RFPs, sent from where the work already lives
We've put Request for Proposal creation directly inside the subcontractors list, so the people you already work with are one click away from a new bid.
If you've ever managed a project bid, you know the shape of the problem: you have a shortlist of subs in your head (and your spreadsheet, and your inbox), and somewhere in another tab you have a templated RFP you're about to copy-paste five times. The two halves of the job — who you're asking and what you're asking for — live in completely different places. So we moved them together.
The directory is the starting line
The subcontractors list has always been the source of truth for who you work with. It's where you check if you've used an electrician before, what trades a partner covers, and whether a relationship is current. It was the obvious place to start an RFP from — but until now, it wasn't.
With this release, you can open a subcontractor straight from the directory and kick off a Request for Proposal from their detail page Send a Request for Proposal to a Subcontractor. No re-keying contact info, no separate "new RFP" workflow that asks you to look up the same person you were just looking at. The bid request is anchored to the relationship, not floating in a separate system.
One request, many subs
Most RFPs aren't sent to one subcontractor — they're sent to a handful, because that's how you get a real read on price and availability. The new flow treats that as the default rather than the exception: a single RFP can go out to one or more subcontractors at once Send a Request for Proposal to a Subcontractor. You write the scope once, pick your shortlist, and send.
That matters for a reason that's easy to overlook: when every recipient is attached to the same underlying request, the responses come back into the same place. You're comparing bids, not reconciling threads.
Sent RFPs, where you'd expect to find them
Once a request goes out, it shows up in an RFPs section on the subcontractor's page, so you can see what you've asked a given partner for without leaving their record Send a Request for Proposal to a Subcontractor. It's a small thing, but it closes the loop the directory was missing — the people view now reflects the work view.
What's next
This is the first cut, and the obvious next steps are about what happens after you hit send: tracking responses, surfacing overdue replies, and making it easier to turn a winning bid into the next step of the project. We'll have more to share on that soon. For now, the shortest path from "I need a price on this" to "the request is out" runs through the subcontractors list — which is where it should have been all along.