Free Sitework Bid Checklists
The checklists our estimators run on every bid before the number goes out: 850 line items across scope, prevailing wage, and geotech pricing. Print them, tick them, and keep the ones that do not apply marked N/A so nothing is a silent assumption.
Sitework Bid Scope Checklist
Every line a sitework bid has to cover, from bid logistics and contract terms to exclusions and bid day review.
- Bid Logistics, Qualification and Bonding
- Bid Documents and Addenda
- Pre-Bid: Site Walk, RFIs and Scope Gaps
- Contract Terms, Schedule and Phasing
- Clearing, Demolition and Strip
- Earthwork Quantities, Shrink and Balance
- Subgrade, Over-Excavation and Compaction
- and 19 more sections
Prevailing Wage Bid Checklist
Everything to set up before pricing a Davis-Bacon or state prevailing wage job: which law applies, the wage determination, classifications, fringe, overtime, certified payroll, and bid day.
- Which Law Applies
- State Laws: Nevada, Utah, and Others
- The Wage Determination In Your Bid Set
- Modifications, Timing, and Option Years
- Classification Basics and Foremen
- Equipment Operators
- Laborers, Pipe, Flaggers, Survey, and Other Trades
- and 15 more sections
Geotech Report Pricing Checklist
The parts of a geotechnical report that change the price: over-excavation, compaction, import specs, rock, groundwater, shoring, pavement sections, and testing.
- Report Identification and Status
- Plan Match and Conflicts
- Scope and Exploration Limits
- Boring Logs and Field Data
- Laboratory Data
- Site History and Existing Conditions
- Clearing, Stripping and Subgrade Prep
- and 17 more sections
How to Use Them
Work top to bottom with the plans, specs, addenda, and geotech open. Tick a line only when it is priced, carried by a named sub or supplier, or written into the exclusions. Anything the documents do not answer becomes an RFI or a written clarification on the bid, not an assumption in your head. The lines marked "our default" are house conventions; confirm them against the spec and your supplier before you rely on them.
Price the labor with the prevailing wage crew cost calculator, check which law applies in prevailing wage by state, and read the geotech over-excavation guide for the earthwork side.