Excel + Consight

Keep Excel. Stop retyping bids into it.

Consight imports your Excel estimate or takeoff, reads every subcontractor bid whether it arrives as a PDF, spreadsheet or Word file, levels it on one scope sheet, and exports a clean bid tab back to Excel whenever you need it.

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Consight scope sheet comparing three subcontractor bids line by line, ready to export to Excel

Excel in, Excel out. The retyping in between goes away.

Upload your internal estimate or takeoff from Excel, Bluebeam or OST and Consight turns each line into a scope item. Bids arrive as PDFs, spreadsheets, Word documents or scans, and Consight reads them onto the same scope sheet, with every extracted number traced back to the proposal. When you need a spreadsheet for the owner or your files, export the scope sheet or the whole project to Excel.

See the scope sheet

A leveled scope line shown beside the original subcontractor proposal with the matching text highlighted

What Consight does with your spreadsheets

Imports internal estimates and takeoffs from Excel
Reads takeoffs from Bluebeam and OST
Reads subcontractor bids sent as Excel, PDF or Word
Turns each estimate line into a scope item
Maps every bidder line back to your scope
Structured math instead of fragile formulas
Shows the source behind every extracted number
Exports a scope sheet or full project to Excel

Generate the scope sheet before bid day.

Clear scope before the bids go out makes leveling easier when they come back. Import the estimate you already built in Excel, or upload the plans and specifications and Consight drafts your subcontractor scope sheet. Add company standards and estimator judgment, then level every bid against that same scope.

See scope generation

Generating a subcontractor scope of work for an earthwork bid package in Consight

How it works

From spreadsheet to leveled bid tab

Import your estimate
Upload your Excel estimate or takeoff when you create the bid package, or click Import Scope inside the scope sheet.
Upload bids as they arrive
Drop in PDFs, spreadsheets or Word files. Each bid is processed in about a minute and gets its own bidder column.
Run Level Bids
Consight matches every bidder item to your scope and sorts inclusions, exclusions, alternates and qualifications.
Export to Excel
Export a scope sheet or the full project whenever you need a spreadsheet. Your data stays in Consight.

Side by side

Excel bid tabs and Consight do different jobs

Setting up the tab
Excel bid tabRetype line items for every package
ConsightImport your estimate, scope lines created for you
A new bid arrives
Excel bid tabCopy, paste and re-check formulas
ConsightRead and mapped to your scope automatically
Exclusions
Excel bid tabBuried in the proposal until someone reads it
ConsightPulled out and shown on the line they affect
Where a number came from
Excel bid tabWhoever typed it
ConsightView in Bid jumps to the source
Several estimators at once
Excel bid tabEmailed copies and version conflicts
ConsightOne live scope sheet with autosave
The final bid tab
Excel bid tabRebuilt by hand
ConsightExported to Excel

Not ready to give up the spreadsheet?

You don’t have to. Consight imports what you already have and exports back to Excel, so estimators keep the format they know while the reading, matching and plugging happen on one scope sheet.

Read the Excel bid tab alternative

Estimator reviewing plans instead of retyping subcontractor bids into Excel

Built for the realities of subcontractor bid leveling

Last-minute bids, leveled without retyping the bid tab
Revised bids compared without losing earlier versions
Exclusions that make the low bidder not actually low
Scope gaps between bidders and trades, caught before buyout
Alternates and breakouts kept apart from the base bid
Bid citations to verify every AI-extracted number
Plugs and adjustments that preserve the original price
One live scope sheet for every estimator on the job
Excel exports whenever you need them

Consight gives our team a more consistent way to catch scope gaps before award.

Hennie van Niekerk, Preconstruction Manager

Excel and bid leveling FAQ

Can Consight import my Excel estimate?

Yes. Upload it while creating a bid package, or click Import Scope inside the scope sheet. Consight reads files from Excel, Bluebeam, OST and similar tools and turns the lines into scope items.

Can Consight read subcontractor bids sent in Excel?

Yes. Consight reads PDF, Excel and Word documents, plus screenshots and scanned pages, and puts every bid on the same scope sheet.

Can I export from Consight to Excel?

Yes. Download a bid package's scope sheet, or the master scope sheet for the whole project, with a summary sheet inside, as Excel. Exporting never removes anything from Consight.

Is there an Excel bid leveling template?

A workable bid tab (bid tabulation sheet) puts your scope lines in rows and one column per bidder, with rows for exclusions, alternates, and plugs for missing scope, and a leveled total that adds the plugs to each base bid. Consight builds that sheet for you as bids are read into it, and exports it as an Excel workbook with live formulas.

Is Consight a replacement for Excel bid tabs?

For bid leveling, yes. The scope sheet replaces the copying, pasting and formula checking done in Excel, and every line stays editable by the estimator.

Do my estimators have to stop using Excel?

No. Keep Excel for the work it does well. Consight handles reading proposals and leveling, and exports back to Excel when you need it.

Does it work with BuildingConnected and Procore too?

Yes. Import projects from BuildingConnected or Procore, level the bids in Consight, and export to Excel.

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