Sequoyah Electric - Scenario 2
Win more bids by making preconstruction faster and sharper
Kyle's preconstruction team and Shannon's estimating group spend weeks assembling bid packages, pulling historical data from past projects, and reconciling specs across design revisions. Boo turns that research into minutes, so the team spends its time on judgment, not data gathering.
The bottleneck is not estimating skill, it is information retrieval
When a new bid comes in for a 200,000 SF healthcare facility, the estimating team's first move is research. What did we bid on that similar Swedish Medical project two years ago? What were our actual labor hours versus our estimate on the last data center of this size? Which vendors gave us the best pricing on medium voltage switchgear last quarter?
That historical knowledge lives in spreadsheets, old proposals, project closeout files, and the heads of senior estimators. Finding it takes days. Sometimes it is never found, and the team estimates from scratch every time.
How it works with Boo
A healthcare design-build RFP arrives. Boo reads the scope, identifies the comparable project types from Sequoyah's history, and pulls relevant past bid data, labor actuals, and vendor pricing within minutes.
The architect issues an updated drawing set. Instead of someone manually redlining changes, Boo identifies the electrical scope differences between revisions and flags what affects the estimate: panel schedule changes, added circuits, updated fixture counts.
Boo pulls together the bid narrative, scope clarifications, and exclusions based on templates from successful past bids. The estimator reviews and refines rather than writing from blank.
Boo drafts and sends RFQs to preferred vendors, tracks responses, and compiles a pricing comparison. When a quote is missing 48 hours before bid day, it flags it and sends a follow-up.
Real example: competing on a data center expansion
Three-week turnaround on a $4M electrical package for a colocation expansion
The GC wants a lump-sum bid with a detailed breakdown by floor and system. Sequoyah has done five similar projects in the last three years.
Without Boo
- 3 days spent finding past project data
- Estimator rebuilds labor factors from memory
- Spec comparison is a manual, line-by-line exercise
- Vendor quotes trickle in; some arrive after the deadline
- Bid narrative written from scratch
With Boo
- Past project comparables surfaced in under an hour
- Labor factors pulled from actuals on the 5 prior builds
- Spec deltas highlighted automatically between addenda
- Vendor outreach launched day 1, follow-ups automated
- Bid narrative drafted from Sequoyah's winning templates
What changes for Sequoyah
Scenario prepared for Sequoyah Electric leadership. Based on publicly available information about Sequoyah's operations, preconstruction capabilities, and project types.