Terms of use

ScopeLine is a construction tendering platform. Owners, architects and their representatives publish a scope of work broken down by division and line; contractors price those same lines; the resulting bids are compared side by side.

Anyone may register. Before a company can see projects, a person here checks that it is real and is the one it says it is. We may decline a registration, and we will say why.

An account belongs to a person, not to a company, and must not be shared. People at a company are added by that company — not by us — and whoever adds them is responsible for that decision, because those are the people who can then be given access to the company's projects and bids. Being added to a company is not by itself access to its projects: each person is admitted to a project individually.

Keep your password to yourself and tell us if you think somebody else has it.

Scope, drawings, prices, questions and answers you put into ScopeLine remain yours. You give us permission to store and process them in order to run the service — including the AI processing described in our privacy policy, clause 4.

You are responsible for having the right to upload what you upload. Drawings are frequently somebody else's copyright.

A bid is commercially sensitive and the product is built accordingly. A bidder sees their own bid and never another bidder's. The party who published the scope sees the bids submitted to them.

If you are shown a bid or a price, treat it as confidential to the tender it belongs to. Do not disclose another party's pricing outside the people at your company who need it to do the work.

ScopeLine carries information between the parties to a tender. It is not the tender, and we are not a party to any contract you form. We do not award work, do not guarantee that a bid will be accepted, and take no part in disputes about scope, price, payment or performance between an owner and a contractor.

Whether a scope is complete, whether a price is right, and whether to award are decisions for the parties. What appears on screen — including anything proposed by the AI features — is information to be checked, not professional advice.

Do not use ScopeLine to break the law, to misrepresent who you are or which company you belong to, to access another company's data, to probe or circumvent the access controls, or to scrape the platform.

We may suspend access where we reasonably believe one of those is happening, or where it is necessary to protect other users' data.

We aim to keep ScopeLine running and will not pretend to guarantee it. It depends on providers we do not control, and it will occasionally be unavailable for maintenance.

Do not let a tender deadline depend on this service being up at the last minute. If a closing time matters, agree with the other party how a submission is handled if the platform is unavailable.

ScopeLine will keep changing. We may add, change or remove a feature or a workflow whenever we choose — using the product means accepting that the screen in front of you today is not a permanent one.

If a change takes away something material, we will tell you before it happens. A change to the service is not a breach of these terms, and we are not liable for the difference between what you had and what replaced it.

We may also stop offering ScopeLine altogether. If we do, we will give you notice and a window to get your own data out before access ends.

ScopeLine is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits, lost contracts or lost business arising from your use of it — including from a missed deadline, an error in scope, or a decision made on information shown here.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

You can stop using ScopeLine whenever you like; contact us to close an account. We may end access where these terms are broken. Closing an account does not erase the record of a tender that other parties relied on — see clause 5 of the privacy policy.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the applicable laws of Canada, and the courts of Ontario have jurisdiction — the same province Kolour Design Partners Inc. is incorporated in, not a separate choice made for convenience.

ScopeLine is free to use today. That may change: we may introduce fees for the service, or for parts of it, in the future.

We will not charge you unless you have had notice and you affirmatively agree to pay — continuing to use ScopeLine is not agreement to a fee. If a fee is introduced while your company has a tender open, that tender runs to its close under the terms it started on; any fee applies to what you start after that.

If we change these terms in a way that affects you materially, we will tell you, and continuing to use ScopeLine after that means you accept the change.

Not a fee, though — that is governed by clause 12 alone, and clause 12 does not let your continued use of ScopeLine stand in for your agreement to pay.

Questions: help@scopeline.ca, or by post:
Kolour Design Partners Inc.
235 Carlaw Ave, 5th Floor
Toronto, ON M4M 2S1