Easy Bidding Online Planroom vs Projectmates

Easy Bidding Online Planroom is a paid web service offering a customised, fully managed planroom for construction businesses. It uses the business’s branding and supports public or private projects, with project-key access for private work. Users can upload project files, send bid invitations by email or fax, choose recipients by trade, group and location, and receive real-time activity and bid-response reporting. The service tracks planholders and manages invitations to bid. Project documents can be viewed in a browser, with downloads available on some projects. Update notifications and an upcoming-project calendar support project visibility. Calendar events can be added to Google Calendar or Outlook, or shared through an iCal URL. Print ordering and file uploads for printing are available. The cloud service is described as accessible anytime and anywhere. Sealed bidding keeps bids closed until the deadline, with retraction or resubmission allowed before then. Pricing is available on request.

Projectmates is construction project management software for owners and capital program leaders. Its modules cover capital and asset planning, bids, construction, costs, documents, risk, schedules, analytics and reporting. It manages workflows including RFIs, submittals, change orders, daily field reports and punch lists. Cost tools cover budgets, bids, contracts, change orders, pay applications and invoices. Teams can use more than 100 pre-built reports or create custom reports with drag-and-drop tools. Integrations include Box and Dropbox, with business-intelligence connections for Microsoft Power BI and Tableau; optional add-ons include an API and connectors for PlanGrid and Procore. The service is hosted on Microsoft Azure and offers a dedicated private cloud with a dedicated database. Projectmates states SOC 2 Type II compliance and TX-RAMP Level 2 certification, and describes disaster-recovery protocols and active geo-replication. Native iOS and Android apps are free to users of Systemates-hosted websites. Pricing is on request; one listed dedicated private-cloud site-license plan costs $39,500 a year for 40 user licenses.