The process - RFP to submission

How an RFP becomes a winning bid.

Five steps take a tender package from upload to a complete, compliant submission, with your team approving every critical gate.

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 workspace, and your team checks it over before anything moves forward.

Everything in one place

No more digging through folders. Hundreds of pages across multiple files live together in one bid workspace.

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 across 17 categories, each tied back to its source page.

Never miss a requirement

Obligations buried on page 180 surface next to the ones on page 3, organized for review.

Source beside the answer

Estimators confirm each extracted requirement against the original PDF context.

Ask the package anything

Search where the RFP mentions deadlines, addenda, or qualifications without rereading it.

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 entire properties in minutes.

Addresses from the RFP become mapped sites. Your team draws the boundaries, then satellite AI segments turf, trees, and shrubs into measured quantities.

Sites found automatically

Extracted addresses are 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 are labeled from satellite imagery, not guessed from a site visit.

Site measurement

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

Quantities flow straight into your estimate.

Measured zones become editable line items connected to a shared activity catalog, with live totals and margin visible while pricing decisions are made.

No retyping into spreadsheets

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

Margin in view, always

Live totals and margin summaries keep pricing honest before the bid is finalized.

Lock it when it's ready

Finalize the estimate milestone and carry the same context into the submission.

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
5Submit

Assemble a complete, compliant bid package.

AI builds a submission inventory from the RFP. Fill and sign forms in the browser, then export a verified package ready for the portal upload.

Know what must be included

Required forms are detected from the RFP so nothing is discovered at the deadline.

Forms filled without the retyping

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

Verified before it ships

The exported ZIP is 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

Spend less time reading. More time winning.