Builders Exchange of Washington

Access project opportunities from anywhere 24/7

Become a Member

Membership Benefits

Access to 100s of Projects

  • Access project documents from the convenience of your home, office, or jobsite
  • Select the right projects for your firm
  • Instantly access and review hundreds of project opportunities
  • Bid at any given moment
  • Print project documents from the convenience of your own printer/plotter or obtain overnight copies from one of numerous reprographic houses

Eliminate Headaches

  • Eliminate the need to shell out non-refundable deposits
  • Eliminate the time and expense associated with pick-up and delivery of bid documents
  • Commence estimating/take-off work immediately
  • Utilize our simple to use online digitizer - Estimators are provided with a tool that enables them to quantify a project in a fraction of the time, over traditional wheel/tape/scale methods

BWXA Difference

  • We have been in the industry for over 25 years. We get the best bids in the state!
  • Your company's contact information will appear on our sub & suppliers list, linked from every project.
  • No hidden costs, junk fees, territorial membership fees, pay per look fees, view only, must order print fees, or exorbitant print order charges from reprographic houses
  • Full customer support
  • Monthly training and education seminars

FastBid Pioneers

The Builders Exchange of Washington is one of the first plan centers in the nation to move online what traditionally was the laborious, painstaking process of preparing subcontracting bids. The Builders Exchange now hosts building plans for hundreds of projects across the United States.

The Builders Exchange’s proprietary FastBid online system allows those in the building industry to review building documents and to measure, estimate and prepare construction bids with complete accuracy, all from BXWA’s web site. Architects, general contractors, subcontractors and others now are able to prepare bids and review building documents any hour of the day or night from their office or work site without traveling to a plan center. In addition, project architects and general contractors save the expense of preparing numerous sets of drawing plans. Now one set of plans posted on the BXWA web site can provide information to unlimited numbers of users at once.

Our Company

When BXWA founder Cheri French opened the Snohomish County Plan Center in September 1986, she already was an experienced Snohomish County businesswoman, but she had no idea what technology lay ahead. From a start with one computer in 1997, The Builders Exchange today runs on computer systems powerful enough to hold complete building plans for projects such as Safeco Field and hundreds of other projects from local schools to California shopping centers. Through innovation, BXWA continues to save those in the building industry time and money.

The Builders Exchange’s FastBid online bidding system is taught through construction management programs at Edmonds Community College, Central Washington University, University of Washington, Bellingham Technical College, University of Houston, Missouri State University, Pittsburg State University and University of Central Missouri.

"Builders Exchange of Washington's online plan center and estimating tool have been a game changer for my construction management business and have been my go to resource for over 13 years"

Stu Allen | Founder, Allen Construction Associates