The Latest BuildWorks Canada Platform Updates

Release Notes

November 12th, 2020

In our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best service and project opportunities, the new BuildWorks platform launched on April 6th, 2020.  Since then, the BuildWorks team has been working diligently to re-establish services you’ve come to expect from BuildWorks, while also building new offerings designed to enhance your user experience.

Features and fixes from our October 12th update

  • Invitation to Bid - multiple fixes and improvements
  • Ability for users to edit company information
  • Saved Search improvements
  • Project Sheet configuration
  • Improvements to Advertising functionality
  • Bug fixes and improvements

Next release is scheduled for December, 10th

Items being worked on for future implementation

  • Public Directory
  • Multi-Select Documents for Download
  • Bulletin Report
  • Default Membership Zones
  • Bid Matching email improvements
  • Improved multi-word & multi-stage search functionality

For helpful videos, including a full platform walk through, please visit the BuildWorks website or YouTube channel.

October 15th, 2020

In our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best service and project opportunities, the new BuildWorks platform launched on April 6th, 2020.  Since then, the BuildWorks team has been working diligently to re-establish services you’ve come to expect from BuildWorks, while also building new offerings designed to enhance your user experience.

Features and fixes from our October 15th update

  • Invitation to Bid - multiple fixes and improvements, ready for use
  • Time Zone fixes
  • Public User Registration
  • Improvements to Bids & Tenders Synchronization
  • Improvements to Advertising feature
  • Live Chat functionality has been added

Next release is scheduled for November, 12th

Items being worked on for future implementation

  • Public Directory
  • Multi-Select Documents for Download
  • Bulletin Report
  • Default Membership Zones
  • Bid Matching email improvements
  • Improved multi-word search functionality
  • Ability to update company information
  • Search by Company
  • Improved estimated value functionality

For helpful videos, including a full platform walk through, please visit the BuildWorks website or YouTube channel.

August 20th, 2020

In our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best service and project opportunities, the new BuildWorks platform launched on April 6th, 2020.  Since then, the BuildWorks team has been working diligently to re-establish services you’ve come to expect from BuildWorks, while also building new offerings designed to enhance your user experience.

Features and fixes from our August 20th update

  • Sort by city in project search results
  • Document download progress bar
  • Performance enhancement for downloading Activity Report
  • Sort results based on keyword density for Document Search
  • Filter out Document Search results with 0 keyword density (Bug Fix)
  • Back button issue with document search default (Bug Fix)
  • Enhancement to Bids & Tenders integration

Next release is scheduled for Sept. 20th

Items being worked on for future implementation

  • User Registration process
  • Public directory
  • Enhancements to Invitation to Bid
  • Bulletin Reports & Project Sheet Printing

For helpful videos, including a full platform walk through, please visit the BuildWorks website or YouTube channel.

June 25th, 2020

In our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best service and project opportunities, the new BuildWorks platform launched on April 6th, 2020.  Since then, the BuildWorks team has been working diligently to re-establish services you’ve come to expect from BuildWorks, while also building new offerings designed to enhance your user experience.

Features now available from our June 25th Update

  • Improvements to the Document Search
  • Ability to share zip and png files
  • mobile improvements across the platform
  • Activity Reports
  • Moved database to new dedicated server for improved performance

Next release is scheduled for July 9th

Items being worked on for future implementation

  • User Registration process
  • Public directory
  • Enhancements to Invitation to Bid
  • Bulletin Reports
  • Improved Document Indexing
  • Improved efficiency on Daily Bid Matching Email

For helpful videos, including a full platform walk through, please visit the BuildWorks website or YouTube channel.

June 12th, 2020

In our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best service and project opportunities, the new BuildWorks platform launched on April 6th, 2020.  Since then, the BuildWorks team has been working diligently to re-establish some services you’ve come to expect from BuildWorks, while also building new offerings designed to enhance your user experience.

Features now available from our June 12th Update

  • Invitation to Bid Functionality
  • Document Search with keyword density
  • Document search from the project sheet
  • Advertising
  • A number of Administrative improvements
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Contact information for Project Contacts displaying
    • Export to Excel respecting date ranges and search criteria
    • A number of Administrative bugs

Next release is scheduled for June 25th

We plan to include the below features and improvements in this update.

  • User Registration process
  • Public directory
  • Enhancements to Invitation to Bid
  • Bulletin Reports

For helpful videos, including a full platform walk through, please visit the BuildWorks website or YouTube channel.

May 29th, 2020

In our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best service and project opportunities, the new BuildWorks platform launched on April 6th, 2020  Since then, the BuildWorks team has been working diligently to re-establish some services you’ve come to expect from BuildWorks, while also building new offerings designed to enhance your user experience.

Features now available from our May 29th Update

  • Improved 'I'm Bidding' functionality
  • Removed 'Closed' project notices from member dashboard
  • 'Back' button on search results will show original search criteria (bug fix)
  • Fixes to Daily Bid Matching email
  • Improvements to Map display option on search results
  • Addition of Service Regions to company profile
  • Administrative improvements

Next release is scheduled for June 12th

Larger Features we are working on….

  • User Registration process
  • Public directory
  • Invitation to Bid
  • Advanced Document searching for members
  • Mobile Experience
  • Advertising
  • Bulletin Reports

For helpful videos, including a full platform walkthrough, please visit the BuildWorks website or youtube channel.

May 15th, 2020

In our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best service and project opportunities, the new BuildWorks platform launched on April 6th.  Since then, the BuildWorks team has been working diligently to re-establish some services you’ve come to expect from BuildWorks, while also building new offerings designed to enhance your user experience.

Features now available from our May 15th Update

  • Project search has ability to load 50 or 100 results
  • Ability to “opt out” of daily opportunity emails from the email body
  • "I am bidding" feature
    • Members can say if they are “bidding” and they will appear on the proponent list and join the follower list in one click
    • Member can chose to display their individual contact info or the company info
  • Performance update to member project view
  • Logo in top left will link to Dashboard
  • Admins can choose to BCC on “Follower” email
  • Member dashboard to show all followed projects (bug fix)

Next release is scheduled for May 29th.

Larger Features we are working on….

  • User Registration process
  • Public directory
  • Invitation to Bid
  • Advanced Document searching for members
  • Mobile Experience

For helpful videos, including a full platform walkthrough, please visit the BuildWorks website or youtube channel.

May 1st, 2020

In our ongoing commitment to providing you with the best service and project opportunities, the new BuildWorks platform launched on April 6th.  Since then, the BuildWorks team has been working diligently to re-establish some services you’ve come to expect from BuildWorks, while also building new offerings designed to enhance your user experience.

Features available soon:

  • The “I’m Bidding” Button:  we understand how valuable this feature is to you and your business; it will return in the coming weeks.  In the meantime, please email us directly and ask to be added as a bidder and interested proponent.
  • Document Search: this will also return in the coming weeks, with great visibility into which specific documents contain your critical keywords.

*Search Tip:  When you click project search you will see a preview result of everything in the platform.  Use your search filters on the left hand menu – specifically the “zone” to narrow in on local opportunities.

Items we are addressing:

  • Document Download Speed:  We know there have been problems related to download speed and we are actively working on a platform-wide solution.
  • Saved Searches:  We will have your favorite saved searches back in the system soon.
  • Multi-Stage Searching:  We know you often want to see Open, Results, and Awarded projects all in the same search table.  This feature will return soon.

For helpful videos, including a full platform walkthrough, please visit the BuildWorks website or youtube channel.

Thank you for your continued patience as we continue the platform transition.