Remote estimatingPreconstructionBid QA
Field-informed estimating support for electrical and low-voltage contractors. We turn drawings, specifications, addenda, and assumptions into organized, bid-ready packages.
Takeoffs from $500. Scope, fee, and delivery agreed before work begins.
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND BIDCONDUIT
Founder Deshante McDonald brings 17+ years of residential, commercial, and industrial electrical and low-voltage experience, with a career spanning hands-on installation and service, foreman and superintendent leadership, generator operations, and AV project management.
That background reaches from residential service calls and commercial power systems to major hospital construction, airport expansion, wastewater facilities, amusement parks, and telecommunications infrastructure. It informs how BidConduit reviews installation conditions, labor, trade responsibilities, and the scope that can get missed on paper.
Residential, commercial, and industrial work covering switchgear, distribution panels, transformers, generators, automatic transfer switches, underground raceways, and commercial lighting. Hands-on troubleshooting includes medium-voltage testing, ATS testing and replacement, main breakers, contactors, and relays.
Site Superintendent II experience on an eight-floor hospital project, followed by AV project management across freestanding emergency departments. Systems experience includes data and fiber infrastructure, nurse call, infant protection, access control, surveillance, AV, paging, coax, and cellular DAS coordination.
Generator field operations, crew supervision, apprentice training, manpower planning, and subcontractor coordination. Field responsibilities span rough-in verification, communication-room readiness, RFIs, issue tracking, inspection preparation, punch lists, and closeout.
Drawing review, takeoffs, material lists, labor planning, and proposal scope informed by installation experience. Particular attention goes to pathways, access, sequencing, testing, and who furnishes, pulls, installs, terminates, or programs each system.
Project environments Hospitals and emergency departments · Nursing facilities · Airport expansion · Wastewater treatment · Amusement parks · Cell towers · Residential, commercial, and industrial facilities
Training & credentials Hillsborough Community College electrical apprenticeship · OSHA 30 · NFPA 70E electrical safety training · FASA/BASA · CPR and First Aid
Career experience gained through prior and current employers; presented as the founder’s background.
01 / THE DELIVERABLE
BidConduit does more than count. Our priced estimates show where quantities came from, how the labor and cost basis was built, who owns each responsibility, and what still needs a decision. Quantity-only takeoffs provide the counts, marked plans, and assumptions defined in your quote.
Source-referenced counts, footages, and labeled allowances.
Labor hours, materials, vendor inputs, and commercial basis.
Who furnishes, pulls, installs, terminates, tests, and programs.
RFIs, exclusions, addenda impacts, and unresolved decision items.
02 / PROJECT SERVICES
Send your drawings and tell us what you need. We will review the scope and confirm a fixed project fee before you commit.
One defined takeoff scope: counts, marked plans, assumptions, and a quantity summary. Priced estimates quoted separately.
Turnaround confirmed at intakeTakeoff, labor hours, material/BOM, scope boundaries, and estimate QA.
Turnaround confirmed at intakeA bid-ready package with clarifications, addenda review, and proposal support.
Turnaround confirmed at intakeHealthcare, multi-system, multi-phase, or high-sheet-count pursuits.
Turnaround confirmed at intakeStart with one project. Your quote identifies the included drawings, systems, deliverables, revision allowance, and delivery date. Labor and material pricing are quoted separately from quantity-only takeoffs.
Get a project quoteFinal fee and schedule are confirmed after document review. Pricing reflects project size, system mix, document quality, due date, and required deliverables.
03 / THE WORKFLOW
Each stage has a clear status, output, and decision point. Missing information becomes a visible allowance or action item—not a hidden assumption.
04 / ONGOING SUPPORT
Once we have worked together, we can discuss recurring support based on your actual bid volume, project complexity, and the capacity you need. No monthly plan is required to get started.
Discuss your next bid05 / WHO BIDCONDUIT HELPS
A5-50 person contractorsOwners and PMs carrying the bid desk after hours.
BOverloaded estimatorsReliable overflow without a permanent hire.
CGrowing specialty firmsMore discipline as healthcare and commercial complexity rises.
06 / WORKING STANDARD
Your estimator should make the bid easier to review—not harder to trust. BidConduit keeps scope logic visible from intake through final delivery.
We treat your plans and pricing as confidential, make missing information visible, and confirm scope, price, and delivery before work begins. You retain control of the final bid.
Unknowns are carried as visible allowances, exclusions, RFIs, or decision items instead of disappearing into the number.
Your team retains final pricing, licensing, proposal, contract, and submission authority at every stage.
07 / BEFORE INTAKE
Every engagement begins with document review, a confirmed scope, and a written delivery basis.
Ask a project questionCurrent drawings, specifications, addenda, bid instructions, due date, scope expectations, and any known labor, material, or vendor assumptions. Our online intake saves your files and answers, shows what is missing, and adds labor and travel questions when you request a priced estimate.
Every project is reviewed before scheduling. Turnaround is confirmed from the actual sheet count, system mix, document quality, addenda status, and level of detail required—not from a generic promise.
Yes. Labor units, material preferences, mark-up structure, alternates, proposal language, exclusions, and workbook format can be aligned to the contractor's standards when those inputs are provided.
Your quote states the included revision allowance. Addenda are logged and reconciled against the prior basis. Additional revisions, new scope, and late changes are quoted before work continues.
No. BidConduit provides estimating and preconstruction support. The contractor retains final review, pricing approval, licensing responsibility, contractual commitments, and bid submission authority.
08 / START HERE
Start your project online, drag in your plans, and follow a checklist tailored to your bid. Save your progress and answer follow-up questions in one place. Prefer email? Contact plans@getbidconduit.com.