--- title: "SmartBid Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of SmartBid. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if SmartBid is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/smartbid-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Construction Bid Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/bid-management-systems-comparison/) / [SmartBid](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/smartbid-profile/) / SmartBid Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/smartbid-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/smartbid-profile/alternatives/) # SmartBid User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.4/5 - Total reviews: 66 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.2/5 - Customer support: 4.3/5 - Value for money: 4.1/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 29 reviews (44%) - 4 stars: 32 reviews (48%) - 3 stars: 5 reviews (8%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - The platform helps streamline bid management by allowing teams to easily send invitations to bid, track subcontractor responses, and manage communication in one centralized system. - The system provides helpful visibility into scheduling and cost considerations during the bidding process, which can improve planning and decision-making. While there can be a slight learning curve for new users and some features could be expanded further, the platform still delivers solid value for money. - Additionally, the customer support team is responsive and helpful when assistance is needed, which makes onboarding and day-to-day use smoother. ### Most mentioned cons - This is a TERRIBLE product for subcontractor integration. ## SmartBid customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 66 (page 1). ### Smartbid - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience with Smartbid could not be better. We use the program everyday, and update as much as necessary. It is highly recommended in my opinion. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great software to organize all of your Subcontractors and Vendors. Very easy to edit, add, or delete company names and contacts. Many categories for each company, including work types, DBE choices, unique categories to your company. Many fields get pre-filled, and make it quick to input data. Great reporting, exporting, and sending single or mass emails. Updates for bids or just company reports. #### Cons There are so many features, sometimes users can double up information. It's better to keep track of what users can modify specific items within each company. It's easy to have multiple entries of the same company. So user monitoring is key. --- ### SmartBid Simplifies Subcontractor Communication and Bid Tracking - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience with SmartBid has been positive, particularly during the preconstruction and bidding phases of projects. The platform helps streamline bid management by allowing teams to easily send invitations to bid, track subcontractor responses, and manage communication in one centralized system. It also supports broader construction and project management workflows by keeping bid documents, subcontractor lists, and project information organized. The system provides helpful visibility into scheduling and cost considerations during the bidding process, which can improve planning and decision-making. While there can be a slight learning curve for new users and some features could be expanded further, the platform still delivers solid value for money. Overall, SmartBid is a reliable tool that improves efficiency and collaboration between general contractors and subcontractors during the bidding process. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What I liked most about SmartBid is how effectively it streamlines the bid management process. It makes it easy to distribute invitations to bid, track subcontractor responses, and manage all bid-related communication in one centralized platform. The platform also supports broader construction and project management workflows by helping teams stay organized throughout the preconstruction phase. The scheduling and cost management visibility during bidding helps ensure better planning and more accurate estimates. Another advantage is the relatively manageable learning curve, as the interface is straightforward for both general contractors and subcontractors. In terms of value for money, it provides solid functionality for managing bids and subcontractor communication efficiently. Additionally, the customer support team is responsive and helpful when assistance is needed, which makes onboarding and day-to-day use smoother. #### Cons What I liked least about SmartBid is that some features can feel a bit limited when managing larger or more complex projects. While the platform works well for bid management, certain aspects of project management and scheduling integration could be more robust. There can also be a slight learning curve for new users when first setting up bid packages and subcontractor lists. In addition, some reporting and cost management visibility could be improved to provide deeper insights during the bidding process. While customer support is generally helpful, response times can occasionally vary depending on the issue. --- ### There are more affordable options - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Todd H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It did get us out in touch with the trades, but the coverage was week. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros I do like the way a project is created and the publishing features. I do feel that it was advantageous in the way we were able to take a project that we were going to bid and get the information out to the trades #### Cons I hated the fact that their database is so out of date. Many times our bid invite was going out to the wrong person or that person was no longer with the company. The software needs some form of check and balance to ensure that the information is accurate and that companies are keeping thier information correct. #### Vendor response Hi Todd, Thank you for your review! In SmartBid, clients primarily rely on results from their own private database, which they alone maintain. Use of our SmartInsight database of contractors is included with SmartBid as an additional resource for those situations where you will need additional subcontractor coverage, and is especially helpful when you find that you're bidding in a market that you're new to. It's a very large database, and as with any database, the maintenance of those records to keep them updated is a full-time job. People come and go, businesses shut down, etc. and naturally they don't notify us. :) Because of this we work hard to make those records as reliable as possible. Last week for example, 2,000 records deemed as invalid were purged from the system. Overall, this free resource offers a lot of value and we will continue to work hard to make it as reliable as possible! Replied August 2017 --- ### Smartbid- Great for general contractors! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Rachel R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The benefits included are ease of access, multi user capability, subcontractor functions, and the blast emailing projects out to get the project to as many subcontractors as possible. We like the fact that it is cost efficient and allows our subcontractor pool to benefit from the program as well. You can also import public data agency information that includes new subcontractors. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I enjoy that smartbid streamlines the bidding process in construction. It allows you to upload drawings & specifications, as well as selecting trades to solicit to easily. Most bidding softwares are too complex for small subcontractors to understand and easily access documents. Smartbid offers ease of use for these subcontractors as well as allowing subcontractors to benefit the way the general contractor is. Having the availability to create takeoffs in Smartbid for the subcontractors you invite is so important. #### Cons The only thing I struggle with for Smartbid is the options to having subcontractors change their information within the program. We would like to see that subcontractors can update their license information as well as contacts for their company. Hopefully changes will be made in the future to allow these features to be utilized. --- ### Hank J.'s review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Hank J. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: September 2011 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered JE Dunn Construction is an ENR top 20 General Contractor with offices from Charlotte, NC to Seattle, WA. We have been using SmartBidNet nationally since March of 2010 and regionally in the Southeast for another year prior to that. Before using SmartBidNet, we used iSqFt for several years and several other systems including Pipeline and BidFax. SmartBidNet is the right bid management software package for our organization for a multitude of reasons, several of which are: - Flexibility and customization of the system set-up - SmartBidNet's commitment to adopting current technologies - Ease of use for subcontractors The SmartBidNet system can be configured to accommodate firms ranging in size from only a couple of users to the largest multi-divisional, multi-office organizations. We currently have a total of 431 users across 20 different offices. SmartBidNet allows us to configure our system so that we can group our internal users, projects, and subcontractors by office and our offices by regions so that we can tailor the access of our users to fit what those users should be working on. We can limit or allow access to projects and subcontractor records by user, by proficiency, by office, by region, or by function (preconstruction, operations, accounting, HR, etc.). As an administrator, this flexibility is invaluable and crucial in maintaining security and accuracy of our information. The directors at SmartBidNet have adopted a shrewd practice of releasing new versions of their software about once a month. All subscribers to the system automatically get these new releases by virtue of the system being web-based. In these releases, SmartBidNet will implement (usually) small changes. Users benefit from this methodology by not having to go through extensive training following the typical 'Major Product Release' pattern of most software vendors. This method also allows SmartBidNet to run a continually changing list of product development activities and can more quickly adapt to incorporate newer technologies into their system. This has been particularly important to us as an organization as we have begun to integrate our custom in-house software applications with SmartBidNet in various ways. SmartBidNet offers a refreshingly open policy of allowing our internal systems to push or pull information directly to / from the SmartBidNet system, commenting to us at one point, "It's your data, you can do whatever you want with it". The last item I want to highlight speaks for itself. SmartBidNet leads the industry in ease of access and ease of use for subcontractors. One button access of project information was pioneered by SmartBidNet. Their commitment to a simple subcontractor interface is second to none. SmartBidNet has allowed us to pull together all of the offices for our entire company into a cohesive, well-organized, properly restricted system for the first time ever. This has allowed us to capitalize on many of the synergies that a multi-office general contractor should have in regards to shared resources and shared contacts. It has been a major improvement over previous systems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 --- ### A SubContractor's Pain - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Nathan S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Customer service / tech support is extremely poor. As a subcontractor forced to use this by some partner GCs, we regularly encourage them to switch to a different product. From our perspective as a user they are a nightmare. The stock answer is; "Go back and talk to our customer, they're doing something wrong, not our software". This is a TERRIBLE product for subcontractor integration. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It allows for easy submission of a proposal. #### Cons I have to log into multiple GCs separately. It doesn't allow several GCs under one email. It does an extremely poor job of providing a bid calendar. --- ### Smartbid review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Marty T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very positive. I have been extremely pleased with this product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Smartbid is easy to implement and is very user friendly. #### Cons Requiring bidders to submit thru Smartbid is cumbersome to setup. #### Reasons for choosing SmartBid Price and contract terms --- ### Works Great - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall this is a tool that works if you work it. Usability is key when using any bidding software. Detail used in this program is very helpful. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The break downs and overall features of this product make it very useful for bidding large projects. #### Cons I think if the communication section could be more personalized so it seems as if the user is sending a email directly and not through smart bid. Most people are overrun in emails and a personalized touch may invite more participants to open there email. Does not update the date without refreshing the page. gets confusing when making calls. --- ### This is a bid database that my company uses for the bid process for construction projects. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. An up to date database that can be filtered to different areas depending on where the project is located. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros We are able to store potentiometer trade partners and send out communications regarding projects with ease. Trade partners are able to respond to the bid invitation and they are able to upload their proposal. #### Cons This software still has a couple of kinks. If at anytime you click the back button, you will be required to log back into the program. --- ### SmartBid has been very easy to learn and navigate as I learn the ins and outs of it. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The main benefit from this software is just the saving of time. What could take up to half my day, I can accomplish in the matter of an hour. The ease of use and time saving have been truly helpful. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love the ease of use and the ability to distribute the information we need to get to our subs with such ease. The program is easy to use, but does not lack in its capabilities. For bidding purposes it makes my life so much easier knowing all the available information is getting distributed to everyone that needs to see it. #### Cons I have not come across any cons while working with the software. The only issue I have when using this is selecting the contractors to send bids to, but that is just because it is a strain on the eyes. --- ### Features and ease of use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Amber S. - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This software is easy to use, customizable, and their customer service is excellent. yet to find a software that compares. #### Cons The user interface needs to be updated. It is very difficult to understand how to send out even basic invitations to bid without the assistance of someone that has used the program for several months. #### Vendor response Hi Amber, thank you for taking the time to add a review of the system! I think that with all the features we've added at request of clients, there is definitely a lot for a new user to consider. The way we help users overcome this is with free training. In addition to our offering of weekly webinars for both new and advanced users, we set up group sessions with our new clients and personal sessions for new users in the areas they need it. Just reach out to our Customer Service if you find you need this! Replied August 2017 --- ### Donny H.'s review - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Donny H. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: November 2011 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered SmartBidNet is magnificent, easy to learn and use. It is powerful and precise; the tech support is knowledgeable, and quick to respond. They have resolved the few problems I've had, (typically not with SBN) within the hour. SmartBidNet has always worked above and beyond my expectations. It used to take days to sort and email drawings and specifications to 50 or so subcontractors, now I have a sub list of hundreds who have plans and specs online, every time, 24 hours a day. With the current addition of "Cloud Take Off" my subcontractors now have onscreen take off abilities, and real time collaboration capabilities. I can mark up drawings with notes, select any number of subcontractors and communicate my request for quotations in minutes instead of hours. I don't know how we were able to manage the bid process without it. We bid more projects in less time with fewer resources than ever before. The old school bid process was a pain, but SmartBidNet is a breeze. I love this priceless piece of software heaven. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### Smart Bid, helps you get more prjects - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joaquin C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love smart bid, because it help you get more project in your area to bid and higher chances to land a project. #### Cons The only thing I would like smart bid to change is to make it more affordable --- ### Best software I've seen - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Cade D. - Industry: Construction - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: November 2014 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's easy to customize to your liking. The best feature is the capability to create notes for each contractor contacted, and keep track of their bidding status throughout the bid timeline. #### Cons It would be nice to have the capability to solicit contractors that you currently don't have contact information for. For instance, if you were doing a project in a new location, to get a list of contractors who specialize in the bid categories you are looking for. --- ### Very Effective Pre-construction Management Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Colin M. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I came from a company where all the pre-construction administration was done from Microsoft Outlook. SmartBid is so much more effective. I like that I am able to distribute large amounts of information to selected contractors. I do wish that adding contractors to a project list were as easy as a click of a button, or revising who gets the information without changing the global company contact. Maybe it already does this and I just need to understand that aspect better. Overall I've had a great experience with the software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### Part Time User - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jeremy E. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I help out in the estimating department when we are slow and need to land more projects. In turn, I use SmatBidNet for a few months a year. Overall I like it. There was a bit of a learning curve in the beginning but that is to be expected with any software. I have noticed that even with the updates and the such I am able to jump back in year after year without much if any lose of how to use the program. Of all the estimating/soliciting programs I have used this one is superior. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### One month into use - so far so good! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Troy R. - Industry: Construction - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: September 2014 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3.5/5 - Customer support: 3.5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The vast majority of the work we do is public work, and the goal is to reach as many companies as possible. Other software systems required subcontractors to create accounts. #### Cons The pricing was a bit higher than we are used to. We have users that only need it for a month or two a year, which doesn't justify creating additional accounts. --- ### Smart bid review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ryan R. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: March 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The interface is pretty easy to use. I haven't used it in a while but it worked out pretty good on the project we had it on. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Vendor response Ryan - Thank you for the feedback and review! It is a pleasure working with companies like Joeris. We hope SmartBid continues to meet your team's expectations and we hope that you'll let us know if it does not. - Liz Welsh, Marketing Director Replied July 2017 --- ### Smart Bid for Smart Bidders - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Michael N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ease of use, very user friendly and intuitive #### Cons Not finding this sooner as its very user friendly --- ### Bid calculator - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Robbie M. - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I really liked it, it helped me to get more precise estimates down to the penny as for how it used to be would vary and sometimes bid would be several thousand dollars off #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The ease of use and how it takes all the data and crunches it all I have to do is key it in #### Cons Nothing --- ### great! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: jo w. - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. would recommend. Great for small businesses. Great for training new hires. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros great --- ### SOFTWARE REVIEW - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Joe C. - Industry: Construction - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Website easy to navigate. The app for Android or IOS seems easy to use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### Very effective bidding tool!! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Clarissa W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Saved time (which equals $$$) and now we have a great place to store our bid documents, and easily distribute them to all of our subcontractors and suppliers!! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros As a general contractor/construction manager firm, we use SmartBid on almost all of our projects. It's a great tool to let our subcontractors and suppliers know what projects we're bidding on, and ensure we have proper coverage for the scope of work involved. I was part of the initial setup when our company first began using SmartBid. We used to make a "call list" and someone would actually call up to a few hundred subs and suppliers for every project we bid. WOW. I can't believe we wasted so much time! Now, just a few clicks of a button and all of our bidding documents are in one, easily accessible place, and all the appropriate subs and suppliers are notified! Amazing! #### Cons The initial setup was a bit time-consuming. This was partly due to our own company's massively outdated subcontractor and supplier list. Most of our time was spent "trimming the fat" and updating old contact information. There are also limited user profiles, when it would be nice to have more people in our company be able to interact with SmartBid. --- ### The right tool for the job in regard to construction management bidding services. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Daniel G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great product, open API, and pretty good customer support. Its between this and building connected, but Smart Bid trumps Building connected because it does not require sub contractors to login. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ease of use and the right amount of customization. The learning curve is present, but should not hinder a person that is at least somewhat comfortable with computer use. A great product that streamlines the bid process and allows the user the ability to tune the it to their needs. #### Cons The incorporation of the pre-qual process and other administrative tools into the software can be a bit clunky, but they still work, however, they require a bit more fiddling with. --- ### Bid and Management - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Frank R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, using SmartBid can save time and produce professional studies and management of our construction projects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros By simplifying the pre-construction process and improving the overall communication, comparing bids and track projects. #### Cons SmartBid works very well, yet when it comes to add-ons, one should be careful how to apply such integrations. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/smartbid-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- SmartBid Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice