MEP Bid Memory — Walkthrough
Tender lands Wednesday afternoon. By Thursday noon, the estimator is reviewing — not assembling. Five reads of MEP's own folders, sequenced through the first working day.
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Executive Summary
The whole day-in-the-life on one deck: Wed 5pm → Thu noon, five artifacts in order, plus what stays with the estimator.
Module 00
Tender Triage
Tender lands Wednesday afternoon. The readiness page is on the estimator's screen by Thursday 8am — due date, submission rules, what's there, what's missing, source for every fact.
Module 01
Vendor Memory
The vendors who priced your last few MEP jobs of this type are pre-selected on Thursday morning, organized by trade, with vendors gone quiet flagged for a check-in call.
Module 02
Exclusion Library
Lead-letter draft on Thursday morning, pulling from MEP's own past wording — grouped by trade and commercial. Every suggested line shows the past proposals it came from.
Module 03
BOM Starter
The scope rows MEP types into every job are already in the workbook Thursday morning, organized by trade section. The estimator curates and adds quantities.
Module 04
Pricing Benchmark
Quote lines that don't look like anything MEP has paid before get flagged for a second look. Bands appear once an item has shown up in 5+ past tenders; below that, source quotes go side-by-side.
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