I'm a Subcontractor or Supplier
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List subcontractors that are pricing tenders and list subcontractors that have been awarded work
It would be most helpful if I could track which subcontractors do work for particular builders, therefore when a contract is awarded I can go to those subcontractors and offer them a price.
Additionally when a project is at tender a list of which subcontractors are quoting would also be helpful96 votesHi Gillian,
Thanks for this feedback, much appreciated. We can see how it would be useful information for you. We’ve got this in our pipeline, we’ll be working away to get this available for you soon!
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Provide contact details of the CA once the project has been awarded
Would be great if the CA's details were provided so you don't have to go through the estimator once the project has been handed over to Management team.
65 votesHi Eman,
We understand that being able to contact the delivery team once a project has been awarded is important. We are currently reviewing the best way to share this kind of information in a timely fashion. Thank you for your suggestion! -
It would be great if we could get a short blurb on what the project is.
For instance 5 storey apartment or 6 townhouses or Bridge construction or whatever. This will enable us to filter out the projects we are not interested in very quickly.
35 votesWe understand the value this would have to you. We give builders the option to provide a short blurb, though they may not be inputting this at tender stage themselves. We will review your feedback and see if we can find a way to do this. Thank you!
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Company profile
It would be great to enter our company profile. This would make it easier for potential business partners to understand our core services and competences.
32 votesHi Daniel,
Thanks for taking the time to share your idea, this is something we’ve been thinking about too. If you’d be interested in helping, we might be in touch over the coming months to have a chat with you about how you’d see this working.
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Allocate names against projects to see who is looking after the project
When you have multiple people under the one company name working within estimate one, would be good to allocate names to particular projects on the invitation & watchlist screens.
30 votesThanks for the suggestion! We are looking into how to give teams greater control over their watchlist and invitations, including allocating them to users within company accounts.
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Allow me to quickly send EOI's to Builders with a click or 2
BCI recently came out with the following feature: "You can now send Expressions of Interest to active Builders on projects you're interested in with just two clicks. Save yourself the time and effort of sending EOI's to each individual Builder via email and simply select the Builders you'd like to send to on TenderManager and submit your EOI with ease."
Although I can express Interest by downloading docs on E1, that only goes across to the builder whose docs I am accessing. it would save a lot of time if I could then send an EOI to the other builders…
30 votesThanks for the suggestion, we are currently investigating the best way to enable subcontractors to submit an Expression of Interest to all active builders while not promoting a culture of spamming.
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Make it easier to Keep track of tenders to submit
At present I have no way other than the watch tick which is very vague to keep track of tenders to quote. The system needs to allow me to look at a tender decide if I am going to quote or not. Once I decide to quote it will only keep those ones in my folder, like bidcontender. Your system may be great for the Ones listing tenders but it is not very good for those who wish to tender. To be honest using it is driving me crazy!!!
27 votesHi Stuart,
Thanks for the suggestion. We’re currently investigating how we can improve the Watchlist for Subcontractors and Suppliers. We’ll keep you posted on our progress.
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25 votes
Thank you everyone for the comments and feedback here, we completely understand the value that integration would provide. It’s something we’d love to do, but will take some time to figure out the best approach, it appears there are a lot of different tools people want to integrate with! Thank you for the suggestions, they are certainly taken on board by the team here.
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If I decline a quote, I would like an opportunity of explaining why, e.g, Too far (Out of our area).
Project DECLINE option
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Include the address & description of the project in the 'Invitation to Tender' email
Currently, Subbies only see the job name and closing date in the invitation email.
The Project Description is available on the Document Download page, but it should also be included in the invitation email.
14 votesThanks for putting your support behind this idea. We certainly agree that providing Subcontractors with more information about a project will better inform their decision to submit a price for the tender. When seeking to implement suggestions like this we will always try to to keep the experience as simple as possible and want to ensure we aren’t overloading the Subcontractors with information. We’ll put this in the mix with all the other ideas, thank you!
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Search Surburb category removed - please bring back.
Regarding your recent website update - I strongly do not like that the Suburb category has been removed. Please consider a reinstall.
I search for jobs by Suburb to find out all builders tendering, as projects are often listed by 2 or 3 different names and it helps to identify duplicated projects and all of the tenderers.
13 votesHi Pam, thanks again for your feedback and time. As discussed, I’ve flagged this with our product manager. We are currently working on a fix for this! ! Kind regards, Morgan.
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Have an email alert sent out when specific builders you choose have new Tenders available
Have an email alert sent out when specific builders you choose have new Tenders available
13 votesHi Nick,
This is a great idea, we can certainly see value in being able to follow your favourite builders. Thank yo for the suggestion, we’ll look into how we could do this. -
Show me if I have already accessed a package when I select to download a package from a Builder
When I select a package I have downloaded previously it gives me the option to download or request.
Previously EstimateOne used to tell you whether you had already looked at the package. This is helpful as it would allow me to quickly tell when viewing a New Tender if I have already downloaded it from the Builder and in turn will save me from downloading it again
12 votesThanks for taking time out to post this feedback. We appreciate this would help save you time, we’ll take this into consideration as part of the ongoing improvements to the platform.
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Designate Projects which are D&C or specified.
I am thinking for Mechanical Services but it may apply to other services.
12 votesThanks for the great suggestion. We understand how knowing if a project is D&C or specified will assist in finding relevant tenders.
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Keep the status consistent across all tabs and update all when a status changes
The status should consistent across the different tabs and updated as any status changes for Tndrs, Awds, WL, Inv & Rqts. e.g. common set of status options and if any status on any tab is altered then the change is reflected everywhere.
9 votesHi, we are currently looking into how the Watchlist and Invitations & Requests tab should interact. If it is alright with you, we’d love to get in touch to ask a few questions?
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Access Finishes Schedules first
Most of our work is through Joiners. To see if Solid Surface materials
have been specified we have to request the Joinery Package and then view the Finishes Schuedule.The Builder then asks us to quote the whole package which is annoying and time consuming for them as I'm only looking to see if
solid surface has been specifiedIt would be great of we could access the Finishes Schedules first or if Projects could be tagged
9 votesHi Sue,
Thanks for the suggestion. We will look into the best way to make this possible and meaningful to you. Stay tuned!
In the meantime, we suggest using the “specification search” to look for “Solid Surface” or specific brands which will search all documents uploaded to EstimateOne for you. -
'Tender won' knowledge - allow E1 users to advise E1
Let your users advise E1 that a tender has been won by a contractor... ie provide an option for a user to communicate to E1 the market information they have been provided. E1 would then have the opportunity to prompt the tender manager or contact them directly. The policy could be to have 2 weeks to confirm as often further negotiations may delay announcement.
9 votesHi Jordan,
This is a great suggestion, we will look into what is required to enable our members to provide market information. -
Highlight Losing Builders' details in Red on main Tenders page
When a tender is marked as Awarded, the builders' details are highlighted in Green.
For tenders that are still Open or Recently Closed (not yet Awarded), but have been Lost by some tendering builders, it would be helpful if the details of the Losing Builders were highlighted in Red on the main page.This would help identify very quickly which builders are out & which are still quoting.
9 votesThanks for the feedback, we can see how being able to quickly identify the status of various builders would be helpful, we’ll look into a way to make this information more accessible.
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Make it more obvious when documentation is added
Hi, I download lots of documents from EstimateOne but there is no real notifier for when a contractor adds them. I know there is a little PDF icon, but a lot of the time it's hard to keep track of what I have and haven't already downloaded.
It would be great if the PDF logo could appear differently when the documents have been added within the last 24 hours. Something as subtle as having the PDF icon be coloured orange instead of red for this period would be really useful.
Also, an indicator on the main page referencing whether I've…
9 votesThanks for the suggestion. We are always looking into we can help our users identify the status of relevant tenders quicker.
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Extra options on drop down tab
Current drop down tab has , interested, quoting, quoted. Would be great to have more options so that it is easier to manage the status of the quote as a contractor, such as have documents, awaiting documents, etc etc
8 votesHi Derek, we are currently exploring the ways the Watchlist and Invitations and Requests tabs work. This will be one of the options that we will be considering.
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