The process · RFP to bid package

How an RFP becomes a submission-ready bid package

Five steps take a commercial landscape tender from upload to a complete, checked package for submission, with your team approving every critical gate. Rapid Extraction → AI Site Mapping → Estimator + AI control plane → Bid Package help.

1Upload

Drop in the full tender package.

Add your RFP and everything that came with it: addenda, site plans, and bid forms. It all lands in one bid workspace. Your team reviews what was ingested before extraction moves forward.

Everything in one place

Hundreds of pages across multiple files live together instead of scattered folders.

You stay in control

Review what Quoterra read before extraction starts, so nothing gets missed or misread.

Your tender package

Drop the full package

RFP, addenda, plans, and forms together

RFP-2026-114-Main.pdf247 pages
Addendum-01.pdf12 pages
Site-Plans.pdf34 pages
Bid-Forms.pdf8 forms
You review everything before the next step
2Extract

AI reads hundreds of pages so your team doesn't have to.

Insurance, bonding, service scope, timelines, and required forms are pulled into structured requirements, organized for review and tied back to source pages (including Quoterra's 17-category model where applicable).

Never miss a requirement

Obligations buried on page 180 surface next to the ones on page 3.

Source beside the answer

Estimators confirm each extracted requirement against the original PDF context.

Ask the package anything

Search deadlines, addenda, or qualifications without rereading the packet.

Requirement extraction

RFP Package
InsuranceGL $5M required
BondingPerformance $2.5M
Service scope14 maintenance zones
TimelineSubmission in 45 days
Forms8 documents required
Every answer stays linked to its source page
3Map & Measure

Measure with AI, boundaries and objects your team approves.

Addresses from the RFP become mapped sites. Your team confirms geocodes and draws boundaries; then AI Site Mapping segments landscape assets (grass, trees, shrubs, and related objects) into measured quantities from visual evidence, not hand-tracing alone.

Sites found automatically

Extracted addresses geocoded into map placements ready for review.

Boundaries stay in your hands

Measurement only runs on areas your team has drawn and approved.

Quantities from visual evidence

Grass, trees, and shrubs labeled from satellite imagery with human gates.

Site measurement

2,400 sq ft turf47 trees180 shrubs
You approve boundaries before measurement runs
4Estimate

Quantities flow into the estimate, with AI control plane assist.

Measured zones become editable line items connected to a shared activity catalog, with live totals and margin visible while pricing decisions are made. The AI control plane suggests and fills line-item detail from RFP context + mapped quantities. Your team locks the estimate when the numbers are ready.

No retyping into spreadsheets

Line items stay linked to the mapped zones and quantities that produced them.

Margin in view

Live totals and margin summaries before the bid is finalized.

Lock it when it's ready

Finalize the estimate milestone and carry the same context into Bid Package.

Estimate workspace

Zone
Type
Qty
Unit
Total
Zone A
Mowing
2,400
sq ft
$192.00
Zone B
Trees
47
ea
$2,115.00
Zone C
Shrubs
180
ea
$2,160.00
Total Est.
$4,467.00
Margin28%
You lock the estimate when the numbers are ready
5Bid Package

Help generate the final bid package for submission.

AI builds a submission inventory from the RFP. Fill and annotate forms in the browser, connect company documents, then export a verified package ready for portal upload. This is assistive packaging, not a claim of full e-sign, CRM, or crew-ops parity with landscape suites.

Know what must be included

Required forms detected from the RFP so nothing surfaces only at the deadline.

Forms filled without the retyping

AI-assisted form fill reuses extracted bid and company data.

Verified before it ships

Exported package checked against requirements and company documents first.

Submission package

Bid Form
Insurance Cert
Bonding Letter
Site Map
Estimate

bid-package.zip

5 documents, checked against the RFP

Bid Ready

You approve the gates. AI does the heavy lifting.

GateWhat you approve
After UploadParsed intake / package completeness
After ExtractRequirements worth carrying forward
After MapGeocodes and service boundaries
After MeasureObject/quantity outputs before estimate
After EstimateLocked numbers before package
Before exportPackage contents vs RFP inventory

Quoterra prepares the work and carries bid context forward. Your estimating desk keeps judgment.

Works with your current stack

Quoterra is the AI bid front-end for commercial landscapers. Keep Aspire, LMN, SingleOps, or your takeoff source of record when they're already in place; hand off from the package and estimate context. Don't rip the stack on day one.

Walk the loop on your next live RFP

Request a demo. We'll run Upload → Extract → Map & Measure → Estimate → Bid Package on a real commercial landscape package. Sales-guided beta, US & Canada.