Run your client’s tender with the builders you trust, or ours. Every submission comes back priced against one defined scope, under your practice’s name.
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The page changes to suit your questions and your next step.
A proper tender is unpaid work.
Without one shared list, each builder prices their own reading of the drawings.
Someone in the practice reconciles three formats before the client can be advised.
It has to be defensible long after the round closes.
The fix
We run the round.You advise your client.
Four steps, and the practice keeps the judgement throughout.
Upload once, for your client.
Your drawings, reports and specifications go up in one place. No brief to write, no pack to assemble, no builders to chase for a price.
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Drop in your architectural plans as a PDF. We read them and fill out your project for you.
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Your plans are read securely to fill the form. Nothing is published until you say so.
We identify the scope. You choose who prices it.
We read your documents and lay out the full scope of works, every item referenced to its page, then your client approves it. Keep the round to builders you trust, open it to the verified network, or run both at once.
The tender pack
Tender round
228 lines of work, built from your documents
Who can tender
Pick how builders come to this round.
Open
Visible on BuilderHQ. Verified builders can take a spot, and you can still invite builders you already trust.
Private
By invitation only. The round never appears in the marketplace, and one invited builder is a perfectly valid round.
How this round runs
Tender spots
How many builders can price this project.
Three is the sweet spot for most projects: real competition without wasting builders’ time. Builders you invite count towards these spots.
Invited builders
These builders join free. Remaining spots open to the network.
1 invited · 3 spots in the round
Meridian Building Co
BuilderHQ builder
Every submission against one scope.
Every builder prices the same scope and answers the same questions under signature. There is nothing left to reconcile, and no risk that one submission quietly excluded what another included.
The like-for-like read
Same questions, every builder
Each tender below answered the BuilderHQ submission standard, so price, scope and conditions compare on the same terms. Differences surface first.
Tenders received
3
project live 14 days
Lowest tender inc GST
$712,800
highest $800,800 · 12% spread
Significant flags
2
raised across the round
The schedule alignment
Every builder answered the same 228-line tender schedule. They part ways on 9 lines. That is where the price difference lives.
The same project, read differently
Where the tenders differ
9 scope items are treated differently across these tenders. Until each builder prices the same scope, their totals are not the same number.
Side by side
The decision grid
Every row is the builders' own answers, lined up. A teal cell holds the strongest position on that line. The small marks explain any term of the trade.
The money
The programme
Scope
Delivery
The people
Open any builder's full evaluation to see the working behind their dimension scores.
The conditions behind the number
Ground risk, insurance, programme, payments, contract terms and the team. Answered by the builders themselves, in the same order.
1 identical answer hidden.
1 identical answer hidden.
1 identical answer hidden.
Hand your client the answer.
The scoring, the flags and every difference between the tenders are already set out for you. You add the judgement, your practice’s name goes on it, and the whole record holds up long after the round closes.
The tender evaluation
Tenders received
3
project live 14 days
Lowest tender inc GST
$712,800
highest $800,800 · 12% spread
Significant flags
2
raised across the round
Meridian Building Co
$753,500 inc GST · 36 weeks · keys Jul – Aug 2027
Fully priced, no allowances · No significant flags
Prepared by Studio North Architecture with BuilderHQ
ShortlistAwardSharing
Share the projectGive your client a seat at the round. A seat sees the project and the evaluation; a Deciding seat can also shortlist and award.
Not shared with anyone yet.
Every builder is checked before they price, and every rule is set before the round opens.
ABN against the Australian Business Register, licence against the state register where one connects and by our team where it does not. A builder joins an open round only once both have passed. A builder you invite joins on your say so, and their verification status is shown on the round either way.
Each line names the document, page and revision it came from. Anything we cannot trace is removed before your client sees it, and a revised pack goes to every builder at once as a numbered addendum.
The same six measures for every tender on the round, published in advance. Each score shows what was earned and what was not, so any line of your recommendation can be defended.
The round is yours, and the contract is your client’s.
The Preferred Partner register exists to make good practices easier to find. Partners receive, at no cost:
One platform, where Australia’s residential builds get organised.
Homeowners
bring the project
Plans in, tenders back, compared properly.
Building designers
bring the design
Tenders run under the practice’s name.
Builders
bring it to life
One list to price, no commission.
Finance brokers
back the build
Introduced when a client needs lending.
— Claire Donovan · Donovan Architecture · Fitzroy, VIC
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