The ProcurePro Alternative for Builders Done Adding Point Solutions
Faster tendering. So what?
ProcurePro does one thing: it lets the package. Then the subcontract goes to Procore, the claims go to PayApps, the cost goes to Jobpac and the safety goes to HammerTech. Every point solution solves one room and adds another login, another subscription and another place for the numbers to drift. Deep Space is the whole house, from tender to final claim, office to site.
5 Reasons ANZ Commercial Builders Choose Deep Space Over ProcurePro
Not a feature checklist. Every point solution looks good in its own demo. Here's what changes when the whole project runs in one place.
Scope
One room: tender, level, award. Everything after award happens somewhere else.
One platform across preconstruction, procurement, commercial, programme, documents, delivery and HSEQ.
Stack shape
ProcurePro plus Procore or Jobpac, a payment claims app, a safety app, and Xero for the ledger.
Deep Space web app in the office, DS Site in the field, Xero as your ledger. No middleware.
Pricing model
Annual licence scaled to business size, on top of every other system in the stack.
Flat annual fee. Unlimited projects, users, subbies and consultants.
Bid levelling
Quotes levelled against the other bids.
Bids levelled line by line against your own estimate and budget, with priced exclusions, deviations and contingency.
After award
Contract handed to another system to manage.
Award & Convert turns the winning bid into a subcontract or PO, then claims, payment schedules and variations.
What builders actually say
(...some very real conversations)
From real evaluation and implementation calls with commercial builders running ProcurePro across Australia and New Zealand.
ProcurePro Is One Room. Deep Space Is the Whole House.
ProcurePro is a good procurement tool, and plenty of tier two builders run it. But it's a room, not a house. ProcurePro, PayApps, Jobpac, HammerTech and EstimateOne each solve one room well. The builder pays for every one of them, and the team carries the data between them.
Deep Space is built here, with builders here, as the whole house. The estimate, the bid, the subcontract, the claims and the forecast sit on one thread of cost, so nothing is re-keyed. CCA and SOPA compliant claims, NZS 3910 and AS 4000, GST and native Xero.
- Tenders in ProcurePro, costs somewhere else.
- Subcontracts re-keyed after award.
- Claims and variations in another system.
- One thread of cost. Estimate, budget, commitments, claims and forecast, linked.
- Native Xero sync. Contacts, bills, invoices and paid status. No middleware.
- CCA and SOPA compliant claims. Payment schedules, sliding retention, NZS 3910 and AS 4000.
KAI Reads the Quotes. Your Team Makes the Call.
Every point solution has AI now. ProcurePro's BidLevel reads quotes, and that's useful inside one room. The so-what is what happens to the answer next.
KAI scope levelling reads every quote in a trade, shows what they all include and what each one leaves out, puts every price on one GST footing against your estimate, and drafts the questions to send each subcontractor. Then the award flows straight into the subcontract, the budget and the forecast. AI that only works in one room still leaves your team carrying the result to the next one.
What KAI does in your tender
Reading quotes
AI reads supplier quotes into a breakdown.
KAI reads every quote in the trade into one view.
Exclusions
Extracted from each quote.
Priced as allowances, so bids compare like for like.
Benchmark
Against the submitted bids.
Against your own estimate, budget and PQS figure.
Clarifications
Raised by the team.
Drafted per subcontractor, ready to send.
Every Point Solution Adds a Room. One Platform Replaces All of It
ProcurePro for tendering, Procore or Aconex for documents, EstimateOne for invitations, PayApps for claims, Jobpac for cost, HammerTech for safety and Xero for the ledger. Each one is good at its room. Together they're seven logins, seven subscriptions and seven places for the numbers to drift.
The problem isn't any one tool. It's the gaps between them.
What's actually native in Deep Space:
- Native Xero sync for contacts, bills, invoices, payment status and tracking categories, including regional P&L by department.
- Built-in subcontractor tendering with KAI scope levelling, so the levelled bid flows straight into the subcontract and the budget.
- Native programme module that ingests MS Project files and drives the procurement schedule, so nothing is let late.
- HSEQ from DS Site covers inductions, SWMS sign-on, incidents, inspections and daily site sign-in, in one native app.
Three weeks. Hands-on.
Built around your project.
Most platforms are places teams go to file documents and generate reports after the work has already happened. Deep Space is where the work runs, with intelligence built into every workflow.
Procurement and programme side by side
Procurement schedule
Tracked in ProcurePro
Lead times, required on site and risk, linked to PO and subcontract value
Lead-ins
Set in the procurement schedule
Driven by the live programme, so nothing is let late
Vendor management
Vendor management module
Company Directory with compliance, expiring documents, inductions and performance
After award
Contract handed to Procore or Jobpac
Award & Convert to subcontract or PO, then claims and variations
Site to office
Outside ProcurePro
DS Site sign-on, inductions and SWMS, straight into the project
We're not pretending to win in every dimension. There are areas where ProcurePro goes deeper, and areas where the right answer is to keep what you have. Here's what we tell you straight.
ProcurePro's AI Pricing Library benchmarks trade rates across its wider dataset. Deep Space levels bids against your own estimate, budget and PQS figure. If market-wide rate benchmarking drives your buying, tell us early.
ProcurePro integrates with Procore, Aconex and Jobpac as a procurement layer. Deep Space is the whole platform. If you're committed to keeping those systems for delivery and cost, we'll be straight about the overlap.
Deep Space integrates natively with Xero and keeps it as your ledger. If you're on another accounting system, ask us before you assume it's a fit.
ProcurePro, in builders' own words
Credit where it's due: ProcurePro does tendering well, and builders who run it say so. The question isn't whether it's good. It's whether you want one more point solution.
Coming off ProcurePro is
simpler than you think
No big-bang cutover. We take your scope library, vendor list, conditions and cost codes, map them into Deep Space, and get your team letting real packages within weeks of signing.
See your ProcurePro stack mapped to Deep Space.
30 minutes with the team. Bring your current setup. We'll show you exactly how the workflows you run today translate into Deep Space, what you replace, and what stays. No generic demo.
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