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Drawing Intelligence

“AI quantity takeoff that reads the full plan set, building or highway, bundles it by discipline, and turns it into a traceable bid schedule”

Drawing Intelligence is Bidovate's AI quantity takeoff for government construction bids. It reads the full plan set, whether a 50-sheet building or a 1,500-sheet highway package, sorts every sheet into discipline bundles, and pulls the quantities your estimators price: excavation, concrete and Portland cement, reinforcing and structural steel, aggregate base, hot mix asphalt, ductwork, piping, and conduit. Each quantity is traced to its source sheet, assembled into a bid schedule mapped to the solicitation's CLIN structure, and checked against the specifications for conflicts.
300+
drawing sheets read per solicitation
minutes
vs 3 to 10 days of manual quantity takeoff
8
drawing disciplines auto-sorted into bundles

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Key Capabilities

What it does

Reads every sheet and bundles by discipline

Ingests the full plan set from any construction solicitation, building, highway, bridge, or facility, reads each sheet's title block, and sorts the set into discipline bundles: general, civil, architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection. You work the drawings the way your estimating team does, by trade.

Quantity takeoff across the bundle

Runs takeoff across a whole bundle and extracts measurable quantities with their units: excavation in cubic yards, concrete and Portland cement, reinforcing and structural steel by the pound and ton, aggregate base and hot mix asphalt by the ton, ductwork and conduit by the linear foot, and counted items like fixtures and diffusers. Every quantity links back to the sheet it came from.

Builds the bid schedule and maps to CLINs

Assembles the quantities into a structured bid schedule (Bill of Quantities), maps each line to the solicitation's CLIN structure from Section B and the matching specification section, and flags any line where the drawing quantity and the bid-schedule quantity disagree.

Catches drawing and specification conflicts

Cross-checks drawings against the specs and across disciplines, and surfaces the issues an estimator would flag: a duct that will not fit the ceiling clearance, a steel grade that differs between drawing and spec, a detail that is missing. Each conflict comes with a drafted pre-bid question (RFI) ready to submit.

Ask the drawing set anything

Keeps the full set in context so your team can ask in plain language, how much cement is on the pavement sheets, which sheets cover the bridge deck, what changed in the latest revision, and get an answer tied to the exact sheets.

How it Works

Simple steps to get started

1

Upload the plan set

Drop in the drawing PDF, from a 50-sheet building to a 1,500-sheet highway package, with the specifications and bid schedule.

2

Sheets are read and bundled

Each sheet is classified from its title block and sorted into discipline bundles, so the set is organized the way your estimators work it.

3

Run takeoff and review

Quantities are extracted into a bid schedule with every line traced to its source sheet, alongside the drawing-specification conflicts and drafted pre-bid questions.

4

Export or push to pricing

Send the bid schedule to Excel for your cost team, or straight into Pricing and BOQ Intelligence for GSA CALC and Davis-Bacon rate benchmarking.

Why it Matters

The problem this solves

A federal construction solicitation can arrive with 50 to 300 sheets of drawings, and a large highway package with well over a thousand. Doing the quantity takeoff by hand, sheet by sheet, takes an experienced estimator 3 to 10 days, and one missed quantity means you either overbid and lose the award or underbid and lose money on the job. Drawing Intelligence does the slow part. It reads the whole set, bundles it by discipline, pulls the quantities into a traceable bid schedule, and flags the drawing and specification conflicts worth raising before the deadline. It is the takeoff and review work your capture and estimating team already does with the drawings, done in minutes instead of days.

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