Price tenders faster, and win more of the ones you price.
Find open tenders and answer the ones you are invited to, free, in construction or any other industry. Every request arrives ready to price, AI checks your bid before you send it, and after every decision you learn where you finished and why.
Free to answer. Three bids a month on the free plan, no card.
- Free to start, no card
- Your data stays yours
- Suppliers respond free
What is tender software for subcontractors?
It is where the packages you price arrive, get priced and go back. Instead of a PDF and a spreadsheet by email, the contractor's BoQ arrives with its sections, items, quantities and drawings in place. You price the lines, check the bid before you send it, ask your questions where every bidder gets the same answer, and keep every submission in one place. On VEXORS the same free account also answers RFQs, RFPs and tenders from buyers outside construction.
Priced on the contractor's lines
The package arrives with the contractor's sections, items and quantities already set out, and the drawings and specification for your trade attached. You enter rates instead of retyping a BoQ, so your number is read exactly the way you priced it.
Checked before you send
One click runs a quality check on your bid: lines left at zero, lines you did not price, required questions unanswered, answers too thin to score. It also lists what to clarify with the contractor before the deadline, each point a click from the tender's Q&A.
Free to answer
Answering tenders costs nothing: no subscription and no fee per bid. The free plan covers three bids a month, Grow covers fifteen and Scale has no limit, for firms that bid at volume or tender their own suppliers.
Find work you were not invited to.
Contractors and buyers can list a tender in the open directory, and anyone can browse it without an account: what is being tendered, the category, how many lines it has and when it closes. Register free to open the full request and send a structured bid. Construction packages sit beside tenders from every other category, so a supplier to one industry finds work in the others too.
- Browse live tenders without an account
- The category, the number of lines and the closing date on every card
- Construction packages beside tenders from every other industry
- Register free to open the full request and bid
What changes when you price on VEXORS
The contractor's BoQ, already in place.
The package arrives with its sections, items and quantities set out, and the drawings and specification for your trade attached as reference documents. You see the package you were invited to, never the rest of the contractor's BoQ. Enter your rates in the browser. Where the contractor asks for one price for a section, you price the lines as your breakdown and enter the section price, and the two must agree. No retyping someone else's spreadsheet into yours.
- Your package only, with its drawings and specification attached
- Unit rates, or a lump sum where the contractor asks for one
- Lines you do not price marked as such, never left to guesswork
- Every bid you send kept in one place, in English or Arabic
Catch your own gaps before the contractor does.
Before you submit, run the quality check. It reads your bid against the tender and sorts what it finds into what you must fix, what would make the bid stronger, and what to clarify before you commit a price. The clarifications are the assumptions that would otherwise sit inside your number, and each one is a click from the tender's Q&A. The check is advice, not a gate: you decide what to change, and nothing is sent until you submit.
- Must fix: required answers missing, a section delivery date left blank, a price on a line with no quantity
- To confirm: lines priced at zero or not bid, answers too thin to score, a tender amended since you last saved
- Clarify before you bid: the questions worth asking, one click from the Q&A
- Checking an unchanged bid again costs nothing
Tender the lines you buy in, on the same system.
Much of a subcontract price is bought in. Select the lines you buy from suppliers, create a sub-tender and send it to your own suppliers as a package of your own. Their quotes come back on your lines, the roll-up shows the best quote on every line you carved out, and you apply your markup and carry the prices into your bid. The contractor sees only the bid you submit, never your suppliers or their prices. Sub-tenders are part of the construction workflow on the Scale plan.
- Select the lines, create the sub-tender, invite your own suppliers
- Their quotes on your lines, compared the way contractors compare yours
- The best quote per line, your markup applied, carried into your bid
- Your suppliers and their prices stay yours
Find out where you finished, and why.
Ask your question inside the tender. The contractor answers once and publishes the answer to every bidder, and your name is never shown to the others. Your bid carries the validity period the contractor set, so both sides know how long your price stands. When the award goes elsewhere, AI Bid Insights shows where your bid ranked, where it fell behind the winning bid and what to change for the next one. The winner's identity stays confidential.
- Questions answered once and published to every bidder
- Your name never shown to other bidders
- The date your prices are valid until, on your bid and in front of the contractor
- Where you ranked and why, when you do not win
From an inbox to an answer
The package arrives
- Email and portals
- A PDF and a spreadsheet to retype
- VEXORS
- Sections, items and quantities in place, drawings attached
Questions
- Email and portals
- Answered to whoever called
- VEXORS
- Answered once, published to every bidder
Checking your bid
- Email and portals
- When the contractor finds the gap
- VEXORS
- Before you send it
Your suppliers' prices
- Email and portals
- Another round of emails and a spreadsheet
- VEXORS
- A sub-tender on the same system
After the decision
- Email and portals
- Usually silence
- VEXORS
- Where you ranked, and why
Cost to answer
- Email and portals
- Portal registration and fees
- VEXORS
- Free, three bids a month on the free plan
Who this is for
The trade subcontractor
MEP, waterproofing, joinery, façade, finishes. You price your trade on other people's BoQs and want the right sections, the right drawings and a fair hearing on price.
The supplier and distributor
You quote the same categories to contractors and buyers in several industries. You want to find the tenders that fit and stop retyping other people's price schedules.
The specialist manufacturer
Your product is specified by name or by performance. You want to answer the package as written and show exactly what your price includes.
From invitation to decision in four steps
Get the package
Open the invitation, or find the tender in the open directory and register free. The package is waiting: sections, items, quantities and the drawings for your trade.
Price the lines
Enter your rates in the browser. On Scale, carve the lines you buy in into a sub-tender to your own suppliers and carry their best quotes back with your markup.
Check, ask, submit
Run the quality check, raise the open points on the tender's Q&A, fix what matters and submit before the deadline.
See where you finished
Awarded, and you know the moment it happens; the purchase order and payment are agreed with the contractor directly. Not selected, and AI Bid Insights shows where you ranked and what to change for the next one.
Answering tenders is free on every plan. The free Explore plan covers three bids a month, Grow covers fifteen and Scale has no limit; Scale adds sub-tenders to your own suppliers. The quality check and AI Bid Insights run on AI credits, granted once when a plan is activated: 50 on Explore, 300 on Grow and 750 on Scale.
Nothing in your inbox yet? Open the tender directory and bid on a live package today, no invitation needed.
Straight answers
Subcontractors buy too. The same account sends your own sub-tenders to your suppliers, so the packages you price and the packages you send sit on one system.
Download the free BOQ template
Real .xlsx files in English and Arabic, with formulas in place.
Read next
- Open construction tendersLive tenders open to the market, from contractors and developers.
- Free BoQ template (Excel)A bill of quantities with sections, rates and automatic totals, in English and Arabic.
- How to respond to a tender and win itWhat the evaluator reads first, and how to price and qualify a bid that holds up.
- Plans for firms bidding at volumeResponding is free. Grow adds volume; Scale adds sub-tenders to your own suppliers.