Bid With Torch

Inviting Torch to bid

The fastest bid invitation is a drawing set. Send the current plans, the project address, the bid deadline, and the scope you want priced — structural, MEP, civil, or the coordinated package — through our request a proposal page or the contact page. A human being reviews every invitation. Qualifying scopes move straight to a priced proposal; scopes that are not a fit get a direct answer instead of silence, because a fast no is worth more to your bid schedule than a slow maybe.

Torch bids as the engineering partner behind the design: permit-ready, PE-sealed drawings backed by Apex Grid Engineering, licensed in 49 states with 10+ PEs and 20+ engineers on the bench. We bid for general contractors, developers, owners, and design teams who need engineering that keeps the permit — and the project — moving.

What a complete bid invitation includes

Invitations that get priced fastest carry five things: the drawing set in its current state (PDF is perfect — markups and half-finished sets are welcome), the project address and jurisdiction, the scope list by discipline, the deliverable you need (permit set, calculations, sealed review, or a named combination), and your deadline — both the bid due date and the construction start it feeds. If a geotechnical report, a correction letter, or a landlord criteria document exists, send it with the invitation. Missing documents do not disqualify a bid; discovering them after pricing is what slows one down.

How we respond

Every request is answered within 12–24 hours by a person, not an auto-reply. Qualifying scopes — a complete set, a clear jurisdiction, a defined deliverable — move straight to a priced proposal the same day. Larger or less settled scopes get a firm timeline in that first reply: what we still need, when the number will land, and who owns your job. One contact owns the work from bid to delivery, so the engineer who priced your scope is accountable for producing it.

Teaming and partner registration

Architects, civil firms, and specialty consultants who want Torch on their team — and engineering firms with overflow to place — register the same way: a short message through the contact page naming your firm, your disciplines, your markets, and the kind of work you want to team on. We keep a live bench of partners for scopes that need a specialty we do not carry in-house, and we place overflow with firms whose standards we have seen. Tell us where you are strong; that is the list we work from when a project needs you.

Bid questions, answered

How fast will we get a price?

Qualifying scopes are priced the same day the drawings arrive. Every invitation gets a human answer within 12–24 hours, even when the answer is a timeline instead of a number.

Do you bid public work?

We respond to public and institutional invitations where the scope fits our disciplines and licensing. Send the solicitation with the drawings; the first reply will confirm fit and name any registration steps the procurement requires.

What does a bid from Torch include?

A defined scope, the deliverables sheet by system, the correction rounds included, the assumptions under the price, and the schedule we are committing to. No allowances hiding in the fine print.

Can we send an incomplete set?

Yes. Markups, redlines, and half-finished sets are normal bid input. We will tell you what the price assumes and what would change it.