The company’s inaugural e-Merge Bid conference drew 300+ industry professionals around a single question: are you bidding strategically, or just bidding?
Gainesville, Fla. — April 10, 2026 — Civil construction contractors review far more project opportunities than they can realistically pursue – and the cost of chasing the wrong ones is significant. Infotech is solving that problem with Bid Intelligence, a new AI-powered suite of tools available through its BidX platform that helps contractors identify high-fit opportunities, reduce bid risk, and shift from reactive to strategic decision-making.
Infotech’s inaugural e-Merge Bid virtual conference, held April 1, brought together more than 300 civil construction professionals to explore how data and AI are reshaping the bid lifecycle – and how contractors can get ahead of the shift.
“The challenge facing civil construction professionals today is not just finding projects — it is deciding where to focus,” said Karoliina Torttila, Senior Director of AI at Infotech. “Attention is the scarcest resource in the infrastructure market. What the industry needs most right now is bid intelligence that scales.”
A major theme surfaced during the two-hour conference: the contractors who will win more work aren’t necessarily the ones bidding more. They’re the ones bidding smarter.
“AI is not going to replace estimators,” said JB Peters, Senior Director of Product Management at Infotech. “But estimators who use AI tools will outperform those who do not — and that inflection point is coming sooner than many people think.”
The conference closed with a fireside chat featuring leaders from Ohio’s public infrastructure ecosystem – representing contractors, agencies, and engineering firms – who affirmed that the gap between the volume of available opportunities and the capacity to evaluate them well is real, and the industry is ready for tools that close it.
That’s exactly what Bid Intelligence is designed to do. Available through Infotech’s BidX platform, it uses AI to proactively surface high-fit bidding opportunities, analyze competitive patterns, and give contractors the data they need to answer not just “Can we bid this?” — but “Should we?”
The April 1 e-Merge event was the first of four virtual thought leadership conferences Infotech is hosting this year to discuss the full construction project life cycle and how Infotech is using Unified Civil Intelligence to lead the industry into a seamless plan, estimate, bid, build lifecycle.
Learn more about Infotech’s BidX and Bid Intelligence at infotechinc.com/bidx-features. Learn more about e-Merge at infotechinc.com/emerge.
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About Infotech
Info Tech Operating, LLC, DBA Infotech (Infotech) is a leading SaaS solutions provider for the infrastructure construction industry and developer of the industry’s first end-to-end civil construction platform. Informed by DOT relationships and decades of experience, Infotech develops software solutions that bridge the gaps between owners, consultants, contractors, and other project stakeholders. Whether it be tools for construction administration and inspection or secure online bidding, Infotech’s solutions are built to increase transparency, productivity, and the availability of data. Infotech is the developer of Appia®, Bid Express®, Signet®, and Doc Express®, as well as the official contractor for AASHTOWare Project™.