Bills of material and proposals, drafted from the bid set for your estimator to check.

An estimator opens the bid set, finds the security plans and the door and camera schedules, and counts: card readers, door contacts, request-to-exit devices, the locks your bid furnishes, cameras by type, motion and glass-break sensors, panels, power supplies and cable drops. Each count becomes a line from the price book, labor goes on by device and by working condition, and the proposal adds scope, clarifications and exclusions.

In the proof of concept, AI does the same from copies: it reads the plans, schedules and spec sections, counts what they show, prices it from your parts list and labor units, and writes the proposal in your format, with every line pointing to the sheet or paragraph it came from. Nothing goes to a GC, a consultant or an end user.

One door, three sections. When MasterFormat 2016 was rebuilt, security cabling, with its conduits, backboxes and cable trays, moved into Division 27 under 27 15 01, Communications Horizontal Cabling Applications, and power sources for electronic safety and security, from 12 to 24 volt supplies to PoE, got a category of their own. A door hardware product manager quoted in The Construction Specifier described a coordination schedule, Section 08 06 71, with a column naming the section responsible for each component of an opening. He noted that 08 71 00 may bid before the Division 28 package, which usually comes out with the electrical, and that the 28 13 00 contractor almost always makes the end-of-line terminations. So the draft lists, door by door, which items your bid carries and which sit with the hardware supplier or the electrician, as the spec assigns them.

Banned makers on federal work. Where a contract carries FAR 52.204-25, the contractor can't provide equipment that uses covered telecommunications or video surveillance equipment as a substantial or essential component of a system. The covered video makers are Hikvision, Dahua and Hytera, with subsidiaries and affiliates, when the equipment serves public safety, security of government facilities, surveillance of critical infrastructure or other national security purposes, and covered equipment found during the work must be reported within one business day. The draft flags every camera, recorder and radio line from that list; whether a job falls under the clause stays with your PM.

Spec words that change a part number. A video section may require ONVIF conformance, and ONVIF counts a product as conformant only when it is registered against a profile: Profiles D, G, M, S and T for video, A, C, D and M for access control. An access control section may call for readers that support OSDP, the SIA protocol the IEC published as 60839-11-5 in 2020. The draft carries each requirement onto its line and flags a part from your price book that doesn't show it.

Counts that look right and still miss. Horizontal cable under TIA-568 runs no more than 90 meters as a permanent link, inside a 100 meter channel with the cords, so a camera far from the nearest telecom room is a question for your designer, not a longer line on the BOM. Cable jackets follow the space: plenum-rated CMP above a plenum ceiling, riser-rated CMR in a shaft. Addenda add and delete devices after the first count. The draft flags each of these with its sheet and leaves the answer to your estimator.

What your reviewer will watch: device counts against the schedules and plans, items your bid furnishes kept apart from the hardware supplier's, labor by device and condition from your own units, the exclusions your company always writes, such as conduit, line-voltage power or patching by others, and any device the drawings don't show, which the draft never adds.

Once your reviewer says yes, the same job runs on new bids for about 30 days.

Your estimator approves every bill of material and proposal before it goes to a GC, a consultant or an end user, and only your designers decide what a system needs.

You agree the live job's fixed price before signing. RMR contracts, or whichever job you choose next, get their own price, and monthly support starts once a job is running.