Receive and review the bids
Drop in each bid as it arrives — Excel, CSV, Word or a text PDF. Quote reads the priced lines, checks the bidder's arithmetic, and shows every row beside the page it came from.
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Jakten Quote
Bid evaluation for procurement packages. Jakten Quote reads each bid and checks it, levels the bids line for line against your takeoff, keeps the risks and the award on record, and publishes the award to Jakten Assurance — so you know exactly what you are buying, and why.
From bids received to award published
Three steps for every procurement package, in the order you work them.
Level them against your takeoff
Place every line on the takeoff, add the adjustments that make the bids comparable, and see each bid's leveled total and rank. Checks and the risk register show what does not add up.
Award, and publish to Assurance
Record the award with anything still open acknowledged, export the bid tabulation report, and publish the award to Jakten Assurance to compare with the estimate.
What Quote does
One package workspace: its bids, scope and takeoff, leveling, checks, risks, award, publication, letters and questions.
Bids read and checked
Excel, CSV, Word and text PDF bids are read without AI. Each row is shown beside the page it came from, the bidder's arithmetic is checked, and a new revision lists what changed.
Leveled against your takeoff
Bid lines are placed on your takeoff by WBS and unit. Adjustments for missing scope, exclusions or quantities make the bids comparable, and each bid gets a leveled total and a rank.
Checks and the risk register
Every rate and quantity is compared with the other bidders and the takeoff and, where available, the estimate basis and your rate library. The risk register records what each bid excludes or leaves silent, and what it could cost.
The award, on record
Record the award with anything still open on it acknowledged, and export the bid tabulation report in Word or PDF. An award is never edited; a new one supersedes it, with the reason.
Published to Assurance
Publish the award to Jakten Assurance as a versioned record. Assurance compares it with the estimate and flags rate, quantity, scope and indirect differences — it never changes an estimate value.
Letters and the rate library
Clarification letters are assembled from the risk register, with RFI and BAFO drafts beside them. Every confirmed unit rate builds your company's rate library, across its projects.
See Jakten Quote
Representative sample output for the structural steel package of a fictional semiconductor fab project — the screens as they ship. The two AI screens are live output.
AI proposes. A person decides.
With a Jakten AI subscription, Quote reads scanned and photographed bids and every document's fine print, suggests WBS mappings, proposes leveling adjustments and risks, drafts the award recommendation and polishes letters, and answers questions from the package's documents, quoting each passage it rests on.
Nothing AI proposes counts until someone on your team accepts it. Without AI, everything else in Quote works — offline, too.
- AI is off until a company administrator opts in
- Every suggestion waits for a person to accept, edit or reject it
- Answers cite their passages, and are instructed to label any figure they calculate
Your data is stored on your deployment
Jakten Quote runs on Jakten Platform — Windows desktop software. Bids, takeoffs and awards are stored on infrastructure you control.
Jakten AI is opt-in. Once a company administrator opts in, each AI feature sends what it works on through Jakten's gateway to the AI provider; nothing is sent before. What each feature sends and what is kept is in Jakten Quote AI Data Handling, and AI is priced on the pricing page.
Requires Jakten Platform, included with every Quote subscription at no additional charge. Jakten Quote, Jakten Assurance and Jakten Risk are separate named-user seats; a person who uses more than one holds a seat in each.
See how it is used
13 short tutorials walk the shipping client end to end — receiving and reviewing bids, the takeoff, leveling, checks and risks, the award, publishing to Assurance, letters, and the AI features.
A growing Jakten product suite
Jakten Risk, Jakten Assurance and Jakten Quote are available now. Additional Jakten products are planned for the same customer-hosted Platform — specialized modules that share users, standards, and project context over time.
Jakten Risk
How wrong could we be — and why?
Monte Carlo simulation, correlation modeling, contingency attribution, and executive reporting.
Jakten Assurance
Can we defend this number?
Estimate assurance and governance for capital projects: versions and frozen comparisons, reviews, Basis of Estimate, and governed handoff to Risk.
Jakten Quote
Which bid are we really buying?
Bid evaluation for procurement packages: bids read and checked, leveled against your takeoff, risks and the award recorded, and the award published to Assurance.
Jakten Resources
Do we have the right people and capacity?
Labor demand curves, staffing plans, and utilization forecasting for delivery teams. Not available for purchase today.
Jakten Escalation
What happens if the market moves?
Labor, commodity, and market escalation curves applied to estimate and funding models. Not available for purchase today.
Jakten Cashflow
When will the money be needed?
Spend curves, monthly cash forecasts, and liquidity planning tied to project schedules. Not available for purchase today.
Planned products are not available for purchase today. Every module is designed to share users, permissions, WBS libraries, and audit history through Jakten Platform — and your data stays in environments you control.
Know what you're buying
Buy Jakten Quote seats, complete checkout, and receive your onboarding email with installer access.