Bid Templates — 4 Job Types
Four ready-to-use templates — kitchen, bathroom, deck, and room addition — each pre-filled with a typical scope and realistic starting costs, and priced on your margin the same way the Bid Calculator does. Pick the one closest to your job, adjust the numbers to your scope and market, and read your bid price. Minutes, not a from-scratch build.
XLSX workbook · one-time purchase · pairs with the Bid Calculator
Sample bids at 30% margin + 10% contingency. Swap in your own costs and the price updates.
Staring at an empty spreadsheet is how bids get put off, rushed, or missed entirely. A template with the scope already laid out — every line item you're likely to need, with a realistic starting number beside it — turns estimating from a chore into a ten-minute adjustment. You're editing a real bid, not building one from nothing, and the margin math is already handled.
What's inside
A mid-range kitchen scope — cabinets, counters, plumbing, electrical, flooring, tile, and install labor.
A full-bath scope — demo, plumbing, shower/tub, tile, vanity, waterproofing, and labor.
A composite deck — footings, framing, decking, railings, stairs, hardware, and build labor.
A ~400 sq ft addition — foundation, framing, roofing, windows, siding, MEP, drywall, finishes.
A one-page guide and sourced notes on the costs, contingency, and margin-vs-markup math.
Bid = total cost ÷ (1 − margin), plus a contingency — the same discipline as the Bid Calculator.
How it fits together
Templates for speed; the Bid Calculator for depth.
These four templates get a bid on paper in minutes. When you need the full build — labor burden, overhead recovery, the margin-vs-markup readout line by line — the Job Estimating & Bid Calculator is the deep tool. Buy them together and you've got both the quick start and the full workshop.
Get the templates
Kitchen, bathroom, deck, and room addition — pre-filled, priced on margin, ready to adjust. A perfect add-on to the Bid Calculator. One-time purchase.
Building bids from scratch too? Pair it with the Job Estimating & Bid Calculator ($149).
Questions
No — it's the fast start. These four templates come pre-filled so you're adjusting a real scope instead of building from scratch. For a full line-by-line custom bid with labor burden and overhead recovery, use the Job Estimating & Bid Calculator; these pair perfectly with it.
They're realistic mid-range starting figures, not a quote for your project. Costs vary a lot by region, finish level, and site conditions, so every number is a placeholder to replace with yours — the template saves you the blank page and the list of line items.
Price = cost including contingency / (1 - gross margin). The selected margin is modeled before overhead and changes in actual costs; it is not guaranteed profit.
Each download purchase arrives as a ZIP containing the listed XLSX workbook(s) and PDF buyer guide. Open in Excel or import a copy into Google Sheets; verify formulas, dropdowns and layout. Native application compatibility has not been fully certified.
Yes. Add, edit, or delete line items on any template to match your scope, and you can copy a tab to build your own job type from one of the four included.