Reduced bid costs through detailed project specifications

The Issue

Traditionally, the vendors who service buildings, such as mechanical engineering firms or building automation system companies, build margin into their bids to perform discovery on the building. To compound this issue, vendors often include unnecessary scope because they re-use bids from past buildings, even if the scope does not fully apply to the building in question. In this building, Bractlet’s Intelligence Engine(TM) identified and analyzed a series of optimizations using the Digital Energy Twin(TM) of the building. Using the virtualized model, Bractlet’s platform outputs highly specified sequences of operations for each optimization that are used to bid out and implement projects. Even with this information, the vendor who bid on the project ignored the tailored sequences and submitted a bid much higher than the estimate.