Bid Intelligence
Caliche prices every line item on your Excel or PDF bid tab against 1.6 million+ real Texas bids — then shows you THE LINE — where comparable jobs cleared, and exactly where your number stands against it. Pick your posture, fine-tune, download the filled file. Not numbers on a screen — the actual file.
THE LINE
PROFESSIONALEvery other tool hands you a number. Caliche shows you THE LINE — where comparable Texas jobs your size actually cleared, drawn from a real cohort. The money sits at the sharp low end, above a hard floor — price below it and you're giving margin away. Pick your posture — aggressive, competitive, or premium — and your number moves against the line in real time. You always know exactly where you stand: under it, on it, or over it.
The Receipts
PROFESSIONALEvery verdict is backed by the comparable awarded jobs behind it — each a real winning bid, line for line. Cycle through the jobs your size and see exactly how this scope has cleared before. Not a model's opinion — the public record.
Your real costs
The market is the baseline, not the ceiling. Drop in your subs' quotes and Caliche re-prices those line items around your actual costs — and flags every line where your number beats or trails the market, so nothing slips.
1.6 million+
Real TX bid observations
80,000+
Unique line items tracked
~1%
Median over the winner in Houston · 1,870 blind bids
5-tab
Excel bid package returned
That ~1% is the Houston median across 1,870 real Texas bids priced blind — each job's own prices stripped from the data first, measured against the actual winning bid. Statewide the median is ~3%, while the typical competing bid ran ~11% over. Medians, not a per-job promise. Not a lab number — a track record.
The priced workbook
This is what comes back — your schedule, every item priced against real bids, each tagged for confidence, ready to drop into the filled Excel package.
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Upload the Excel or PDF file the agency sent you — from Bonfire, ESBD, a city portal, or any TX agency. Caliche accepts both formats.
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Caliche matches each item against 1.6 million+ real Texas bid observations and returns Low, Mid, and High price ranges — calibrated to your county, agency type, and project scope.
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Get back a 5-tab Excel bid package with overhead, profit, and bonding already applied. The same file the agency sent you — filled in, ready to submit.
No black box. Each line shows the candidate item it matched, the observation count behind it, and what scope differences were ignored — so every number traces to real bids you can defend.
Caliche flags every line that needs your eyes — no market data, or thin confidence — so you never submit a number you did not see. The total updates live as you confirm each.
Prices are weighted by market: Houston Public Works runs 30–40% above MUD and developer work. Caliche knows the difference.
Your overhead, profit, and bonding defaults apply to every bid automatically — and you can override any unit cost inline. Changes recalculate the total instantly.
Every line item carries a confidence tag (High / Medium / Limited) based on how many real observations fed the number — so you know which prices carry weight before you sign.
Cover · Bid Summary · Unit Prices · Cost Analysis · Exclusions — the exact file the agency sent you, filled in, ready to submit.
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