler, facade, interiors. See the median, the 25th/75th range, and the trend for your market before you set a budget.
The budget-check tool prices your scope against the index. You issue the RFP with a number backed by real bids, not last year's memory.
Enter the bids that come in: line items, totals, which vendor won. Vendor names are anonymized before anything is stored.
On Pro plans, every new bid is checked against the index automatically. A bid 40% above the 75th percentile gets flagged before you award it.
Every project entered tightens the ranges for the next one. Subscribers who contribute get the dataset that everyone else pays for.
The incumbent is a senior estimator's memory. The index is the whole market's memory.
Not book rates, not national averages with multipliers. Bids collected from real projects in your market this quarter.
Set budgets from data instead of memory. Owners take data-backed budgets seriously.
Every bid is checked against the index on entry (Pro plans). Overpriced bids get flagged before the signature goes on the contract.
Price-position history per vendor, anonymized. See how a bidder's pricing tracks against the market over time.
Ranges segmented by scope, market, and building type. A Queens roof is not a Manhattan roof, and the index knows it.
Each logged project sharpens the ranges. A dataset built from years of bids is one no newcomer can backfill.
Monthly or annual (2 months free). Every tier is the real product.
Cancel anytime by emailing hello@bidhistorydata.com. Annual plans are refundable within the first 30 days.
Subscribers log the bids they collect on their own projects, and AlignBid users can import bid data with one click. Vendor names are anonymized before anything enters the index. Launch ranges are seeded from public NYC job filing cost data.
You never share identifiable data. Vendors, projects, and companies are anonymized; you see only aggregated ranges. And contributors get the full index: the data you put in comes back as market intelligence worth far more than one project's bids.
RSMeans publishes national average costs with multipliers. Bid History publishes what vendors in your market actually bid last quarter. One is a book, the other is the market.
New York City launches first, segmented by borough and scope. More markets open as logged-project density crosses the anonymity threshold.
AlignBid users can import their collected bids into Bid History with one click, anonymized automatically. The two products are separate subscriptions that make each other stronger.
Join the waitlist for early access. Early access members get the Q1 scope report free.
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