Case Study
KMSS is a security and technology installation firm in North Providence, Rhode Island. Their estimators are experienced, and their process worked — it just didn’t scale. Every bid meant reading the same source documents by hand, twice: once to build the bid, once to scope the awarded work.
That manual review tied up their most experienced estimators, capped the number of bids they could realistically pursue, and left inconsistencies in the source documents easy to miss. The bottleneck wasn’t effort. It was the hours lost to reading and re-reading documents that bid management software could structure automatically.
Download the case study and learn more about how we helped KMSS bid more – and win more – with the same headcount.
What You’ll Learn
- The double-handling problem — Why KMSS read every bid package twice, once to build the bid and again to scope the awarded work, and what that repetition cost them in bid volume.
- The full KMSS story — How a security and technology installation firm moved off disconnected tools and onto Parse, and what changed in their bidding workflow as a result.
- The workflow, mapped — How Parse fits a real bidding process: RFP received, uploaded, extracted and analyzed, inconsistencies flagged, verified, and exported, with a person confirming the data at every step.
- Where the inconsistencies were hiding — The kinds of source-document discrepancies KMSS started catching once extraction happened before review rather than during it.
- The measurable results — A customer-reported reduction of nearly half in initial document review time, reduced manual effort, and improved bid accuracy, with the specifics behind each.
- In their own words — Jesse Emerson, Director of Operations at KMSS, on what the tool gave back to his team and how it compares to the estimating tools they used before.
