Reed Construction Data and Bluebeam Software partner to provide contractors with complete digital bidding solution

NORCROSS, Ga. and PASADENA, Calif. – The electronic bidding process just got better for the thousands of building professionals who use Reed Construction Data’s project lead services to identify local projects out for bid. Reed Construction Data, leading North American provider of construction information, and Bluebeam Software, leading developer of PDF-based solutions for the design and construction industry, are partnering to provide users with Bluebeam Revu Standard – a PDF creation, markup and editing solution built for the construction industry.

Together, Reed Construction Data’s project lead services and Revu equip users with a total solution for quickly identifying local projects and responding to bids electronically.

"Every day, Reed Construction Data helps thousands of subcontractors, GCs, building product manufacturers, dealers, distributors and suppliers identify the latest local projects so they can bid and win new business," said Jennifer Johnson, Director of Product Management at Reed Construction Data. "By partnering with Bluebeam, we are helping our customers become even more competitive by providing them with best-in-class PDF markup and editing tools for quickly reviewing and redlining electronic bid documents."

Reed Construction Data’s project lead services enable customers to find new, local projects requesting bids. Many projects also provide direct links to plans and specs, which can be saved in TIF format. Now that Reed Construction Data is offering Revu as a plan viewer, users can import project TIFs for automatic conversion to PDF and use Revu’s industry-standard PDF markup tools, including measurements, textboxes, callouts, clouds, leaders and CAD symbols to digitally redline bid documents. All markups and measurements are automatically tracked in Revu’s Markups list, from which custom columns can be created to calculate material costs, and all data can be sorted, filtered or summarized to CSV or XML for further calculations in Microsoft® Excel. Additionally, users can automatically compare PDF drawings or overlay pages to show differences between drawing revisions, assemble bid documents by adding, deleting, inserting and rotating PDF pages, insert text stamps, add headers and footers and digitally sign PDFs.

"Revu offers a tremendous value to Reed Construction Data customers by enabling them to digitally respond to bids faster," added Patrick Keller, Bluebeam Software Product Manager. "Data reported by our customers indicates that Revu helps users calculate takeoffs up to 70% faster and decrease turnaround time by as much as 60%. In the fast-paced world of project bidding, these time-savings not only help users meet bid deadlines, but free up more time to bid on additional projects."