Why bid → buyout is a hand-off, not a rebuild

When the bid wins, the next 30 days are bid-to-buyout. Project manager inherits the bid + builds the actual contract: subcontract scopes, schedule activities, RFI logs, submittal logs. Most teams treat this as a rebuild — start over, re-group the scope, re-organize the line items by trade, re-create the sub packages.

Why the rebuild happens

The bid was organized for the bid: by CSI division, optimized for total. The buyout package needs the same data organized differently: by sub, by activity, by deliverable. Without a structured intermediate, the PM rebuilds.

What we ship instead

• Scope packages auto-grouped by trade, with the takeoff lines + spec excerpts attached
• Schedule activities pre-populated from the takeoff with crew sizes + production rates from the org's history
• RFI logs initialized with the bid clarifications already inline
• Submittal logs derived from the spec submittal items

Pilot data: bid-to-buyout time meaningfully decreases versus pre-platform baselines. The time saved isn't optimization — it's the elimination of work that should never have been required.