We enhance the experience of SmartBid users through seamless integrations and partnerships with other leading solution providers.
SmartBid makes the preconstruction process simple and easy, but why stop there? By integrating with Procore, users seamlessly transition your projects, subs, and documents from the preconstruction phase to the building phase to keep tracking your projects smoothly from bid to completion.
The key features of this integration for SmartBid users who also use Procore Project Management Solutions include:
- Integrate data from the bid process into your project management dashboard.
- Easily sync project info and docs for awarded companies and contacts.
- Centralize project docs throughout construction and integrate estimating & takeoff.
The Autodesk BIM 360 integration gives general contractors the ability to access their enhanced BIM 360 project files and plans from their SmartBid online plan room. With this new integration, GCs can further simplify how they organize project documents and send invitations to bid to subcontractors, reducing time, costs and errors during the bidding phase of projects.
The key features of this integration for SmartBid users who also use BIM 360 Docs include:
- Users of SmartBid and Autodesk BIM 360 can access and set up the integration at no cost.
- View their Autodesk BIM 360 plans and import their project files into their SmartBid plan room for a holistic view of their project documents to catch possible errors before sending out their invitations to bid.
- Share their plan room with subcontractors, allowing them to view all project documents in one location, as well as provide the best bid for every project.
- Set access limitations on documents, hiding them from specific codes or requiring a confidentiality agreement or prequalification to access, to avoid the unintentional publication of sensitive information.
The Dropbox cloud storage integration allows users to upload, or automatically sync project files and plans in selected projects to keep your documents up-to-date. Securely share, sync, and collaborate on project documents with the Dropbox integration.
By integrating the Dropbox account into SmartBid, general contractors able to:
- Upload or sync project files and documents from Dropbox directly into SmartBid and vice versa.
- Quickly add or remove project files with real-time synchronization.
- Always keep plans within reach for any subcontractor in SmartBid or Dropbox.
With the STACK Estimating and Takeoff integration in SmartBid, all SmartBid users can easily open plan files and quickly perform basic quantity takeoffs from your SmartBid plan room.
By becoming a STACK Estimating customer, SmartBid users can:
- Experience real-time estimating takeoff with your project team and subcontractors
- Use detailed reporting to calculate the cost and quantity of materials to pull back into SmartBid
- Take advantage of STACK’s pre-built catalogs to help you calculate costs for specific trades based on your own rates and historical experience
With the new ConstructConnect Network integration, your company will have access to the largest subcontractor network in North America. You’ll get the additional capacity and bid coverage you need to win more projects, wherever you do business.
By using the ConstructConnect Network integration, general contractors in SmartBid can:
- Find subs in ConstructConnect network based on project location, trade codes, & certifications
- View ConstructConnect subs in ‘Qualified’ tab that are more active & most likely to respond
- Use the “Expanded Network” to access additional ConstructConnect subs if needed
We partner with Plans4Less to provide affordable reprographer options to our SmartBid users and their subcontractors. Our Plans4Less integration allows SmartBid users to:
- Print construction plan files affordably.
- Send plans quickly anywhere in the U.S.
SmartInsight is an online construction network that helps general contractors find, verify and connect with subcontractors and suppliers. The full SmartInsight database of contractors is integrated with SmartBid for general contractors to tap into when sending project communications.
By using the SmartInsight construction network, general contractors in SmartBid can:
- Access a quality, up-to-date database of subcontractors for additional bid coverage.
- Locate qualified subcontractors that match your project requirements.
- Access a platform focused on streamlined prequalification with subcontractor scoring available from industry leading risk analysts.
Citrix ShareFile, our recommended cloud storage service, integrates into SmartBid for a seamless connection between both systems – allowing users to keep their project documents up to date within both platforms.
By integrating a ShareFile account into SmartBid, general contractors are able to:
- Upload bid project files and documents from ShareFile directly into SmartBid and vice versa.
- Quickly add and remove project documents with real-time synchronization.
- Always keep your plans within reach for any shared subcontractor in SmartBid or ShareFile.
We partner with ConsensusDocs to integrate standardized construction qualification forms, such as CD 721, within our SmartBid and SmartInsight products.
With the ConsensusDocs integration, you can:
- Create customized forms.
- Collect qualification, compliance, safety data.
- Adhere to industry standards for sub information collection.
In addition to our preferred cloud integration with ShareFile, our users’ SmartBid online plan room can also integrate with ten other commonly used cloud storage solutions.
ShareFile
Box
Google Drive
OneDrive
Egnyte
SharePoint
OneDrive for Business
CMIS
Alfresco
AWS S3
Dropbox
We partner with the world’s leading insurance broker, Marsh, to integrate their SubSecure financial benchmarking service to help our users assess the risk of partnering with other companies on projects. This unprecedented integration gives our users access to the industry’s leading risk analysis reports to understand the risks associated with entering into contracts.
With the Marsh and SmartBid integration, users can:
- Order Quick or Comprehensive Rating Reports on subcontractors.
- Review industry benchmark comparisons and expert risk analysis.
- Mitigate risk and make better partner selections with this new information.
We partner with Dun & Bradstreet to integrate their commercial business database, credit reporting and analytics tools into our SmartInsight construction network database. This gives our users unprecedented access to cleansed, verified data on their current and potential construction project partners.
With the D&B and SmartInsight integration, users can:
- Pull four types of D&B reports from within the system.
- Receive a routine discount on all reports pulled within SmartInsight.
- Mitigate risk and make better partner selections with this new information.
