Consight glossary

Short definitions for the words you will see around Consight. Each one links to the section where you can read more.

A to C

• Alternate: pricing or scope a bidder offers as an option, not part of their base price.
• Assignee: the teammate who owns a bid package. It appears on their to-do list.
• Base Bid: the price a subcontractor submitted, exactly as written on their proposal.
• Bid package: one trade or scope you are bidding out, with its own scope sheet and bidders.
• Bid revision: an updated proposal from a bidder that replaces the original in their column.
• Bidder column: the column in a scope sheet that holds one subcontractor’s items and pricing.
• Bidder item: a line pulled from a subcontractor’s proposal, in their own words.
• BidGrid: the Bid Packages tab. Your project-wide view of every package, its status, and the project total.
• Connie: the assistant built into Consight. She reads documents, builds packages, and drafts messages.
• Cost code: the code a bid package is tied to. Consight starts you with CSI MasterFormat.

E to L

• Exclusion: something a bidder said they left out of their price.
• File Manager: the Files tab in a project, where plans, specs, and bids are stored.
• Inclusion: something a bidder said is included in their price.
• Internal estimate: your own column in the scope sheet, listing the scope you expect and optionally its cost.
• Level Bids: the button that matches bidder items to your scope items. Also called Autocomplete.
• Leveled Price: your adjusted price for a bidder after plugs, corrections, and added scope.

N to S

• Needs Attention: the BidGrid filter that surfaces packages with statuses you have marked as urgent.
• Plug: an amount you add to a bidder’s Leveled Price to cover scope they missed, excluded, or underpriced.
• Qualification: a clarification, assumption, or condition a bidder attached to their price.
• Scope item: a line in your scope sheet describing work you intend to buy.
• Scope sheet: the page where your internal estimate and every bidder sit side by side for one package.
• Self award: giving a package to your own forces at your internal estimate price.
• Soft award: marking your chosen bidder for a package. Their price flows to the project total.
• Suggested Items: the tray where Consight puts bidder lines it could not confidently match.

T to W

• Template: a saved set of scope items or bid packages you can reuse on the next project.
• View in Bid: jumps from a bidder item to the exact spot in the proposal it came from.
• Workspace: a grouping of projects within your account, often one per office or region.