How to manually add new bids to your Bid Board (Bid Board Pro)

As a subcontractor, there are two ways to add new bids to your Bid Board so that you can track all the bids for your company in one central location:

1. Forward invites from your inbox to BuildingConnected (Bid Board Pro) 
2. Manually create a new bid in your Bid Board

This article will teach you how to manually create a new bid in your Bid Board. 

To create a manual bid invite

There are two ways to start manually adding a new bid:

1. Press the “N” key on your keyboard while in your Bid Board.  
2. Navigate to your Bid Board then click on the “+ Bid Invite” button. 

In the panel that appear, type in the project name. 





(Optional) Enter in the name or email of the client. If their contact information is existing in the network, select it from the drop-down menu.

If not existing, click "Add '[name]' to as a client contact". Fill out the name, email, company, and office address to create a new contact. Once complete, click “Save” and you can continue filling out other bid information.

If you have multiple clients you are submitting your bid to, you can add multiple clients to create a group with multiple opportunities. Click on “Add another client”.  

Note: BuildingConnected does not notify the client when their information is added. This information is only visible to your team. 

 
Once complete, click “Save”.



A notification will appear at the bottom right letting you know that the bid invite has been added. Click on “View opportunity” to be taken to the manually created bid. 

All bids created in this workflow will have the "Manual" label.