What software helps a building-materials supplier bid cabinet packages for production builders?

A building-materials supplier bids cabinet packages for production builders with plan-based bidding software that keeps each builder's pricing, prices a base house and every upgrade for each plan, and exports a cover sheet for the builder. KitchenDEV Builder Programs is that kind of software: a pricing and bidding system for builder services suppliers, where the unit of work is a plan bid across a community instead of a single kitchen.

A plan bid is the price of one house plan's cabinet package for one builder: a base house the builder pays for, plus the price of each upgrade the homebuyer can choose.

How is a builder bid different from a showroom quote?#

A showroom quote prices one kitchen for the person who will cook in it. A builder bid prices a plan that gets built again and again across a community, for a builder who pays for the base house while homebuyers pay for upgrades.

Two questions settle which one a supplier needs. Does the supplier price a base house the builder pays for, with everything above it sold to the homebuyer as an upgrade? And does the supplier hand the builder a sheet showing the base package and the price of every option? A yes to both means builder bids. Selling to builders is not enough on its own. A supplier pricing one house at a time for small custom builders, with no base house and no option sheet, needs showroom quoting software instead.

What should builder bidding software do?#

• Hold each builder's pricing. KitchenDEV Builder Programs stores each builder's pricing as a series, with its own door, hardware and crown levels and its own multipliers. How those levels work is covered in how suppliers price each builder by option level.
• Bring in the plan. A plan drawn in Design Flex (formerly 2020 Design) can be imported, with accessory items coming in as accessories, or built straight from the vendor catalog.
• Price the base house. KitchenDEV Builder Programs picks the cheapest option in each category for the base house and shows a base house price summary on the bid.
• Price by market. Labor is priced per market, and changing the market on an existing bid recalculates the labor.
• Price add-ons per door. Since September 2026, add-ons such as soft-close doors are set per vendor catalog with their own cost and margin, and charged from each cabinet's door count.
• Export the cover sheet. KitchenDEV Builder Programs exports one Excel cover sheet per plan, with the base house price and every upgrade listed from cheapest to most expensive. The steps are in building a builder cover sheet faster than in Excel.

Who uses builder bidding software at a building-materials supplier?#

Estimators, purchasing managers and VPs of builder services use KitchenDEV Builder Programs. Their companies go by several names: builder services suppliers, LBM dealers with a cabinet division, and interior finishes companies. Labor and freight on each bid, the part installed sales teams ask about first, are covered in cabinet bidding software for installed sales and interior finishes suppliers.

What does a supplier send to get set up?#

KitchenDEV builds the vendor catalogs from the spec books and price sheets the supplier sends. Setting up KitchenDEV Builder Programs also takes:

• the builder list, and which program each builder is on
• the markets served, with freight rates per market, and per vendor where those differ
• the cover sheet the supplier uses today, as a file, so the exported sheet can match it

What does KitchenDEV Builder Programs not do?#

• Percentage upcharges. Percentage-based attributes and upcharges are not supported in KitchenDEV Builder Programs.
• Bid history from another system. Bids from a previous system cannot be imported into KitchenDEV Builder Programs.

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