Bid / no-bid intelligence · Division 09 · painting & coatings
The finish schedule says one thing. Division 09 says another.
RFiQ reads the whole bid package — spec book, room finish schedule and the architectural set — pulls your Division 09 scope, checks the GC and the developer against your own win history, and hands back a verdict you can argue with.
The finish schedule, not just the spec book
Grounded in your win history
Every factor shown, every call overridable
Design partners are onboarding now. No spam, no pricing pitch.
Package · 412 pp · 26 A-sheets4 min 11 s
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CAUTION
Bid it, but send two RFIs before you price it.
Room finish schedule
Division 09 spec
Level 5 finish — rooms 210–213
Never mentioned
Eggshell, all walls
Semi-gloss in wet areas
Exposed deck — no entry
Div 05: paint exposed steel
!Three conflicts between the schedule and the spec, and about 11,000 sf of exposed deck that appears in neither takeoff. Send the RFIs before you price it.
Why
01Finish schedule calls Level 5 in four rooms. Division 09 never mentions it.
02Exposed deck is spec’d for paint in Division 05 — 11,000 sf nobody priced.
034-of-11 with this GC’s Southeast office — above your book average.
The problem
Nobody cross-reads the schedule against the spec. That’s where the money goes.
Two documents, one scope
The room finish schedule and the Division 09 spec disagree more often than they agree — and you are held to whichever one is worse.
Estimators are the constraint
Every hour spent pricing a job you were never going to win is an hour stolen from a job you could have taken.
The expensive parts are notes
Level 5 in four rooms, written as a general note. Exposed structure to be painted, spec’d over in Division 05. Neither is in your takeoff.
A note you didn’t read is square footage you didn’t price.
Chasing a loser burns estimating hours you can count. Eleven thousand feet of exposed deck at three coats is a number you find out about in the field. Both compound, job after job.
How it works
Spec, schedule and sheets in. Verdict out.
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Drop the package in
Project manual, finish schedule and the drawing set, however your GC sent them. Big PDFs are the normal case, not the exception.
Project manualFinish scheduleAddenda
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RFiQ reads all of it
Division 09 located across the spec book, the room finish schedule and the sheets, pulled into structured line items you can click back to the source page.
Div 09 · 09 91 00Page-level citationsReview flags
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You get a verdict, and the argument behind it
GO, CAUTION or NO-GO with every factor exposed. Disagree and override — that override trains your next verdict.
GO / CAUTION / NO-GOFactor breakdownOverride logged
DAY ONENo history in the system yet? Upload your past bids as a spreadsheet and RFiQ starts from “you’re 4-of-11 with that GC’s Southeast office” instead of “first time”.
Inside the verdict
Every line traced back to a page, a room and a sheet.
Scope, extracted
Located across the spec book, the finish schedule and the drawings, line by line, with the page it came from.
09 91 00Interior painting — walls & ceilingsp. 402
09 91 13Exterior painting & sealersp. 411
09 96 00High-performance coatingsp. 418
09 93 00Staining & transparent finishingp. 423
09 21 16Level 5 finish — note, not schedulep. 388
Built for recall — flagged for review, never silently dropped.
Who you’re bidding to
GC and developer resolved to the regional office — because one office is not the other.
General contractor4/11
Regional GC · Southeast office
11 bids · 4 wins · last won 8 months ago
Developer0/0
First time on your book
No history · payment terms unproven
Engineer of record6
Seen on 6 prior packages
Specs run tight; few addenda
Signals off the architectural set
The things that quietly swing labor hours and margin, buried in notes rather than the schedule.
Drawing stageIFB
Wall area268,000 sf
Level 5 finish4 rooms
Exposed steelHidden in Div 05
Stage matters: an IFB set and a DD set are not the same bet, and RFiQ says so.
RFiQ decides whether to bid. It is not a takeoff tool, not an invitation aggregator, and not a contract-risk reviewer — it hands off to the ones you already use.
Your data
Your bid history is the asset. We treat it that way.
We don’t train on your data
Your packages and your bid history are used to answer your questions. They never become someone else’s model or someone else’s benchmark.
One org, one wall
Every document, scope item and win record is scoped to your organisation. There is no cross-customer pool, aggregate or otherwise.
Documents on your terms
Set how long packages are kept after a verdict. Delete a project and its extractions go with it.
Every verdict is auditable
Who ran it, what it said, what changed, who overrode it and why — kept as a record you can pull, not a log we hide.
Access you control
SSO and per-seat roles, so the estimator, the chief and the owner see what their job requires and nothing more.
No silent changes
When scoring criteria change, the change is recorded against the verdicts it affects. Old calls stay explainable.
Ask before you bid.
We’re taking on a small number of subcontractors as design partners. You bring real packages and real bid history; we bring the verdict engine and move fast on what you tell us is wrong.