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The smarter way Head Contractors tender

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E1’s Tender Management Platform ensures Head Contractors can get to market in a matter of moments. Speed up your send-outs, make data-driven supply chain decisions, and reduce the risk of cost blowouts at the time of delivery.

Creating trade packages and sending documents to subcontractors takes minutes, not days.

With your company’s Supply Chain information in one central location, you’ll be able to make smarter decisions about who is best set to receive an enquiry for each job you tender.

Outdated info, gone. Leveraging Australia’s largest construction network, access a living database of over 40,000 subcontractors and suppliers. Connect your existing addressbook to the network to ensure up to date contact and project history data, or search the network to connect with new subcontractors.

Why over 900 builders trust E1 as the industry standard

Get to market in a matter of moments

Subcontractor Network

40,000+

subcontractor and supplier profiles on the network

Marketing leading

22,334

tenders listed in 2024 alone

Building Australia

$321B

worth tenders listed in 2024

Key Benefits

Safer

Smarter procurement decisions

  • Stay informed with up-to-date subcontractor data, ensuring you’re always working with the most accurate details on qualifications, compliance, and availability.
  • Make smarter choices with full quote and project history included in every subcontractor profile, giving you the context you need to compare bids with confidence.
  • Eliminate the risk of outdated quotes with live data showing exactly which version of project documents each subcontractor is quoting from.
Faster

Much faster tender sendouts

  • Break down project documents in minutes, not days with E1’s document matrix, making package allocation fast and effortless.
  • Easily control who sees what with a multi-step invite process that lets you assign trades and subcontractors to the right packages with just a few clicks.
  • Keep everyone on the same page with automated addenda management that flags superseded documents and notifies only the subcontractors who need to know.
Better

Better quote coverage

  • Fill gaps in your trade coverage with ease by tapping into E1’s network of over 40,000 subcontractors, ensuring you always have coverage for the tender.
  • Get more quotes with less effort by posting your project to E1’s noticeboard, reaching nearly 100,000 subcontractors actively looking for work.
  • Spot trade coverage issues at a glance with a single view of where your project stands, helping you act fast to secure the quotes you need.

E1 Network

Access Australia’s largest network of construction subcontractors

Live data

Project history

Fill trade coverage gaps

E1 Network

Access Australia’s largest network of construction subcontractors

The E1 network gives main contractors direct access to over 40,000 subcontractors, making it easy to fill trade coverage gaps fast.

Profiles include up-to-date data, from qualifications to project history, so you can make informed decisions with confidence.

Living database

Smarter, connected Address Book

Up-to date

Enriched data

Safer tendering

Living database

Smarter, connected Address Book

We hook your address book data up and reference it with our network.

We’ll then update any of the outdated info and populate the profile with the qualifications and project history we can find. We can help you maintain and continuously sync accurate, reliable address book data.

Doc Matrix

Create trade packages in a matter of moments

Quick and easy

Fast shortcuts

Increase speed to market

Doc Matrix

Create trade packages in a matter of moments

Split up your documents into trade-specific packages in just a few clicks.

Ensure your supply chain isn’t wading through a mountain of drawings by curating trade-specific packages from one birds-eye view.

Addenda Wizard

Automatically supersede addendum documents

Reduce risk

Less stress for subbies

Increase speed to market

Addenda Wizard

Automatically supersede addendum documents

Streamline your addenda process and reduce emails by using E1’s auto-revision wizard.

E1’s Addenda Wizard automates revising documents when you upload new drawings, meaning less time sifting through PDFs, more time in market, and less emails for your supply chain.

Pricing to suit all

A plan to suit builder businesses of all sizes

Builder Core

$6000

(+GST, Billed Annually)

Previously named 'Tender'

List tenders publicly or privately, with all subcontractor details seamlessly managed in your address book

  • Unlimited public and private projects
  • Import and manage your own private address book of subbies on E1
  • Track quotes, response rates and maintain audit trails on correspondance
  • Receive competitive quotes from Australia's top subbie marketplace
  • Automate project creation and addenda management
  • Showcase you active projects on a company branded tender portal
  • Enjoy personalised phone support

Builder Enterprise

On Request

Advanced tendering for high-value, security-focused projects and established estimating teams

  • Everything in Builder Business and:
  • Login with Single Sign-on (SSO) for secure and seamless access to E1
  • Enforce team-based permissions, user roles, with administrator controls
  • Benefit from a dedicated account manager

We help builders, subcontractors and suppliers connect and win more work.

Trusted by Great builders

I started my job in estimating almost 2 years ago and since then have had to use almost every tender package program available. E1 stands head and shoulders above the pack as the easiest to use and the best place to get information on jobs. I find myself on it every day without fail.

Mitchell VIC